{"id":271,"date":"2008-06-01T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T14:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2008-06-19T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:49:04","slug":"my-would-be-cretan-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"my would-be cretan stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>spatial concepts is not my strongest intelligence. i&#8217;ve known this for a long time, and while it is not on the long list of reasons i married <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeinthealong.com\/secret-decoder-ding\/\">mr. thrillenity<\/a>, i must admit that it was like finding yet another diamond about him when he first translated a diagram of an embroidery stitch to me in terms i could grasp and run with. now i&#8217;m getting to that point in life when it seems prudent to learn to follow diagrams on my own, but alas: i&#8217;m thinking (with one of my stronger intelligences) that it&#8217;s just not in the cards. not in my deck anyway.<\/p>\n<p>for the past few days i&#8217;ve been working on stitching my way through a dilemma. am wanting to do random some sharp-edged, pointy stitches &#8211; something with a trident look about it &#8211; and the cretan stitch seems just the ticket. but, shoot, i simply canNOT replicate the diagram, the sketched instructions. i mean, really. do any of these thread markings even vaguely RESEMBLE any cretan stitch you&#8217;ve ever seen before?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/wouldbecretanstitches060108.jpg\" alt=\"wouldbecretanstitches060108.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"176\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>sigh.<\/p>\n<p>i suppose today i&#8217;ll just have to ask my ever-willing-and-patient translator for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>or just do what i&#8217;ve done so many times before: make up my own stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spatial concepts is not my strongest intelligence. i&#8217;ve known this for a long time, and while it is not on the long list of reasons i married mr. thrillenity, i must admit that it was like finding yet another diamond about him when he first translated a diagram of an embroidery stitch to me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-dinner-party","category-my-life-in-stitches","category-witw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}