{"id":4648,"date":"2012-06-27T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:15:27","slug":"telescope-lattice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"Telescope Lattice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a long time to think about this stitch because it didn&#8217;t really appeal to me at first. &nbsp;Here it is from the Barbara Walker site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiCoHFwb7r_qT9p96a5r2OxihK8HISjWO9XmHxQ8EJXOAjYxqw3gWRe8BiPHm9pggwVAARGhb5-Rypr88rbmiDHfvljnps7tH2NmoLRruUxIdnXeCNRk3nIW5EkU9Dt881YqVre\/s320\/telescope+Lattice.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiCoHFwb7r_qT9p96a5r2OxihK8HISjWO9XmHxQ8EJXOAjYxqw3gWRe8BiPHm9pggwVAARGhb5-Rypr88rbmiDHfvljnps7tH2NmoLRruUxIdnXeCNRk3nIW5EkU9Dt881YqVre\/s320\/telescope+Lattice.jpg\" width=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It does, though, remind me of low stratus clouds and that usually means rain &#8211; as in &#8220;mackerel sky &#8211; rain by and by.&#8221; Maybe this is why I didn&#8217;t like the stitch at first because it reminded me of a cloudy day. &nbsp;Then again I never mind seeing a mackerel sky when we need rain. &nbsp;Here is a picture of a mackerel sky, so named because the clouds resemble the fish scales of a Mackerel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mackerel-scaled.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mackerel-scaled.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nNow I&#8217;m not sure where the telescope part comes in. &nbsp;Maybe the lattice looks like an elongated telescope. &nbsp;Anyway shooting clouds probably works better with a telescopic lens. &nbsp;I just used my Canon SureShot here and the effect is still of fish scales, though the striping of the clouds could be clearer.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m on the subject of clouds. &nbsp;Here is a picture of my kind of cloudy day &#8211; full of magnificent white clouds (each with a silver lining, no doubt), lots of blue sky and sun!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sky.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sky.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Have a magnificent day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a long time to think about this stitch because it didn&#8217;t really appeal to me at first. &nbsp;Here it is from the Barbara Walker site. It does, though, remind me of low stratus clouds and that usually means rain &#8211; as in &#8220;mackerel sky &#8211; rain by and by.&#8221; Maybe this is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}