{"id":8056,"date":"2019-04-13T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:47:52","slug":"thread-drawing-fun-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8056","title":{"rendered":"Thread Drawing Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Untitled1-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled1-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s break-up season in Alaska with melting messes of mud and so much dust which is not fun for my allergies.  As I await the arrival of spring green, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been stitching up rainbows (dresses and unicorns), flowers and more.    <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Untitled2-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled2-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI sit down at my sewing machine, with an inspiration image, prepared \u00e2\u20ac\u0153canvas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (fabric sandwiched with batting) and pick a place to start.  I do my best to stitch the image with one continuous line of thread, going over lines to darken them and move through the image to create texture or words.  Then I pull out my box of markers and begin the coloring.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Untitled3-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled3-2019-04-13-23-16.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWith each thread drawing, I am growing my skills as I stitch my own story as an artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s break-up season in Alaska with melting messes of mud and so much dust which is not fun for my allergies. As I await the arrival of spring green, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been stitching up rainbows (dresses and unicorns), flowers and more. I sit down at my sewing machine, with an inspiration image, prepared \u00e2\u20ac\u0153canvas\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (fabric sandwiched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056"}],"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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}