{"id":16274,"date":"2022-10-17T21:32:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:40:16","slug":"daily_2812_-_applique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/10\/17\/daily_2812_-_applique\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2812 – applique"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe fourth embroidery class out of five. Today’s topic: appliqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n

I took a picture of my early design, when it was just wrinkled pieces of fabric laid out on top of each other, and then forgot to photograph the final result. For once I actually finished the day’s exercise during class. Almost… I stayed for an extra five minutes after the end. And then I felt like I was keeping the teacher from cleaning up the classroom so I rushed to pack up and leave, and photography didn’t even enter my mind. I’ll have to share a photo later because I was rather pleased with the result, especially after only an hour and a half of working on it. It’s got little seed pearls and everything.<\/p>\n

Apart from the background, the material for this piece was all scraps of fabric that have been waiting for their time in the scrap bag in my fabric chest. I remember the scrap of green (which is the same fabric as the dark yellow one but seen from the reverse side – some kind of fancy expensive curtain fabric) coming home with Ingrid from daycare for some reason, and then never getting used. I only had an irregular piece, about 15 x 20 centimetres. Never found a use for it, but I saved it anyway – together with other treasures such as some smurf blue polyester with a Hello Kitty print and white polyester fleece with cats on, etc. I had some vague idea that the kids might want them for some random art project. Now they have outgrown the age of random art from scrap, but I haven’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fourth embroidery class out of five. Today’s topic: appliqu\u00e9. I took a picture of my early design, when it was just wrinkled pieces of fabric laid out on top of each other, and then forgot to photograph the final result. For once I actually finished the day’s exercise during class. Almost… I stayed for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274","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=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16277,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions\/16277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}