{"id":10579,"date":"2021-06-15T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2021-06-19T07:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T14:36:49","slug":"one-square-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/one-square-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"One square at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This seems like a monumental effort but I am embarking on it. I am not a quilter, but I do stitch and what is quilting, but stitching through multiple layers? I decided to start with the stars. And I used Jude&#8217;s method of drawing directly on the cloth with a pen. Then used initially two strands of floss, switching to one about halfway through. It is split backstitch. I don&#8217;t know if I like it &#8211; the green is a little too intense and the stitching is somehow not pleasing to the eye. But it&#8217;s done now, and I&#8217;m moving on to the next square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2924.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2924.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2924-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Star square quilted, front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2923.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2923.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img_2923-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Star square quilted, back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems like a monumental effort but I am embarking on it. I am not a quilter, but I do stitch and what is quilting, but stitching through multiple layers? I decided to start&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-october-cloth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}