{"id":398,"date":"2009-04-22T16:14:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-04-22T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:14:46","slug":"messy-applique-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/messy-applique-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Messy Applique Skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_37491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_37491-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"Flat Skirt\" title=\"Flat Skirt\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_37491-300x94.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_37491-1023x324.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw some beautiful work on an <a href=\"http:\/\/calamitykim.typepad.com\/calamity_kim\/2009\/04\/beware-more-embroidery-and-gnomish-gardens-aheadnot-quite-grey-gardens-but-close.html\">appliqued table runner by Calamity Kim<\/a> and while I couldn&#8217;t hope to match it without devoting a year of my life to it, I was inspired to make something mushroomy and house-y with raw edged applique and freehand machine embroidery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_36901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_36901-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bird &amp; House\" title=\"Bird &amp; House\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_36901-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_36901.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This bird is my favorite part of the machine embroidery I think, some of it is really awful.  But that&#8217;s what I get when I don&#8217;t do any planning or sketching, and just stitch &#8211; really wonky stitch tension, and a broad spread of accidental awesome to ick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_3767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_3767-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dance\" title=\"Dance\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_3767-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_3767-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dsc_3767.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I started out, my goal was a skirt.  By the time I was done with the applique, I didn&#8217;t think it really looked like a skirt anymore.  But I forged ahead anyway, even though I&#8217;d put mushroom roots down past the hem line and birds up past the elastic casing fold line.  Obviously I should have done a <em>little<\/em> more planning than &#8220;don&#8217;t get too close to the edges.&#8221;  Because that didn&#8217;t work so well.  But whatever.  I used the ribbon hem binding from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverands.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/lazy-days-skirt-free-pattern.html\">oliver+s lazy days skirt pattern.<\/a>  That may have been why I secretly wanted to make a skirt, just so I could try out that ribbon binding, it&#8217;s so cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw some beautiful work on an appliqued table runner by Calamity Kim and while I couldn&#8217;t hope to match it without devoting a year of my life to it, I was inspired to make something mushroomy and house-y with raw edged applique and freehand machine embroidery. This bird is my favorite part of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[34,15,213,35],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","tag-applique","tag-clothes","tag-crafty","tag-machine-embroidery","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-6q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}