{"id":107,"date":"2014-03-24T17:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T00:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-03-31T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:41:40","slug":"currently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have been away from my website for a while! \u00c2\u00a0Yes, but I have been busy, and now I will try to post more often. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m working on posting once a week. \u00c2\u00a0Time will tell! \u00c2\u00a0Recently I have been working on reverse applique and embroidery. \u00c2\u00a0I have a few images today, and I will have more on each soon. \u00c2\u00a0I am timidly moving forward with this blogging! \u00c2\u00a0Too, today I began work on a piece that will be part of a series about madness and genius and how they so often inform each other as with Vincent Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf. \u00c2\u00a0I will have sneak peeks soon with more discussion of my thought process, too. \u00c2\u00a0What is genius? \u00c2\u00a0What is madness? \u00c2\u00a0What happens in artists where both reside? \u00c2\u00a0Are they kin? \u00c2\u00a0Or are they merely in contention? \u00c2\u00a0I have much to ponder&#8230;and create&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110\" style=\"margin: 8px; border: 4px solid black;\" alt=\"IMG_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0003.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0003.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0003-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This piece is the reverse applique. I reverse appliqued the flowers, used french knots for the centers and back or stem stitch for the stems. Then I hand quilted the leaves.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_109\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_00021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109 \" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" alt=\"IMG_0002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_00021.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_00021.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_00021-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sort of scarf that I really like, and I like reverse applique. I think I will try more!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111 \" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 8px;\" alt=\"IMG_0007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0007.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some sample pieces of embroidery for my Simply Stitch 4 class with Karen Ruane. If you haven&#8217;t seen her work you should go look! You can find her at http:\/\/karenannruane.typepad.com\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have been away from my website for a while! \u00c2\u00a0Yes, but I have been busy, and now I will try to post more often. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m working on posting once a week. \u00c2\u00a0Time will tell! \u00c2\u00a0Recently I have been working on reverse applique and embroidery. \u00c2\u00a0I have a few images today, and I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applique-block","category-hand-embroidery","category-hand-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}