{"id":797,"date":"2009-02-16T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T06:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-02-16T23:59:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T06:59:52","slug":"thing-16-trying-out-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/thing-16-trying-out-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Thing 16: Trying Out Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making the Frederick quilt reminded me how much I&#8217;d like to have better options for decorating or giving features to small stuffed toys without having to do a ton of cutting (as for the 3 separate pieces for each of Frederick&#8217;s eyes) or gluing (to add on plastic googly eyes). A couple of weeks ago, I ordered an adorable book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Doodle-Stitching-Fresh-Embroidery-Beginners\/dp\/1600590616\" target=\"blank\">Doodle Stitching, by Aimee Ray<\/a>, and tonight I copied one of her illustrations and used a single stitch (backstitch) to embroider it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caitlinburke\/3288884785\/\" title=\"Thing 16: Embroidery by caitlinburke, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3344\/3288884785_b9e45edf0b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Thing 16: Embroidery\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caitlinburke\/3288884785\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">larger<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know how to explain this Victorian streak I&#8217;m manifesting, but this month is turning out to be a good excuse to try out lots of little things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the Frederick quilt reminded me how much I&#8217;d like to have better options for decorating or giving features to small stuffed toys without having to do a ton of cutting (as for the 3 separate pieces for each of Frederick&#8217;s eyes) or gluing (to add on plastic googly eyes). A couple of weeks ago, [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[48,147,364,415,1342],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thing-a-day","tag-aimee-ray","tag-bird","tag-doodle-stitching","tag-embroidery","tag-thing-a-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-cR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}