{"id":1603,"date":"2012-12-09T22:47:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:19:48","slug":"off-to-rathtrevor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Off to Rathtrevor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1604 alignnone\" title=\"Off to Rathtrevor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Off-to-Rathtrevor-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Off-to-Rathtrevor-1024x527.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Off-to-Rathtrevor-300x154.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Off-to-Rathtrevor.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>This is the view on approaching Rathtrevor Beach, Parksville. \u00a0The split log fences in the distance line walking trails.<\/p>\n<p>The sky, mountains, and distant trees are painted. \u00a0The fences are hand stitched and everything else is free motion machine embroidery, with occasional hand stitching wherever I &#8220;missed a bit.&#8221; \u00a0For the field in the distance, I machine-sewed, then roughed it up with an emery board. \u00a0This makes some threads stick up, which I then trim, and that helps give the whole field a more blurred, far-away look.<\/p>\n<p>You never know what you&#8217;ll get by way of feedback on your work. \u00a0Somewhere around ten hours of labor in, my husband commented he liked my &#8220;split-ends tree&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>You know what, I&#8217;ll take it. \u00a0That tree <em>does<\/em> have a case of split ends.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Can you find my signature? I tried to blend it in with the scenery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the view on approaching Rathtrevor Beach, Parksville. \u00a0The split log fences in the distance line walking trails. The sky, mountains, and distant trees are painted. \u00a0The fences are hand stitched and everything else is free motion machine embroidery, with occasional hand stitching wherever I &#8220;missed a bit.&#8221; \u00a0For the field in the distance, [&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\/1603"}],"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=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}