{"id":240,"date":"2010-07-30T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2023-08-12T17:27:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:27:18","slug":"centre-of-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Centre of Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-241\" title=\"Centre of Attention\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CentreOfAttention_500_62681-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CentreOfAttention_500_62681-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/CentreOfAttention_500_62681.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/> I hope you keep sunglasses by your computer! \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/gallery-co.html\">a larger version<\/a> if you&#8217;re feeling brave.<\/p>\n<p>After painting everything an incredibly bright shade of blue, I did machine sewing of leaves in the background. I thought I was going to be able to keep machine sewing the whole thing. (I often have silly thoughts like this about my pictures). Predictably some areas started looking a bit too casual, so I unpicked a little bit and completed the work by hand.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a commitment as you then have to bring the rest of it up to the same level of detail. But I think hand sewing is a better choice to capture quirks that I&#8217;m not skilled enough to convey with the machine, like the thinning of a branch as it goes along.<\/p>\n<p>I almost left a needle in the patient on this one! \u00a0I searched my table until I knew the only place it could be was in the picture. \u00a0There it was, hanging out of the back! \u00a0Saved for the next operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you keep sunglasses by your computer! \u00a0Here&#8217;s a larger version if you&#8217;re feeling brave. After painting everything an incredibly bright shade of blue, I did machine sewing of leaves in the background. I thought I was going to be able to keep machine sewing the whole thing. (I often have silly thoughts like [&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\/240"}],"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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}