{"id":18401,"date":"2013-05-21T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=18401"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:04:31","slug":"vintage-tuesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/vintage-tuesday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tuesday #3"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Parakeet<\/a>
Parakeet Embroidery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have a lot of needlework from my female ancestors<\/a>. I am starting to have a hard time appreciating it, because It is taking up space in my cupboards and not all of it is my style. Yet I feel compelled to keep it. I know this is how the Young Man will feel when all the quilts I feel compelled to make are dumped on his living room floor when I am dead.<\/p>\n

\"Parakeet<\/a>
Parakeet Embroidery-detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This dresser scarf is actually one of the pieces that I like and use. the birds look very cheerful in this piece.<\/p>\n

We had parakeets when I was a kid and, though, they were messy, they also made a cheerful noise. We had a green (Bilbo) and a blue one (Gandalf). As an aside: My mom named them, I think, because I would have never named them after characters in the Lord of the Rings series.<\/p>\n

I like the embroidery because the cheerful personality of the birds comes through.<\/p>\n

\"Parakeet<\/a>
Parakeet Embroidery-detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also like the way the stitching was done. It isn’t really dense, so the stitches seem to have some air to breathe.<\/p>\n

I haven’t ever seen an embroidery with this pattern before and it makes me wonder if it is unusual.<\/p>\n

I think this one must have been made by my maternal great grandmother, because of the tatting around the edge. I don’t remember my grandmother ever doing tatting.<\/p>\n

I looked for an image of the pattern, so I could give some background for those of you history buffs, but didn’t come up with anything. ‘The’ Google’s precision is really lacking. I would love to be able to filter more, but they have dumbed their system down enough that it is nearly unusable for difficult searches.<\/p>\n

I’ll add the information if I find it later.<\/p>\n

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I have a lot of needlework from my female ancestors. I am starting to have a hard time appreciating it, because It is taking up space in my cupboards and not all of it is my style. Yet I feel compelled to keep it. I know this is how the Young Man will feel when … Continue reading “Vintage Tuesday #3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[207,330,211],"class_list":["post-18401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-antique","tag-other-artists","tag-vintage-tuesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}