{"id":2893,"date":"2018-03-17T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2018-03-17T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T22:33:55","slug":"light-on-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Light on the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threadedviews.com\/main\/gallery-9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/choice-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"choice\" width=\"596\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/choice-1024x786.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/choice-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/choice-768x589.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/choice.jpg 2038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 x 7 inches, a view of the North Shore from Burrard Inlet.\u00a0 The sky and mountains are hand-painted.\u00a0 I also did some underpainting of the water, trees and sandbars.\u00a0 Then I glued on thread lint and did some stitching for the line of trees on the left, and all the water and sandbars are hand-stitched.<\/p>\n<p>The mini-lighthouse is a Frankenstein&#8217;s monster mix of thread, hand-painted ribbon and Tyvek.\u00a0 When I first glued on the little strip of Tyvek representing the whitest part of the lighthouse, it looked too bright and &#8220;stuck on&#8221; (even though it is).\u00a0 So I poked it with a needle all over, which made it look slightly distressed, dimmed the brightness and made it look much more like it belongs.\u00a0 I may or may not have discovered this by accident during a moment of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>I also found it best to sew the stilts of the lighthouse with lots of horizontal stitches.\u00a0 A few long diagonal stitches might seem like the best way, but I found it looked too detached from the background.\u00a0 In fact the stilts have barnacles attached, so I think the irregularity of horizontal stitches helps suggest that variation in colour and thickness and makes it look more real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 x 7 inches, a view of the North Shore from Burrard Inlet.\u00a0 The sky and mountains are hand-painted.\u00a0 I also did some underpainting of the water, trees and sandbars.\u00a0 Then I glued on thread lint and did some stitching for the line of trees on the left, and all the water and sandbars are [&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\/2893"}],"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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2904,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}