{"id":1921,"date":"2020-07-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:06:50","slug":"great-blue-heron-embroidery-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron Crewel Embroidery, cont."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Getting closer but still needed are leaves, vines, grasses, cattails, and those little, important, final details. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When did I learn how to be patient? For some reason, I\u2019m not rushing this project, planning the next one, or getting a little bit bored like I\u2019ve done with nearly all my art with, perhaps, the exception of some colored pencil projects. I\u2019m content to stitch for an hour, set it aside for a day or two or three, and settle back down and stitch again, all the time considering what should come next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the water filled in the bottom half, I had time to reflect on why I wanted to embroider a water scene with wool. I think it\u2019s the textured, layered feeling created by physically stitching layers over layers. I don\u2019t think I would have done it justice with pencil or paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m sticking with my goal of avoiding freestyle stitching. Stitches I\u2019ve used lately include, the feather stitch, satin, stem, and long-and-short. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When did I learn how to be patient? For some reason, I\u2019m not rushing this project, planning the next one, or getting a little bit bored like I\u2019ve done with nearly all my art with, perhaps, the exception of some colored pencil projects. I\u2019m content to stitch for an hour, set it aside for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[380,360],"tags":[356,467,536,338,549],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-embroidery","tag-art","tag-bird","tag-crewel","tag-embroidery","tag-great-blue-heron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-uZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","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=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}