{"id":1652,"date":"2012-12-30T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2023-08-13T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:19:00","slug":"lime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"Lime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA lot of stitching went into this little half-lime. \u00a0It sits a few millimeters above the background. \u00a0That’s as flat as I could get it, and still have enough stitching for the look I wanted. \u00a0The “juice” is thanks to free motion machine embroidery with lots of Sulky Sliver clear thread.<\/p>\n

First I stretched silk in a 5-inch hoop and painted a lime-green color background. \u00a0I used gutta to keep the color to the area of the lime. \u00a0Then I chose thread colors for pith, and machine-embroidered the middle part and the dividers between segments. \u00a0 Here’s a poorly focused photo:
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\nOnce the segments were outlined, I machine-embroidered various shades of green and yellow, aiming for long loop shapes. \u00a0With the green background, you don’t need full thread coverage. When these green areas were finished I went over them with long machine stitches in the Sulky thread, leaving the central pith “dry.”<\/p>\n

Then I changed threads to my pith colors again and sewed a big circle of that around the whole thing. \u00a0I also sewed some stitches in green, to reflect the way the pith becomes greener near the skin. \u00a0I believe it was at this point my always supportive husband called me a “pith artist.”
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\nThen I cut the lime right out of the silk. \u00a0The stitching was so dense it held together well. The skin is a length of 3-mm wide ribbon, painted green. \u00a0It’s glued on around the edge, then tucked underneath and glued into place there as well. \u00a0I wanted to keep the illusion of the skin disappearing from view, just like the real thing.
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The plate is silk painted a shade of light blue. \u00a0I have a trick for doing this but forgot to take photos. \u00a0What can I say, I get excited. Basically when I stretch my silk in my particular hoops (Morgan no-slip) and pour on the paint and let it run right out to the edges, and let it dry, when I take it out of the hoop I get a nice plate effect without trying. \u00a0The white plate “edge” is the part of the silk that disappeared inside the hoop.\u00a0 I don’t understand why it doesn’t turn blue, but it doesn’t, and that’s great.<\/p>\n

The shadow is painted. \u00a0And the checkered tablecloth is checkered tablecloth material – I used up all my fake on the lime.<\/p>\n

More fruit to come in the new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of stitching went into this little half-lime. \u00a0It sits a few millimeters above the background. \u00a0That’s as flat as I could get it, and still have enough stitching for the look I wanted. \u00a0The “juice” is thanks to free motion machine embroidery with lots of Sulky Sliver clear thread. First I stretched silk […]<\/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\/1652"}],"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=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}