{"id":1462,"date":"2012-10-24T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:22:00","slug":"sailing-to-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"Sailing to the Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1463\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailing-to-the-island-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailing-to-the-island-222x300.jpg 222w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailing-to-the-island-758x1024.jpg 758w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sailing-to-the-island.jpg 1517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a>Which island? \u00a0 There are three. \u00a0 I know, always with the hidden meanings.<\/p>\n<p>In the foreground is Galiano and in the distance Mayne. \u00a0 Unseen is Vancouver Island, the destination I was &#8220;sailing to&#8221; on the ferry, gathering compositions like this and <a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=225\">Crumb Cottage<\/a> on the way. \u00a0 But you can imagine you&#8217;re sailing to whichever rugged, fir-treed island you fancy.<\/p>\n<p>The sky and distant island are painted, and there was a lot of background painting of the nearer island and water before I ever picked up a needle. \u00a0Then I used some good old half-crazed, needle-snapping free motion machine embroidery for the rocks and trees. \u00a0 I let some unpainted silk show through for the bare rock.<\/p>\n<p>The glints on the water are a combination of long and short stitches depending on the distance away, done by hand in shiny thread and sometimes in silk threads I stole from the frayed edge of the piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which island? \u00a0 There are three. \u00a0 I know, always with the hidden meanings. In the foreground is Galiano and in the distance Mayne. \u00a0 Unseen is Vancouver Island, the destination I was &#8220;sailing to&#8221; on the ferry, gathering compositions like this and Crumb Cottage on the way. \u00a0 But you can imagine you&#8217;re sailing [&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\/1462"}],"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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}