{"id":4299,"date":"2020-09-20T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2020-09-20T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T16:07:49","slug":"glamorous-clams-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/20\/glamorous-clams-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorous Clams, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"basting<\/a>I’ve been making slow but steady progress on this project. I finished making all 49 clamshell shapes and did the preliminary decorative stitching. The next step was to lay them out (there are five unused clamshells, allowing for a little flexibility) and fuse them to the background, and now I’m basting them with invisible thread to the background prior to doing more decorative stitching around the tops of the shapes. It’s really been fun exploring all of the decorative stitches in my Bernina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been making slow but steady progress on this project. I finished making all 49 clamshell shapes and did the preliminary decorative stitching. The next step was to lay them out (there are five unused clamshells, allowing for a little flexibility) and fuse them to the background, and now I’m basting them with invisible thread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,301],"tags":[202,326,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-4299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-applique","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-clamshells","10":"tag-embellishing","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-17l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4304,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/glamorous-clams-part-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":4299,"position":0},"title":"Glamorous Clams, part 3","author":"Sandy","date":"October 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working pretty hard on the online classes I've mentioned before, but I did finally get all of my clamshells stitched to the background, using a variety of decorative stitches and thread colors. 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