{"id":7844,"date":"2010-12-20T07:07:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T11:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2010-12-08T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T13:17:09","slug":"zombie-pincushion-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Pincushion Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pincushion-150x87.jpg\" alt=\"Pincushion\" title=\"Pincushion\" width=\"150\" height=\"87\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Well, the example is a zombie, but I think it just screams &#8220;voodoo doll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Art Threads has a nicely detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/artthreads.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/wednesday-sewing-zombies-cupcakes-and.html\">tutorial<\/a> for making three different pincushions from felt, including a ragged zombie with rudely-stitched wounds.  Felt is great for making small items like this because you don&#8217;t have to worry about trying to turn it right-side-out after sewing; since the edges don&#8217;t fray, you can just top-stitch the whole thing and leave it right-side-out to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>The tutorial has lots of cute (&#8220;cute&#8221; being a relatively term where zombies are concerned) suggestions for adding a little character to your creation; I love his itty-bitty turned-down collar and leaking brains.<\/p>\n<p>You could use the basic pattern and instructions and turn out a range of creatures by changing the surface details.  It would also be fun to stitch a loop of ribbon to their heads and use them as Christmas ornaments.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/\">CRAFT<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the example is a zombie, but I think it just screams &#8220;voodoo doll.&#8221; Art Threads has a nicely detailed tutorial for making three different pincushions from felt, including a ragged zombie with rudely-stitched wounds. Felt is great for making small items like this because you don&#8217;t have to worry about trying to turn it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","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=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}