{"id":4274,"date":"2015-07-28T22:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:49:14","slug":"dip-net-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"Dip Net Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-IMG_1458-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1458-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA fellow artist challenged me to make a quilt of a guy fishing on the Kenai.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-IMG_1455-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1455-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salmon fishing season here in Alaska, so there have been lots of photos to inspire some quilts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-IMG_1472-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1472-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSince I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make just one quilt at a time, I created two dip net fishing quilts.  Each is 12\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-IMG_1468-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1468-2015-07-28-22-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAs I was stitching these, I kept thinking about how to crete the nets.  I looked into using netting I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve saved from fruit packaging or netting from dressmaking supplies, but it all seemed wrong.  Instead, I chose to stitch the netting free hand with black thread.  I like how these turned out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow artist challenged me to make a quilt of a guy fishing on the Kenai. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salmon fishing season here in Alaska, so there have been lots of photos to inspire some quilts. Since I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make just one quilt at a time, I created two dip net fishing quilts. Each is 12\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}