{"id":33363,"date":"2016-08-06T05:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T12:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=33363"},"modified":"2016-08-06T06:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:40:34","slug":"more-on-under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/more-on-under-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on Under the Sea pretty steadily in the evenings. It is soothing to do the handwork. I am also surprised at how quickly I can fill up an area with embroidery.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-33363 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1469844476749-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469844476749-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, detail, july 2016\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33334\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33334'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, detail, july 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1469896258948-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469896258948-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, detail, july 2016\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33340\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33340'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, detail, july 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/not-a-complete-solution\/wp-1469844305959-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469844305959-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, in process again\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33331\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33331'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, in process again\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1469896211286-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469896211286-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, detail, july 2016\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33339\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33339'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, detail, july 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1469844362369-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469844362369-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, detail, july 2016\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33332\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33332'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, detail, july 2016\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/not-a-complete-solution\/wp-1469844414662-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wp-1469844414662-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea, detail\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-33333\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33333'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea, detail\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As I said a few days ago, I am pleased with the work. I am still pleased despite some design challenges.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want the embroidery to be simple, so that limits the stitches.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have enough colors, but when will I have enough colors? This should not come as a surprise to anyone who reads regularly.<\/li>\n<li>The browns, rusts and golds are not my favorite, but I am finding that I don&#8217;t dislike them enough to toss the project.<\/li>\n<li>Beads or no beads?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been pretty tired or working on other things the past two nights, but I&#8217;ll get back to this soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on Under the Sea pretty steadily in the evenings. It is soothing to do the handwork. I am also surprised at how quickly I can fill up an area with embroidery. As I said a few days ago, I am pleased with the work. I am still pleased despite some design &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/more-on-under-the-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on Under the Sea&#8221;<\/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":[374],"tags":[311,161,153,420],"class_list":["post-33363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-creativity","tag-embroidery","tag-surface-design","tag-under-the-sea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363","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=33363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}