{"id":5016,"date":"2020-03-03T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2020-03-03T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:52:44","slug":"long-wool-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/long-wool-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Wool Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started a new project with four long strips of felted wool (about 6.5&#8217; x 2&#8243; each) and want to apply dyes and stitches to them. I started by testing small squares with different dyes&#8212;mainly tea with iron and madder with alum. So far I&#8217;ve dyed one strip with tea and iron and it is currently drying waiting for the next step.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/DyeSamples.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"samples of dyes on felted wool\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/DyeSamples.jpg\" alt=\"Image of five dye samples\" height=\"300\" width=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/Dye-Dry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Strip dipped in rusty tea dye pot and drying on rack,\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/Dye-Dry.jpg\" alt=\"Image of dyed strip drying\" height=\"300\" width=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A second strip has been left un-dyed so far and I am stitching a small area each day this month. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/Day1-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"First two days of daily stitching journal\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/Day1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image of first two days of stitching\" height=\"300\" width=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/day3-Rain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The third day it rained!\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/2020\/exhibition\/day3-Rain.jpg\" alt=\"Image of of rain\" height=\"300\" width=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first two were mainly warm ups &#8211; getting the feel of the project&#8212;a bit of more formal embroidery followed by some straight stitching which I usually use in my work&#8212;then today it rained!<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done a daily practice like this before so it will be fun to see where it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started a new project with four long strips of felted wool (about 6.5&#8217; x 2&#8243; each) and want to apply dyes and stitches to them. I started by testing small squares with different dyes&#8212;mainly tea with iron and madder with alum. So far I&#8217;ve dyed one strip with tea and iron and it is currently&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/long-wool-strips\/\">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":[444,388,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stitching","category-dyeing","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","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=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}