{"id":3224,"date":"2020-08-12T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:45:15","slug":"and-now-its-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=3224","title":{"rendered":"And *now* it’s done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It took some reworking and some final touches but now the reticule stitching is now for real and absolutely finished and all that remains is the the assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got the original design for the monogram out of this Dover book of monograms<\/a> which has a monogram for every pair of letters. As I mentioned before, the original monogram wasn’t quite perfect-the right size in general but not quite the best shape for filling the space and not quite as fancy as I wanted (Betsy Morgan’s “EM” is one of the fanciest monograms in the book and is part of what drew me to this project! I really wanted something quite fancy but I didn’t want to make it so big I’d have to stitch it over one). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I redesigned it twice and even started stitching one of those designs. As I was stitching it, I saw a way to make it better which only required a bit more tweaking and so back to the drawing board a third time. If redoing the stitching was as easy in real life as designing on the computer, I would scoot it up a stitch or too and maybe taper it into the point better but overall I’m happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After getting the monogram stitched I found there was some finishing stitching that needed to be done: the buttonhole edging on the inside edge…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and the hebedo stitch and beading on the pointy end of the envelope… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished it up last night and NOW I can assemble!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took some reworking and some final touches but now the reticule stitching is now for real and absolutely finished and all that remains is the the assembly. I got the original design for the monogram out of this Dover book of monograms which has a monogram for every pair of letters. As I mentioned before, the original monogram wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[156,157],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-2020","tag-betsy-morgan","tag-willing-hands"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}