{"id":1936,"date":"2020-08-04T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:35:49","slug":"new-embroidery-female-purple-finch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"New Embroidery, Female Purple Finch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If it wasn\u2019t for the texture created by stitching wool on fabric, I\u2019d be happy with a drawing or painting, but there\u2019s something about a certain scene that makes me think \u201cwool!\u201d Embroidery is a little like carving or sculpting, I imagine, where you can see an image emerging that has dimension. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will that bright lime green background be a good choice? So far, I like it but it\u2019s awful to photograph..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Lately my process is something like this: my husband and I venture out of doors to take photos, I find something interesting\u2014usually a critter or plant\u2014 and take many pictures, go through a period of forgetting about it, then open up my photos, find one out of the many that appeals to me, do a few sketches, and start planning a project. I usually add in details, plants, and other important pieces from other photos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Will it be an embroidery or a drawing or simply stay a photo? Time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If it wasn\u2019t for the texture created by stitching wool on fabric, I\u2019d be happy with a drawing or painting, but there\u2019s something about a certain scene that makes me think \u201cwool!\u201d Embroidery is a little like carving or sculpting, I imagine, where you can see an image emerging that has dimension. Lately my process […]<\/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":[356,467,536,338,551],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-embroidery","tag-art","tag-bird","tag-crewel","tag-embroidery","tag-purple-finch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","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=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}