{"id":1828,"date":"2013-05-27T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:40:12","slug":"spring-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1828","title":{"rendered":"Spring Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Song.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1829\" alt=\"Spring Song\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Song-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Song-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Spring-Song-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\nI have a minor obsession with trying to capture cherry blossoms in thread. \u00a0I&#8217;m learning it&#8217;s helpful to keep the image small (this one&#8217;s 3 x 4 inches) and to aim for blossoms that are a bit more distant, otherwise you don&#8217;t have a hope of capturing their daintiness even in thread or ribbon. \u00a0Those real-life petals are just so very delicate.<\/p>\n<p>I used free motion machine embroidery in the background, then hand embroidery and ribbon work over the top.  You can click on the picture for a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>I do like to give credit to the trees I feature in my artwork. \u00a0This one&#8217;s in Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a minor obsession with trying to capture cherry blossoms in thread. \u00a0I&#8217;m learning it&#8217;s helpful to keep the image small (this one&#8217;s 3 x 4 inches) and to aim for blossoms that are a bit more distant, otherwise you don&#8217;t have a hope of capturing their daintiness even in thread or ribbon. \u00a0Those [&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\/1828"}],"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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}