{"id":18034,"date":"2023-10-21T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18034"},"modified":"2023-10-28T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:40:08","slug":"daily_3171_-_the_skirt_embroidery_project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/10\/21\/daily_3171_-_the_skirt_embroidery_project\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3171 &#8211; the skirt embroidery project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3171_skirt_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve embroidered all the pieces I was going to embroider, so today I started assembling the whole project by stitching the appliqu\u00e9 pieces to the skirt, both the embroidered wool and the patterned silk that was the starting point of the design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3171_skirt_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The more I looked at the big picture, though, the more I started having second thoughts. Not about the embroidered appliqu\u00e9 pieces, that I had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/daily_3133_-_the_embroidery_is_sprawling\/\">hesitated about<\/a>. No, those actually go together well, in my opinion. It&#8217;s the silk pieces that I now don&#8217;t like. Compared to the rest, they look garish and loud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3171_skirt_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I went on and started attaching the pieces, but the more I did, the less I liked it. I didn&#8217;t even get to the end of the seam around the first silk piece before I decided to kick them out of this project. I&#8217;ve got enough of the wool fabrics to make replacement pieces for the ones that were silk in my original design. It&#8217;s going to be better that way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3171_skirt_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve embroidered all the pieces I was going to embroider, so today I started assembling the whole project by stitching the appliqu\u00e9 pieces to the skirt, both the embroidered wool and the patterned silk that was the starting point of the design. The more I looked at the big picture, though, the more I started [&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-18034","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\/18034","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=18034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18037,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}