{"id":17418,"date":"2023-07-03T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2023-11-03T23:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:34:25","slug":"daily_3066_-_a_more_fun_project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/daily_3066_-_a_more_fun_project\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3066 &#8211; a more fun project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After four days of tedious, boring, fiddly mending, I need a project that is fun and creative and enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough this one I&#8217;ve also been thinking about and sort of procrastinating about for a long time, but for completely the opposite reason than the damn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/06\/29\/daily_3062_-_long-procrastinated_mend\/\">cardigan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/07\/02\/daily_3065_-_finally_done_with_the_cardigan_facing\/\">facing<\/a>, but for the completely opposite reason. <\/p>\n<p>This is an old skirt in some sort of crafts-woven wool mix fabric that I bought at Spitalfields Market ages ago, from a small-scale maker. I still like it but at the same time I feel it&#8217;s getting a bit boring. Needs more bling, more pizzazz. So I&#8217;ve been thinking about decorating it somehow.<\/p>\n<p>But how? Applique? Lace? Embroidery? Too much wide-open choice, too many options, so I&#8217;ve done nothing.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I bought a small bit of glorious patterned silk fabric that I thought I might use for some kind of applique, but it never felt quite right, so the project has been languishing at the back of my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiration is never going to simply appear so I just have to get started. I&#8217;m thinking of organic shapes in a vaguely flower-like design, centred around the right side seam. (Sloppy photos today, sorry &#8211; I was focusing more on the design than on documenting it properly.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3066_embroidery_planning_5.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Going all in on the patterned silk would be too much of a good thing, I think, so I bought wool in matching colours to combine it with. The silk gets to set both the colour scheme and the overall tone &#8211; blingy! &#8211; but some of the &#8220;petals&#8221; will be in wool. In a way it will make it visually noisier but also less overwhelming I hope.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3066_embroidery_planning_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3066_embroidery_planning_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3066_embroidery_planning_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3066_embroidery_planning_4.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four days of tedious, boring, fiddly mending, I need a project that is fun and creative and enjoyable. Funnily enough this one I&#8217;ve also been thinking about and sort of procrastinating about for a long time, but for completely the opposite reason than the damn cardigan facing, but for the completely opposite reason. This [&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-17418","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\/17418","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=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17423,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions\/17423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}