{"id":1289,"date":"2011-01-14T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2011-01-14T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:55:16","slug":"stitch-art-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/stitch-art-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitch Art Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was back home visiting for the holidays my Mum gave me a couple of pieces or artwork she kept for me.  I was probably about 8 or 10 when I made them.  At that time I was into drawing as my main art form, and had already begun dabbling in origami, but this was my one and only foray into needle-oriented art.  My Mum is an expert at embroidery, needlepoint and cross-stitch, as well as knitting, crocheting and sewing.  My kids got a couple arts-and-crafts gifts this year for Xmas, which reminded my Mum she had this art down in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>As I recall she set up my brothers and I with little handmade canvasses that consisted of burlap stretched across cardboard frame.  We drew pictures on the burlap and then filled them in using yarn instead of embroidery floss.  I made a butterfly and a dragonfly, as you see.  I think Martin made a housefly and a caterpillar, and Jim made a turtle and maybe a lizard.<\/p>\n<p>These were hanging on my wall for quite some time as I was growing up, but I hadn&#8217;t thought of them in years.  Thanks Mum!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/art\/stitchArt\/np_butterfly_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/art\/stitchArt\/np_butterfly_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" target=\"blank\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/art\/stitchArt\/np_dragonfly_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/zingman.com\/art\/stitchArt\/np_dragonfly_400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" target=\"blank\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was back home visiting for the holidays my Mum gave me a couple of pieces or artwork she kept for me. I was probably about 8 or 10 when I made them. At that time I was into drawing as my main art form, and had already begun dabbling in origami, but this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/stitch-art-insects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stitch Art Insects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}