{"id":1928,"date":"2020-07-27T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:44:00","slug":"finished-great-blue-hereon-crewel-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1928","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Great Blue Heron Crewel Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It measures 9\u201dx12\u201d and is stitched on gray linen with Appletons wool and a bunch of no-name crewel wool threads. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I finished this embroidery. I stitched for over five weeks, many hours per week. Whew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started out with a tidy arrangement of wools. Near the end, I grabbed whatever I needed and have a mess to prove it. I kept track of my stitches on my original sketch. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Working with wool and linen is a treat. They go together perfectly, and I never tire of the combination. I\u2019ve purchased some linen twill, a traditional crewel fabric, and I\u2019m looking forward to trying it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late afternoon sun often visits my embroidery projects. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was so involved with this project that I didn\u2019t spend much time planning another one. So now, what should it be? I think I\u2019ll start sketching and see what calls out to me. In the meantime, I need to learn how to frame this project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished this embroidery. I stitched for over five weeks, many hours per week. Whew! Working with wool and linen is a treat. They go together perfectly, and I never tire of the combination. I\u2019ve purchased some linen twill, a traditional crewel fabric, and I\u2019m looking forward to trying it out. I was so involved […]<\/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":[380,360,11],"tags":[356,536,338,549,550],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-embroidery","category-finished-object","tag-art","tag-crewel","tag-embroidery","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-landscape-bird"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","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=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}