{"id":20509,"date":"2025-05-10T20:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20509"},"modified":"2025-05-12T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:25:42","slug":"daily_3721_-_embroidery_fix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/05\/10\/daily_3721_-_embroidery_fix-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3721 &#8211; embroidery fix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Stockholm-themed embroidery has been finished, more or less, since a burst of concerted effort ahead of the workshop at the end of March. Since then I&#8217;ve been working with the printed fabrics we made in that workshop, and the Stockholm piece has been languishing in a bag.<\/p>\n<p>The embroidery club has its last session for the season in two weeks, and we vaguely discussed that we should bring the works we&#8217;ve finished this season, show them off a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that I haven&#8217;t actually finished anything, I set myself a new deadline. I will finish mounting the Stockholm piece, and I will make an effort to finish and mount the green prints plus organza series as well.<\/p>\n<p>Step one: block and stretch the piece. It turns out that, even though I had a grid to work off, it&#8217;s somehow become slanted nevertheless. Fitting it into a rectangular frame like this would be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, step zero point five: add a narrow wedge of bushes and walls and water to the edge to square it off. It doesn&#8217;t blend in 100%, especially the shadow on the water, but nobody&#8217;s going to be looking that closely at the edges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3721_embroidery_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3721_embroidery_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Stockholm-themed embroidery has been finished, more or less, since a burst of concerted effort ahead of the workshop at the end of March. Since then I&#8217;ve been working with the printed fabrics we made in that workshop, and the Stockholm piece has been languishing in a bag. The embroidery club has its last session [&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-20509","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\/20509","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=20509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20509\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}