{"id":1917,"date":"2020-07-07T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2020-07-07T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:33:57","slug":"great-blue-heron-crewel-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Crewel Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started my own crewel embroidery based on a photo I took a few weeks ago. This is slow going. I started this a few weeks ago and only have one corner filled in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1011\" data-attachment-id=\"1914\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1914\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2203,2175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1594071660&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.041666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4782\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782-1024x1011.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782-1024x1011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4782-768x758.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My goals are to use my own design and to stitch with identifiable stitches as much as possible. So far, I\u2019ve used laid work for backgrounds, Cretan for leaves, buttonhole, satin, and long and short stitches for the bird, and split and stem stitches for outlines, branches, and details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-attachment-id=\"1915\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1915\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1593255526&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4770\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4770-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m using Appletons crewel wool and a variety of wools from an older kit. The fabric is linen. I chose to make this 9\u201dx12\u201d, and now I\u2019m wondering what I was thinking. I guess I\u2019m practicing the art of patience along with the art of embroidery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" data-attachment-id=\"1916\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1916\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2845,2154\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPad mini 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1592775688&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.041666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4767\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767-1024x775.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767-1024x775.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_4767-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started my own crewel embroidery based on a photo I took a few weeks ago. This is slow going. I started this a few weeks ago and only have one corner filled in. My goals are to use my own design and to stitch with identifiable stitches as much as possible. So far, I\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,360],"tags":[467,536,338,549,548,286],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-embroidery","tag-bird","tag-crewel","tag-embroidery","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-linen","tag-wool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-uV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}