{"id":10048,"date":"2016-10-11T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10048"},"modified":"2016-07-14T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:31:36","slug":"more-long-buried-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/11\/more-long-buried-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"More Long Buried Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10040\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MakingAStart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10040\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MakingAStart-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Made A Start\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MakingAStart-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MakingAStart-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MakingAStart.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Made A Start<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not really been able to settle to anything this summer, which has lead to a lot of reorganisation, rather than any real progress. Consequently, I keep on finding long-forgotten projects and thinking &#8220;Must finish that!&#8221;. Here&#8217;s another one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is in fact a legacy of the early stages of my original, pre-internet, usage of the word &#8220;VirtuoSew&#8221;, when I was producing counted cross stitch kits as &#8220;DevaStitch Designs&#8221;. The idea, developed by my husband The Australian, was to use whole stitches, fractional stitches, and back stitches to create a sort of dithered &#8220;newsprint&#8221; effect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10041\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ALongWayToGo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10041\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ALongWayToGo-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"A Long Way To Go\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ALongWayToGo-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ALongWayToGo-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ALongWayToGo.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Long Way To Go<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Stalking Tiger never got beyond early stages, but it&#8217;s an interesting technique, if not one for cross stitchers who hate fractional stitches!<\/p>\n<p>I might wait until I&#8217;ve got on top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/garden-of-eden\/\">Garden of Eden<\/a>, which also involves a lot of counting, before I try to wrap this one up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not really been able to settle to anything this summer, which has lead to a lot of reorganisation, rather than any real progress. Consequently, I keep on finding long-forgotten projects and thinking &#8220;Must finish that!&#8221;. Here&#8217;s another one&#8230; This is in fact a legacy of the early stages of my original, pre-internet, usage of&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/11\/more-long-buried-projects\/\">Continue Reading More Long Buried Projects<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,179],"class_list":["post-10048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cross-stitch","tag-virtuosew","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10076,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10048\/revisions\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}