{"id":1278,"date":"2012-02-25T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T04:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:27:43","slug":"aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Aloha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1280\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aloha_44941-148x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This miniature is based on a view from a beach in Hawaii, but I guess it could be anywhere you like to imagine. \u00a0 The sky, distant island (Kahoolawe), and blue-coloured water are hand-painted, and so is the sand at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s machine stitching to create the look of the white water, and some lint from chopped-up wool glued to the very edge of the water. \u00a0It helps bulk up the wave and hopefully make it look like it&#8217;s just about to break over your toes. \u00a0Then a hand-stitched boat and some tiny stitches in shiny invisible thread to make glints on the water, which don&#8217;t show in this photo.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t mention Hawaii without recommending slack key guitarist Makana. \u00a0His music&#8217;s featured on the film The Descendants which I (wrongly) haven&#8217;t seen yet, or look for him on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This miniature is based on a view from a beach in Hawaii, but I guess it could be anywhere you like to imagine. \u00a0 The sky, distant island (Kahoolawe), and blue-coloured water are hand-painted, and so is the sand at the bottom. There&#8217;s machine stitching to create the look of the white water, and [&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\/1278"}],"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=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}