{"id":21330,"date":"2025-10-23T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21330"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:34:07","slug":"daily_3887_-_improvised_materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/10\/23\/daily_3887_-_improvised_materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3887 &#8211; improvised materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3887_embroidery_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/daily_3859_-_inspired_by_rudebrant\/\">My sketch<\/a> for this project had rough, thick lines for the oval shapes, and I wanted to recreate those in embroidery. Paper string, maybe, or a thin ribbon, couched. That&#8217;s where I paused at the last embroidery club meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening two weeks, I had completely forgotten this plan, and was only reminded of it when I took out and unfolded the fabric. I did not remember it at all when packing my backpack this morning. Grabbed the embroidery project bag and that was that. No paper string.<\/p>\n<p>Not willing to compromise with my vision, and also not interested in making up some random time-filler task for today, I improvised. Went on a material hunt through the community centre. Found a crumpled-up paper bag. Cut off a thin strip, coloured it mostly-black with an ordinary pen, and twisted it into my own black paper string. Not as durable as the store-bought stuff, but it doesn&#8217;t need to hold up to anything, so it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3887_embroidery_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sketch for this project had rough, thick lines for the oval shapes, and I wanted to recreate those in embroidery. Paper string, maybe, or a thin ribbon, couched. That&#8217;s where I paused at the last embroidery club meeting. In the intervening two weeks, I had completely forgotten this plan, and was only reminded of [&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-21330","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\/21330","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=21330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21333,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions\/21333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}