{"id":1843,"date":"2013-06-16T21:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T05:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:40:56","slug":"half-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"Half Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Half-Moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1844\" alt=\"Half Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Half-Moon-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Half-Moon-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Half-Moon-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Half-Moon.jpg 1454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This crescent-shaped dandelion seedhead seemed to be calling out for the &#8220;moon&#8221; treatment of a purple background to suggest a night sky.\u00a0 The stem is hand-painted ribbon, glued into place, and everything else is a combination of stitches and glued-on fluffy pieces (technical term).<\/p>\n<p>I talk about how I make the seeds in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1322\">this old post<\/a>. \u00a0One difference this time is that before attaching the seeds, I ironed them to remove the crimped look you get from splitting the threads.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when my husband walked in. \u00a0He has a knack. \u00a0&#8220;Whatcha doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ironing my seeds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All-righty then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ironing also helped me sculpt the shape of the fronds a bit. \u00a0It&#8217;s like hairdressing on a very small scale.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to get really white whites in embroidery because of the shadows the stitches create, so finally I used a few specks of Pentel dye stick in white to help the center of the seedhead stand out.<\/p>\n<p>When I get around to it there&#8217;ll be a companion piece, Full Moon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This crescent-shaped dandelion seedhead seemed to be calling out for the &#8220;moon&#8221; treatment of a purple background to suggest a night sky.\u00a0 The stem is hand-painted ribbon, glued into place, and everything else is a combination of stitches and glued-on fluffy pieces (technical term). I talk about how I make the seeds in this old [&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\/1843"}],"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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}