{"id":1125,"date":"2009-08-06T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:09:56","slug":"daily-thing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/daily-thing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thing #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of textile toys I&#8217;ve made, I&#8217;ve made more or less freehand, with no real planning beyond maybe a light sketch to guide me in cutting pieces out. One of the things that happens is that what I cut out is the &#8220;wrong&#8221; size. It&#8217;s not seam allowance &#8211; I am reasonably familiar with my sewing machine and my stitching options, and my seam allowances are fine. But I find that when I get the pieces partly assembled, I don&#8217;t have quite enough room to close the piece entirely, or am worried I&#8217;ll have to do a lot of hand-sewing that won&#8217;t stand up to cat play.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I decided to go a little further, starting with a detailed sketch of a proposed toy, including all the pattern pieces, where the stitching goes, where the detailing goes, and notes about all the materials. For this example I chose a sushi. It&#8217;s a simple shape but not obvious if you want to use a sewing machine for close to all the major seams. <\/p>\n<p>I initially worked out piecing this together in my head on a bike ride, during which I realized that the way I wanted to assemble it (with a pretty good chunk of embroidery for detailing the top of the sushi roll) would involve LOTS of hand-sewn thread, which is not a great thing for a cat toy &#8211; too easy to loosen and possibly swallow. That made this object a particularly good choice for that standby of the user-interface designer: the paper prototype!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2467\/3795534746_afaf82966b_o.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Sushi pattern and model\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll be doing more with paper\u2014just for itself, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of textile toys I&#8217;ve made, I&#8217;ve made more or less freehand, with no real planning beyond maybe a light sketch to guide me in cutting pieces out. One of the things that happens is that what I cut out is the &#8220;wrong&#8221; size. It&#8217;s not seam allowance &#8211; I am reasonably familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[895,1103,1237],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","category-daily-thing","tag-paper-prototype","tag-sketches","tag-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-i9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}