{"id":2464,"date":"2015-10-06T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T18:55:29","slug":"on-a-sparkling-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"On a Sparkling Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/?page_id=794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2466 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-a-Sparkling-Sea-Medium.jpg\" alt=\"On a Sparkling Sea - Medium\" width=\"552\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-a-Sparkling-Sea-Medium.jpg 1473w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-a-Sparkling-Sea-Medium-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/On-a-Sparkling-Sea-Medium-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahoy there, mateys! \u00a0I&#8217;m just drenching you with all this water, I know. \u00a0The sparkling sea in question is the Strait of Georgia as viewed from White Rock, British Columbia. \u00a0This picture is 3 x 4 inches. The sky, mountains and distant sea are hand-painted on silk. \u00a0I started by pouring on a pale pink wash. \u00a0Then I added blue very gradually, with almost-dry silk paint.<\/p>\n<p>The nearer water is hand-stitched in various Sulky blues. \u00a0I left a space for the boat (the hull is hand-painted ribbon) then once those pieces were glued in place I filled in the bits of leftover empty space with watery stitches.<\/p>\n<p>This boat had more rigging than I have patience! \u00a0But let&#8217;s call it artistic license. \u00a0I used a regular sewing thread that split into individual fibres as thin as hair.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the little flash of red is a Canadian flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahoy there, mateys! \u00a0I&#8217;m just drenching you with all this water, I know. \u00a0The sparkling sea in question is the Strait of Georgia as viewed from White Rock, British Columbia. \u00a0This picture is 3 x 4 inches. The sky, mountains and distant sea are hand-painted on silk. \u00a0I started by pouring on a pale pink [&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\/2464"}],"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=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}