{"id":16851,"date":"2023-02-16T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16851"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:34:08","slug":"daily_2933_-_playing_with_embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/02\/16\/daily_2933_-_playing_with_embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2933 &#8211; playing with embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2933_embroidery_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2933_embroidery_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe dogma embroidery, continued. (Add chain stitch. Use a colour you don&#8217;t normally use. Add a pattern. Echo a part of your motif elsewhere. Emphasize a part of your work with a similar colour.)<\/p>\n<p>As a piece of finished embroidery, it&#8217;s junk. A jerky, unbalanced, random agglomeration of parts that don&#8217;t go well together. Some of the later steps helped pull the earlier ones together a little bit, but it&#8217;s still very obvious that there is no overall design or composition.<\/p>\n<p>As a creative approach, it&#8217;s been great. Letting go of all expectations regarding the outcome and just going with the flow, fitting in whatever curveball I&#8217;m thrown as best I can. Later steps overlapping with earlier stitches. It doesn&#8217;t matter what the result looks like. This doesn&#8217;t need to be either beautiful or useful.<\/p>\n<p>As a learning process, it&#8217;s been interesting. I&#8217;ve learned &#8211; again &#8211; that achieving apparent randomness is hard. The seed stitches tend to start pulling into lines and naturally distribute themselves evenly. I&#8217;m not sure how to make them uneven for real. I also learned that I like the tangle that the seed stitch makes on the rear side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dogma embroidery, continued. (Add chain stitch. Use a colour you don&#8217;t normally use. Add a pattern. Echo a part of your motif elsewhere. Emphasize a part of your work with a similar colour.) As a piece of finished embroidery, it&#8217;s junk. A jerky, unbalanced, random agglomeration of parts that don&#8217;t go well together. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16851","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\/16851","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=16851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16858,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16851\/revisions\/16858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}