{"id":64087,"date":"2024-10-18T07:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=64087"},"modified":"2024-10-15T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:45:02","slug":"needlepoint-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/needlepoint-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Needlepoint Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64088\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155559_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64088\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155559_wm-sm-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Needlepoint in frame - full\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155559_wm-sm-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155559_wm-sm-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155559_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Needlepoint in frame &#8211; full<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finally started the needlepoint kit I <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/what-is-this-the-70s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bought awhile ago<\/a>. I am not quite completely organized, but I wanted to get started.<\/p>\n<p>I am just working on the blue for the moment, so I didn&#8217;t have to change yarn a lot and could get used to the routine. I discussed needlepoint with Mary C at the Sew Day the other day. She brought her needlepoint project to work on, so I could see what she was doing. I learned how to make my back neater and hopefully save yarn, so I won&#8217;t run out. My grandmother&#8217;s voice saying the back should be as neat as the front has been rocketing around my head as I work on this project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64089\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155607_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64089\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155607_wm-sm-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Needlepoint in process - detail\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155607_wm-sm-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155607_wm-sm-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240906_155607_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Needlepoint in process &#8211; detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is a bit repetitive, but I decided to ignore that. I can&#8217;t say much about that since I have organized all of the threads yet. I need to do that before I leave for Portland in a few days as I want to bring this with me as my hand project. As I make progress, I want to change colors to fill in areas that are slowly being surrounded by the blue background.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/la-passacaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Passacaglia<\/a> is a hand project, but I might take a&nbsp; different tack on that project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally started the needlepoint kit I bought awhile ago. I am not quite completely organized, but I wanted to get started. I am just working on the blue for the moment, so I didn&#8217;t have to change yarn a lot and could get used to the routine. I discussed needlepoint with Mary C at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/needlepoint-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Needlepoint Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[530],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-64087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64087","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64103,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64087\/revisions\/64103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}