{"id":3016,"date":"2020-01-05T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T00:34:41","slug":"kahului-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"Kahului &#8211; in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kahului-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3017\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kahului-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kahului-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kahului-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aloha!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little Hawaiian scene I&#8217;ve been working on.  The finished area will be about 4.5 inches x 3 and a bit inches.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still fine-tuning the painted background.  I dipped the end of a toothpick in paint and used that to draw the shape of the mountains, to try to get it something close to accurate.  Even my brushes are not that fine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll see I&#8217;ve already stitched some of the foreground threads, which helps me determine how strong I need to go on the background colours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rough underpainting in the foreground will end up mostly obscured by thread.   I&#8217;ll also unpick those bits of thread I used to mark the horizon line and corners.   It will all be hand-stitched and will take a while, but that means all the more of these evening-and-weekend &#8220;trips to Hawaii&#8221; for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha! A little Hawaiian scene I&#8217;ve been working on. The finished area will be about 4.5 inches x 3 and a bit inches. I&#8217;m still fine-tuning the painted background. I dipped the end of a toothpick in paint and used that to draw the shape of the mountains, to try to get it something close [&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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016"}],"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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}