{"id":240,"date":"2005-10-06T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/peacock-feather-surface-design-finished\/"},"modified":"2005-10-06T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T20:28:00","slug":"peacock-feather-surface-design-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/peacock-feather-surface-design-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock feather surface design finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece turned out to be just SO dimensional! On top of using the quilt batting, I stuffed each peacock feather with fluff to make it pop, then stitched like crazy with golden thread.  Topped it off with green sparkle beads and sequins. Here it is- 13 1\/2&#8243; by 19&#8243;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051006.jpg\"><br \/>\nFrom this piece I have a whole bunch of new ideas. I&#8217;m going to create a few more peacock pieces inspired by this initial wall hanging, but they are going to all be quite different (hint- they include the female figure and some other surprises). This new way of working is very exciting&#8230;it gets me thinking about series and such. AND I get to PLAY with the fabric without a sketch!!! I bought peacock feathers to use as reference. <\/p>\n<p>Before I embroidered and appliqued the peacock feathers on, I started with this base fabric. I made it by fusing together antique lace, satins, cottons and tulle. Layered it with paint too. I free motion stitched all over it in square spirals. So, basically, this is what it looks like UNDER the stuffed feathers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051006_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nheres a detail picture of a feather&#8230;if you look closely you can see tulle, lace, etc pressed in there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/051006_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece turned out to be just SO dimensional! On top of using the quilt batting, I stuffed each peacock feather with fluff to make it pop, then stitched like crazy with golden thread. Topped it off with green sparkle beads and sequins. Here it is- 13 1\/2&#8243; by 19&#8243;. From this piece I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/peacock-feather-surface-design-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peacock feather surface design finished!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}