{"id":2453,"date":"2015-09-13T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:56:11","slug":"vignette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"Vignette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vignette-original.jpg\" alt=\"Vignette - original\" width=\"368\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vignette-original.jpg 884w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vignette-original-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vignette-original-716x1024.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a>This picture is 2.25 x 3.25 inches, but the painted and stitched areas are smaller than that. The eagle-eyed among you will spot my almost invisible signature in the bottom left-hand corner.<\/p>\n<p>Usually I do all sorts of colour tests and stitch-securing immediately off to the side of the piece, which I conceal behind the mat when framing. But I wanted to challenge myself to do a more &#8220;tidy&#8221; piece. The background trees, mountains and sky are painted, and the rest is hand-stitched. The boat hull is a piece of hand-painted ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the name Vignette because of the way the picture fades in at the edges. But it seems that vignette is also the word for a boat licence in Europe. So, I&#8217;m making puns even without trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is 2.25 x 3.25 inches, but the painted and stitched areas are smaller than that. The eagle-eyed among you will spot my almost invisible signature in the bottom left-hand corner. Usually I do all sorts of colour tests and stitch-securing immediately off to the side of the piece, which I conceal behind the [&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\/2453"}],"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=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}