{"id":1869,"date":"2013-08-10T12:53:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T20:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:39:21","slug":"full-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Full Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’ve been doing some ribbon-cutting! \u00a0This piece is 3.75 x 4.5 inches. You can click on any picture to enlarge.<\/p>\n

I actually took some in-progress pictures this time!<\/p>\n

You can see I first painted a background on the silk. \u00a0I learned from a brief failed experiment, if you do the green background all over, the dark color shows through the ribbon too easily and makes it look a bit sad and dull. So I painted pale pink where I knew the flower was going to be. It also helps you see where the petals go.<\/p>\n

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\nThis was me painting the ribbons before gluing them on. \u00a0The paint really shoots up the ribbon as soon as you touch the brush to it, and I could tell I would have no control over where it would go. \u00a0I didn’t want to make a big painting mistake after doing all that painstaking gluing.<\/p>\n

After painting them with my Pebeo silk paint I ironed them to seal the paint. Also, it’s much easier to work with ribbon that’s flat.<\/p>\n

I cut the ribbons to what seemed like the right shapes and glued them to the background with Aleene’s acid free tacky glue. Took a while.<\/p>\n

For the middle part, I did lots of French knots in different shades of yellow. \u00a0I was aiming for imperfect knots (a good job really) because I was trying to make it look like nature, not embroidery. \u00a0I used non-shiny yellows for a dusty,polleny look.<\/p>\n

Finally…
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\nI wanted to make the little anthers spring out from the picture towards the viewer a bit, like they do in real life. \u00a0I started by tying a big old knot in my yellow thread. \u00a0This one’s about five knots in one.<\/p>\n

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\nMade a single knot next to the big knot. This can be further along, depending on how long you want the filament to be.
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\nSnipped the ends off. That makes an anther.
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\nInserted the needle from the front of the fabric. It stops at the little knot, so the anther appears to be springing out a bit. Sometimes I still used little securing stitches to hold the filaments in place, especially on the upper part because gravity makes them flop down.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been doing some ribbon-cutting! \u00a0This piece is 3.75 x 4.5 inches. You can click on any picture to enlarge. I actually took some in-progress pictures this time! You can see I first painted a background on the silk. \u00a0I learned from a brief failed experiment, if you do the green background all over, the […]<\/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\/1869"}],"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=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}