{"id":1115,"date":"2022-05-10T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2022-05-16T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:30:16","slug":"a-banner-for-mothra-finished-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/a-banner-for-mothra-finished-object\/","title":{"rendered":"A Banner For Mothra (Finished Object)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last March, as I was watching a <a href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/radishflix-2021-highlights-of-kw10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whole lot of Godzilla movies<\/a>, I was also doing a little work with fabric paint on fabric.  It started out as an exercise for my left hand, but after I switched back to my right I ended up with a couple of nice pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At my first full-time job after college I was assigned a workstation named &#8220;Mothra&#8221;, and in the years since she has become my favorite non-Godzilla kaiju.  The twins in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0109916\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla<\/a><\/em> fascinated me, and I wanted to make a piece based on their symbol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mothra Twins in &quot;Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla&quot;\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aGIOSn75YUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The paint was easy enough; the plan for the quilting is always the hard part. Eventually I decided on a simple outline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mothra_progress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mothra_progress.jpg 750w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/mothra_progress-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption><em>The background fabric is a piece I dyed around the turn of the century.<br><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lengths that I will go to in order to avoid making a normal binding are starting to become embarrassing; for this project I cut the backing smaller than the front and brought the front around and folded it up.  It was painful and awkward&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_facing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_facing2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_facing2-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_facing2-768x598.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption><em>Mitered. Sorta.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but the result had a smooth outside edge, like a banner, to be hung in a cave where Mothra is honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1217\" width=\"477\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_banner.jpg 953w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_banner-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mothra_banner-768x806.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitered. Sorta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[39,33,74],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix","category-stitching","tag-godzilla","tag-movies","tag-paint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}