{"id":58,"date":"2004-10-06T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts2\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T14:54:25","slug":"quilled-elf-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/10\/quilled-elf-ornaments.html","title":{"rendered":"Quilled elf ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/elves.jpg\" width=400><br \/>\n<br \/>These were made from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0806905999\/tradgirl\" target='new'>The Book Of Paper Quilling<\/a> which has a nice variety of patterns.<\/p>\n<p>I found that I had to use bigger quills to duplicate her work.  The elf on the left was made from 2&#8243; quills which is what the book called for but that was making for tedious, cramped work.  The other two are made from 3&#8243; quills and I think the more open quality to the quills looks nicer for something like a Christmas ornament.  Now that I&#8217;m using the needle tool instead of the slotted tool to roll my quills, they come out smaller overall.  I haven&#8217;t been able to prevent that yet but using a longer piece of paper than called for seems like a good compromise for now.<\/p>\n<p>The hat bobs are fringed.  Ouch.  I&#8217;ve been reluctant to spend $50 on a fringer but if I had to do much more fringing than this I certainly would.  Fringing is a shortcut to carpal tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The faces are painted on.  I&#8217;m not such a good painter!  But the lopsided features give each elf a certain unique charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were made from The Book Of Paper Quilling which has a nice variety of patterns. I found that I had to use bigger quills to duplicate her work. The elf on the left was made from 2&#8243; quills which is what the book called for but that was making for tedious, cramped work. The&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/10\/quilled-elf-ornaments.html\" title=\"ReadQuilled elf ornaments\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ornaments","category-quilling","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}