{"id":2675,"date":"2016-07-17T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T04:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T20:24:12","slug":"chasing-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/gallery-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chasing-the-Sun-master-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Chasing the Sun master - thumbnail\" width=\"407\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chasing-the-Sun-master-thumbnail.jpg 407w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chasing-the-Sun-master-thumbnail-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 x 4 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk. \u00a0Another British Columbia coastal scene.<\/p>\n<p>The sky takes the longest. \u00a0I use an almost-dry brush to build up the colour gradually. \u00a0The mountains were much quicker. \u00a0All the water is hand-sewn using Sulky and other embroidery threads.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to underpaint the nearest island, which would have saved me having to be as careful to cover all the silk with thread.<\/p>\n<p>Trees are always fun to do and very forgiving. \u00a0The more untidy your stitching, the more tree-like it looks. \u00a0In fact the worst idea is to try to make something that looks like a tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 x 4 inches, hand embroidery on hand-painted silk. \u00a0Another British Columbia coastal scene. The sky takes the longest. \u00a0I use an almost-dry brush to build up the colour gradually. \u00a0The mountains were much quicker. \u00a0All the water is hand-sewn using Sulky and other embroidery threads. I forgot to underpaint the nearest island, which would [&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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}