{"id":21126,"date":"2025-08-28T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21126"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:38:14","slug":"daily_3831_-_another_embroidered_cardigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/daily_3831_-_another_embroidered_cardigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3831 &#8211; another embroidered cardigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3831_cardigan.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The embroidery club started up today. I had considered continuing with some of the ideas from an embroidery course I did a year ago, or maybe with one of the printed fabrics from the workshop this spring, but I haven&#8217;t had time to look at what I have or what I want to do. Instead I picked something where I could just get going.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/01\/25\/daily_3265_-_cardigan_selfie_attempts\/\">brown cardigan<\/a> is great but also not. It fits me well, the yarn is soft and warm, the colour is nice, the knitting is tidy. But: I made it an awkward length that I&#8217;m not happy with. It is unflattering on me, and I find it more and more difficult to ignore that. I already have a relatively long torso and shortish lower body; a too-long cardigan emphasises that even more. And the bottom hem hits right where I am broadest, which makes me look even more unproportional.<\/p>\n<p>The way it&#8217;s constructed, I can&#8217;t just unravel the bottom and make it shorter. The next best thing is to redesign it to make it <i>look<\/i> shorter, by breaking up the long vertical with something horizontal, and to draw the attention away from the hips to the waist. Hence, a discretely colourful waistband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embroidery club started up today. I had considered continuing with some of the ideas from an embroidery course I did a year ago, or maybe with one of the printed fabrics from the workshop this spring, but I haven&#8217;t had time to look at what I have or what I want to do. Instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126","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=21126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21129,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions\/21129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}