{"id":1443,"date":"2012-09-19T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:22:25","slug":"twinkle-twinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Twinkle, Twinkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1449\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverMoon-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverMoon-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/VancouverMoon.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a view of downtown Vancouver from the North Shore. \u00a0The sky is painted (poured on a shade of blue and let physics do its thing), the moon&#8217;s a swirl of gutta, and everything else is hand-stitched. \u00a0The twinkles are stitches in metallic thread.<\/p>\n<p>I love metallic thread. \u00a0It&#8217;s just glitter for grown-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The camera doesn&#8217;t see things exactly as your eyes do&#8230;it was hard to choose a photo that shows this piece accurately, when it changes so much depending on the lighting. \u00a0I decided to go with this shot with the water catching the light. \u00a0In low light the water looks darker than the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh that was a lot of little stitches. \u00a0Once you go to a certain level of detail on one building, you&#8217;ve got to do them all! \u00a0Go tiny or go home. \u00a0I hear my sewing machine calling me for the next picture or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a view of downtown Vancouver from the North Shore. \u00a0The sky is painted (poured on a shade of blue and let physics do its thing), the moon&#8217;s a swirl of gutta, and everything else is hand-stitched. \u00a0The twinkles are stitches in metallic thread. I love metallic thread. \u00a0It&#8217;s just glitter for grown-ups. The camera [&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\/1443"}],"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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}