{"id":1097,"date":"2011-08-15T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:10:18","slug":"attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1101\" title=\"Attraction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Attraction_700_13501-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Attraction_700_13501-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Attraction_700_13501.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>This is a view from the seawall in downtown Vancouver. \u00a0I see the water and the rocks as reaching out to each other.<\/p>\n<p>The water is painted on silk and then the pebbles\/rocks are free motion machine embroidered. \u00a0There&#8217;s a little bit of hand-sewing of shiny or &#8220;invisible&#8221; threads that can only be seen in certain lighting and helps make the rocks look wet where they touch the water. Oh and a tiny bit of hand-sewing of foam on the water in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>I got myself a daylight lamp and I love it. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been struggling to get enough light in the right position to do artwork after sundown in what I&#8217;ll call my (ahem) &#8220;work zone&#8221; in our new apartment. \u00a0 100W equivalent baby! \u00a0 Only wish I&#8217;d gone for it sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a view from the seawall in downtown Vancouver. \u00a0I see the water and the rocks as reaching out to each other. The water is painted on silk and then the pebbles\/rocks are free motion machine embroidered. \u00a0There&#8217;s a little bit of hand-sewing of shiny or &#8220;invisible&#8221; threads that can only be seen in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}