{"id":16161,"date":"2022-09-26T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16161"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:34:09","slug":"daily_2791_-_embroidery_course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/09\/26\/daily_2791_-_embroidery_course\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2791 &#8211; embroidery course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2791_embroidery_portrait.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe embroidery course I signed up for as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/08\/24\/daily_2758_-_new_habits\/\">one of my habits and commitments<\/a> started today. The theme of the course is &#8220;free-form embroidery&#8221;, i.e. embroidery without a pre-prepared design. Making things up as you go.<\/p>\n<p>For this first session (out of five) our teacher threw us in at the deep end and tasked us with embroidering a self-portrait. Take a selfie with your phone and then translate it into embroidery &#8211; as if we were drawing a picture with needle and thread instead of a pencil. The task felt very challenging beforehand, since I don&#8217;t think of myself as particularly good at drawing even with a pencil. But we were there to have fun and, as the teacher kept reminding us, it&#8217;s not like middle school where we will be graded on our work. Nobody will check the tidiness of the rear of our embroidered piece; nobody will comment if the stitches are uneven.<\/p>\n<p>We had just over an hour of stitching time and by the end of it I just had a few contours. No eyes, no mouth, no hair. But it&#8217;s clearly the beginnings of a face, and a reasonable likeness &#8211; if a stranger had to pick the model out of the whole class, they would likely pick me. So I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it. I had expected to get much further in the time we had. I&#8217;ll have to finish it at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embroidery course I signed up for as one of my habits and commitments started today. The theme of the course is &#8220;free-form embroidery&#8221;, i.e. embroidery without a pre-prepared design. Making things up as you go. For this first session (out of five) our teacher threw us in at the deep end and tasked us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16162,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions\/16162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}