{"id":219,"date":"2009-01-16T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-01-16T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T17:42:06","slug":"what-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/what-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pattern\"<\/a>
\nCan you tell what this is? It looks a little bit like a fighter jet. Or if you turn it sideways it could be a city skyline…<\/p>\n

\"Stitched\"<\/a>
\nHow about now? It’s sewn up, but inside out.<\/p>\n

\"Chair\"<\/a>
\nOh, it’s a chair! <\/p>\n

The other day we were having a tea party in my daughter’s doll house, and there were not enough chairs. Yes, it was tragic, but one of the four thrifted Kelly dolls had to sit on a couch. Shocking. Something had to be done. So I mentally unrolled an arm chair onto a piece of paper. That was the easy part. Then I had to find the time and motivation to do all the cutting and stitching and finishing. I think that took about three hours.<\/p>\n

I’ve been wondering recently whether my life would have taken a different direction if all those aptitude tests in high school had been a little more thorough. I had great math and spatial relation skills, so I went into engineering and computer science, because those were the obviously salable things that I liked. But what if they had asked me whether I liked to sew? I don’t think I ever considered that I could be one of those people who created patterns. But it’s full of geometry and space folding and figuring out how to put things together, which I love. But it’s also one of those scary and unreliable artistic professions, and I’m often not very brave that way.<\/p>\n

Would anyone want to make one of these chairs? Should I put it on my list of tutorials to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you tell what this is? It looks a little bit like a fighter jet. Or if you turn it sideways it could be a city skyline… How about now? It’s sewn up, but inside out. Oh, it’s a chair! The other day we were having a tea party in my daughter’s doll house, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[213,13,9,8,30,20,16],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","tag-crafty","tag-doll-house","tag-embroidery","tag-felt","tag-furniture","tag-miniature","tag-sewing","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-3x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}