{"id":3828,"date":"2016-08-11T17:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T18:03:26","slug":"jays-rusty-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/jays-rusty-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay&#8217;s Rusty Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jay gave me some rusty bits left over from some of his wonderful sculpture. Lots of triangles and other shapes. Thank you Jay!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/finish700.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Finished Work\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/finish700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/rustyStuff700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jay's Rusty Bits.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/rustyStuff700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Before I left for vacation I wrapped some in one of my napkins and boiled it up with some tea and left it while I was gone. I didn&#8217;t arrange them just wrapped them up and weighted them in a pot of tea. Pretty ugly bunch of stuff when I returned. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/JaysRust.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fabric rusted with Jay's Rusty Bits.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/JaysRust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/setUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Set up where I'm doing my hand stitching.\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/dyeing\/setUp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first picture is the napkin after it was rinsed and dried and ironed&#8212;I always iron linen napkins. The second one is my design almost finished.<\/p>\n<p>This is large enough to create 3 cloths and here is the first. I cut it apart and reassembled it like my others but decided to stitch on it as I have in the fiber book. There are 3 designs each based circles, diagonals and straight lines. Finished this at 3:00 in the morning last night when I couldn&#8217;t sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I work at a drawing table with a bright light. The cloth is raised up on a small portable ironing board. Jane said it would drive her crazy to stitch this way but I like it&#8212;some times sitting on a tall stool, sometimes standing. Mostly do it when I need a break from other work&#8212;or in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jay gave me some rusty bits left over from some of his wonderful sculpture. Lots of triangles and other shapes. Thank you Jay! Before I left for vacation I wrapped some in one of my napkins and boiled it up with some tea and left it while I was gone. I didn&#8217;t arrange&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/jays-rusty-bits\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}