{"id":1233,"date":"2012-01-01T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:28:29","slug":"sky-scrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Sky Scrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1237\" title=\"Sky Scrapers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SkyScrapers_33941-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SkyScrapers_33941-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SkyScrapers_33941.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stuff grew on my dune!<\/p>\n<p>I did some background sewing using the machine but most of the grasses were done by hand. \u00a0I also had to split threads a lot of times into a single ply, to be able to get those narrow points.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned you can run an unthreaded machine needle over painted sand or rock areas to give them more texture. Also not a bad way to make distant footprints or tracks on sand or snow. \u00a0For even more impact, thread with a thickish thread, run over the areas you want, and then unpick.<\/p>\n<p>This dune is in South Shields, north-east England, also excellent for curries, fish and chips, and ice cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff grew on my dune! I did some background sewing using the machine but most of the grasses were done by hand. \u00a0I also had to split threads a lot of times into a single ply, to be able to get those narrow points. I&#8217;ve learned you can run an unthreaded machine needle over painted [&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\/1233"}],"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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}