{"id":1566,"date":"2010-03-20T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:21:26","slug":"124-ladderback-chair-tutorial-in-american-miniaturist-issue-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=1566","title":{"rendered":"Ladderback chair tutorial in April issue of American Miniaturist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px; font-size:11px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/ladderback-howto.jpg\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><br \/>Ladderback chairs pictured in the Fairfield, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/half-scale-miniatures.com\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=30&#038;products_id=649\" target=\"new\">Cassidy Creations kitchen table<\/a> that I built from a kit.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall I was looking for half scale ladderback chairs to use in the kitchen of my <a href=\"\/blog\/?tag=michaels-puzzle-house\" target=\"new\">puzzle house<\/a> and, unable to find what I wanted, I ended up making my own. I looked at designs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0709165269?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thedenofslack-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0709165269\">All About Doll Houses<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thedenofslack-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0709165269\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0762413255?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thedenofslack-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0762413255\">Dollhouse Style<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thedenofslack-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0762413255\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> for inspiration. Then I went to my local mini shop and browsed the spindles to find some that had decorative tops that looked similar to the finial tops of a ladderback chair. Houseworks makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miniatures.com\/hbs\/global\/Index2.asp?T=shopping&#038;S=products&#038;I=aa_ProductDetail.asp&#038;PRODUCTSKU=12014\" target=\"new\">2&#8243; spindles<\/a> that are perfect since that translates to 4&#8242; in half scale&mdash;just the right height for a dining chair.<\/p>\n<p>A tutorial for this project has been published in the April 2010 issue of American Miniaturist (issue 84). If you&#8217;d like to check it out and don&#8217;t have a shop nearby that carries it, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashdown.co.uk\/uscomersus\/store\/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=1563\" target=\"new\">buy a copy online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first article in American Miniaturist and I&#8217;m pleased with how it turned out. The magazine is smaller than a standard size magazine (like the old Nutshell News issues were) and they have a lot of how-to articles with clear, step-by-step instructions and plenty of pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladderback chairs pictured in the Fairfield, with a Cassidy Creations kitchen table that I built from a kit. Last fall I was looking for half scale ladderback chairs to use in the kitchen of my puzzle house and, unable to find what I wanted, I ended up making my own. I looked at designs 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":[6,7],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","category-writing","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}