{"id":1361,"date":"2022-08-09T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:35:56","slug":"four-bigfoots-and-a-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/09\/four-bigfoots-and-a-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Bigfoots and a UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…and it’s an UFO<\/a>, not a UAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

’round about eight years ago, I took some screen-printing classes at the Indianapolis Art Center<\/a>, and I still have a box of prints on fabric, mostly a portrait of my cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This cat.
July 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I found one printed on a patchwork of batik fabrics, and decided to practice the facing finish with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A completely normal facing finish.
June 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Disaster. I had done some machine quilting with cotton thread on the fabric before printing on it, but for some reason (possibly Tanqueray), I had decided to add a layer of nylon tulle before I did the stitching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a moron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nylon melts at a lower temperature than is necessary to get a good crease–or even the wrinkles out!–on cotton, so I had a lot of difficulty getting everything to stay in place. As you can see from the above picture, I started out with a square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not end with a square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FUZZ, never letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
June 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The important thing is, it is no longer a UFO. It is a FO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus: Cat hair.
June 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While this is going on, I was also hand-stitching up some Sasquatches<\/a>. This is not a thing I can explain, because I do not entirely understand it myself. You recognize Patty’s silhouette from the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin\u00a0film<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Squatch 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squatch 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squatch 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squatch 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A Squatch For All Seasons
July and August 2022<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry. There’s more where this came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t worry. There’s more where this came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,20],"tags":[88,89],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-vibe","category-stitching","tag-fuzz","tag-sasquatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t