{"id":15296,"date":"2012-07-05T06:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:04:24","slug":"woven-paper-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15296","title":{"rendered":"Woven-Paper Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/space-invaders-150x126.jpg\" alt=\"Space Invader\" title=\"Space Invader\" width=\"150\" height=\"126\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Minico has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minieco.co.uk\/geeky-weaves\/\">tutorial<\/a> (which is almost too easy to deserve the name) for weaving paper strips into pixellated &#8220;Space Invaders.&#8221;  They&#8217;re cute and certainly simple&#8211;and cheap!&#8211;to make.<\/p>\n<p>Something else that translates well into pixels are cross-stitch patterns, with the single caveat being that this paper-weaving method only allows one color per line.  Simple designs like <a href=\"http:\/\/crossstitch.about.com\/od\/patternsfromyourguide\/ig\/Expressive-Motifs-Patterns\/Small-Skull-and-Crossbones.htm\">skulls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/crossstitch.about.com\/od\/natureseasonalcharts\/ig\/Insect-Cross-Stitch-Charts\/Spider-Silhouette-Pattern-.htm\">spiders<\/a> are readily adaptable, and you could either weave with a single color of paper or alternate colors on each line for an interesting striped effect.<\/p>\n<p>These would add a decorative touch to all kinds of things; they&#8217;d be nice as a gift topper or homemade greeting card, or just frame a bunch for a quick and interesting accent.  You could also use ribbon instead of paper strips, carefully iron the result onto a bit of fusible webbing, and use it for everything from decorating clothing to covering the lid on a jar of preserves.  Varying the width of the strips will change the size of the finished piece, so you can make something as large or small as desired: You could, for example, use wide fabric strips to decorate the side of a tote bag and then do the same design with much narrower strips to make a matching wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Making these would be a fun group activity, especially for kids, since the only real skill required is the ability to count.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/geekcrafts.com\/\">Geek Crafts<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minico has a tutorial (which is almost too easy to deserve the name) for weaving paper strips into pixellated &#8220;Space Invaders.&#8221; They&#8217;re cute and certainly simple&#8211;and cheap!&#8211;to make. Something else that translates well into pixels are cross-stitch patterns, with the single caveat being that this paper-weaving method only allows one color per line. Simple designs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}