{"id":17169,"date":"2023-05-09T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17169"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:34:09","slug":"daily_3012_-_glasses_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/daily_3012_-_glasses_case\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3012 &#8211; glasses case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My current embroidery project is a glasses case. I don&#8217;t need my glasses often at all but they still deserve a nice case.<\/p>\n<p>The starting point was a technique I saw posted on Instagram, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cq-b3PhKGwj\/?hl=en\">stacked running stitch<\/a>. It looks like satin stitch at first glance, but builds up very differently. Instead of making one branch at a time, the yarn goes all the way across the motif, building up all the branches simultaneously, a millimetre at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of something purely abstract, I did the stitching in the shape of a coral.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3012_embroidery.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It sounded interesting, and was definitely interesting to work with. It took a lot more concentration than I had thought. The running stitches had to be kept straight (probably easier on a fabric with visible threads) or the lines would start to lean or curve. And I also had to think about the branching all the time, to make sure they didn&#8217;t run into each other, or all end at the same time, or all split at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is perhaps technically impressive rather than beautiful. It was an interesting experiment, though. I think it might have worked better for a purely abstract design after all.<\/p>\n<p>The motif on the rear is also a coral, but a quick and simple one in feather stitch. In all its simplicity I think it looks better than the laborious one on the front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current embroidery project is a glasses case. I don&#8217;t need my glasses often at all but they still deserve a nice case. The starting point was a technique I saw posted on Instagram, called stacked running stitch. It looks like satin stitch at first glance, but builds up very differently. Instead of making one [&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-17169","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\/17169","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=17169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17175,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions\/17175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}