{"id":223,"date":"2006-05-02T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-05-02T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T21:06:33","slug":"sistine-chapel-in-cross-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Sistine Chapel in cross stitch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a few small cross-stitch kits, and I&#8217;ve seen some extraordinary embroideries, and know how much work goes into them. But this one represents a herculaean achievement. This embroidery, of the complete Sistine Chapel ceiling took<a title=\"Sistine Chapel cross stitch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.austinstitchers.org\/Show06\/sistine.htm\"> stitcher Joann Lopianowski-Roberts<\/a>, nine years to complete &#8211; some 2800 hours. It was displayed at a show in Austin, Texas (USA) called: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS-A CELEBRATION OF THIRTY YEARS OF THE AUSTIN STITCHERY GUILD from 10-12 February 2006 &#8211; and understandably, it took off a few prizes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image224\" alt=\"Sistine Chapel cross stitch\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/sistinexstitch.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done a few small cross-stitch kits, and I&#8217;ve seen some extraordinary embroideries, and know how much work goes into them. But this one represents a herculaean achievement. This embroidery, of the complete Sistine Chapel ceiling took stitcher Joann Lopianowski-Roberts, nine years to complete &#8211; some 2800 hours. It was displayed at a show in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}