{"id":20514,"date":"2025-05-11T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20514"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T20:10:11","slug":"daily_3722_-_embroidery_mounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/05\/11\/daily_3722_-_embroidery_mounted\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3722 – embroidery, mounted"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A deadline was exactly what was needed. I had all the materials – all I needed was a nudge, and a whole lot of patience.<\/p>\n

First: pinning. With lots and lots of pins. Note to self: don’t try to do this wearing a knitted sweater, because those pins catch on everything.<\/p>\n

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Stretched and pinned to a sheet of foam board, it’s already looking nice:<\/p>\n

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Lacing it from the reverse side.<\/p>\n

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You really don’t want any knots in the lacing thread, because they make it near impossible to tighten the lacing, so I ended up working with 5-meter pieces of thread. Trying to keep them from tangling was an exercise in patience.<\/p>\n

It reminded me of an old Estonian folk tale, where Clever Hans and Old Nick were both going to sew something. Probably Hans challenging Old Nick, as he often did. Old Nick had thick and clumsy fingers, so he asked Hans to thread a needle for him. Hans threaded his own needle with a normal length of thread. For Old Nick, he first gave a very short piece, and when he complained, gave him a very long piece so he had to run back and forth across the yard for each stitch. I felt like old dumb Nick with my long piece of thread here.<\/p>\n

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Even with all my stretching and blocking, there’s a tiny bit of puckering in the blue background fabric. It’s only noticeable with the light coming from the side and putting the puckers in relief. When it’s hanging on the wall, I’m sure it won’t even be noticeable. For the photo at the top, I turned it with the long edge towards the window, and that already made a difference.<\/p>\n

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Now I want to frame it on a green background fabric. That’ll be a project for next weekend, when the fabric has arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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