{"id":10078,"date":"2016-11-01T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2016-10-12T20:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:29:42","slug":"finished-tiny-flame-stitch-pincushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/01\/finished-tiny-flame-stitch-pincushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished &#8211; Tiny &#8211; Flame Stitch Pincushion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10077\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FlameStitchFinished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10077\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FlameStitchFinished-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Flame Stitch Finished\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FlameStitchFinished-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FlameStitchFinished-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FlameStitchFinished.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flame Stitch Finished<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are in fact several errors in the stitching here. However, since I kept losing them and finding them and losing them again, I decided to let them stand. If even I can&#8217;t keep them in sight, no-one else will find them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed using the silk thread for the stitching &#8211; but then I keep saying that, don&#8217;t I? Silk seems alive somehow, in a way that cotton, linen, and even wool, don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10079\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FinishedFlameStitchPincushion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10079\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FinishedFlameStitchPincushion-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Finished Flame Stitch Pincushion\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FinishedFlameStitchPincushion-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FinishedFlameStitchPincushion-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FinishedFlameStitchPincushion.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished Flame Stitch Pincushion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What really surprised me was just how small the pincushion was when I finished it, using a spare fragment of silk fabric for the back. It was really quite astonishingly fiddly when it came to turning it inside out and especially when it came to the corners.<\/p>\n<p>Still, here it is, done, and stuffed, and the final side closed up neatly..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10080\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IsntItTiny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IsntItTiny-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Isn't It Tiny!\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IsntItTiny-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IsntItTiny.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isn&#8217;t It Tiny!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then I put it in the palm of my hand and finally realised just how small it really is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another one for that eventual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?s=winter+decoration\">Winter Decoration Corner<\/a>, I think &#8211; in my chaotic workspace, a pincushion this size would sink without trace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are in fact several errors in the stitching here. However, since I kept losing them and finding them and losing them again, I decided to let them stand. If even I can&#8217;t keep them in sight, no-one else will find them&#8230; I enjoyed using the silk thread for the stitching &#8211; but then I&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/01\/finished-tiny-flame-stitch-pincushion\/\">Continue Reading Finished &#8211; Tiny &#8211; Flame Stitch Pincushion<\/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":[41,178,26,16],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bargello","tag-frostings-box","tag-silk-thread","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078","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=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}