{"id":670,"date":"2010-12-29T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2023-08-12T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:18:30","slug":"springtime-spice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Springtime Spice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-669\" title=\"Springtime_9456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Springtime_9456-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Springtime_9456-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Springtime_9456.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Thought I&#8217;d show you some lint I&#8217;m preparing for a new cherry blossom picture. &nbsp;I did the last one in stitching but I&#8217;ve been wanting to try it in lint. &nbsp;I think it will have a softer look, which seems right for the subject. &nbsp;There will be some stitching of the branches though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already painted a sky-blue background and glued down a few blossoms &#8220;in draft&#8221; as pictured, to see if my colours look okay. &nbsp; Then I chopped up some strands of thread very finely (taking care not to sneeze : )). &nbsp; Next comes the gluing&#8230;currently I&#8217;m sticking lumps of lint down onto blobs of acid-free tacky glue, unless I run out of patience and get some spray version of the glue.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see which comes first, the actual season of spring, or the finished piece!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-675\" title=\"SpringtimeSky_9458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpringtimeSky_94581-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpringtimeSky_94581-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpringtimeSky_94581.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I&#8217;d show you some lint I&#8217;m preparing for a new cherry blossom picture. &nbsp;I did the last one in stitching but I&#8217;ve been wanting to try it in lint. &nbsp;I think it will have a softer look, which seems right for the subject. &nbsp;There will be some stitching of the branches though. I&#8217;ve already [&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\/670"}],"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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.threadedviews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}