{"id":7552,"date":"2022-07-27T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2022-07-27T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:21:20","slug":"this-ones-going-to-take-a-while-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=7552","title":{"rendered":"This One&#8217;s Going To Take A While, Continued&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I posted the previous article on this project just a little over a month ago, June 22nd.   Though I&#8217;m putting as much time in as possible, it is taking at least as long as I thought it would.  I did estimate the number of concentric square units wrongly, but essentially 11 rows of 11 units works out at 121, so I must have just transposed figures, which I do tend to do a little &#8211; but didn&#8217;t realise until I put the whole thing up on the design wall today and understood why I was finding I had a few more than I expected to finish in the outer row.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" data-attachment-id=\"7548\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=7548\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,255\" 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;0&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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?fit=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?fit=500%2C255&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?resize=500%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Squares-in-hoop-c.-July-17th-blog-1.jpg?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" data-attachment-id=\"7504\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=7504\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,310\" 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;0&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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Square-in-a-square-second-set-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now that the whole design is almost finished, and I feel the &#8216;brown&#8217; ones, of deeper gold shimmering sheer fabric strips overstitched with copper thread, are coming up just a bit too dark.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have few options &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>do nothing &#8211;  see upper left <\/li><li>unpick some copper thread and sew over the fabric strips in gold thread &#8211; see right of of this pic.<\/li><li>add some gold stitches in amongst the copper stitches to lighten those units a bit &#8211; the central  of the right square, and the fight side of that square.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-attachment-id=\"7557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=7557\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,281\" 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;0&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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Concentric-squares-copper-v-gold-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It was evening when I finished doing this sample square, and in the night light it didn&#8217;t seem to make enough difference to justify the amount of extra work to change all the coppery blocks.  However I&#8217;ve left it pinned to the design wall and will make a final decision when I see it in the morning light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have just 5 blocks of the outer row to finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted the previous article on this project just a little over a month ago, June 22nd. Though I&#8217;m putting as much time in as possible, it is taking at least as long as I thought it would. 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