{"id":2403,"date":"2013-09-17T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2013-09-17T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:03:58","slug":"the-glorious-straight-stitch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"The Glorious Straight Stitch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2404\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2404\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2404\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"450,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1379353099&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Straight stitch sample 4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?fit=450%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2404\" alt=\"Straight stitch sample 4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?resize=450%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Straight-stitch-sample-4.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Auditioning for &#8216;red&#8217; turned up\u00a0a piece of\u00a0red lame, which I&#8217;ve never been able to use<\/em> <\/span>&#8211; someone gave it to me I think &#8211; although it frays easily and in the past I&#8217;ve\u00a0found it very\u00a0hard to handle and avoided it.\u00a0\u00a0With bonding, though,\u00a0new avenues open, so I bonded some on the straight (upper RH)\u00a0and some on the cross\u00a0 (upper LH)\u00a0 Bonded, this material handled a lot better than I dared hope &#8211; no threads seemed to shift at all in either sample while I stitched, so that&#8217;s encouraging&#8230;.. but I couldn&#8217;t get a photo where each section of the lame photographed equally well, seemingly\u00a0because they&#8217;re on different angles.<\/p>\n<p>The lower sample is a better shot of the sample\u00a0in the previous post, and, so back to the cutting table and iron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Auditioning for &#8216;red&#8217; turned up\u00a0a piece of\u00a0red lame, which I&#8217;ve never been able to use &#8211; someone gave it to me I think &#8211; although it frays easily and in the past I&#8217;ve\u00a0found it very\u00a0hard to handle and avoided it.\u00a0\u00a0With bonding, though,\u00a0new avenues open, so I bonded some on the straight (upper RH)\u00a0and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-CL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}