{"id":10500,"date":"2017-05-09T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10500"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T11:47:28","slug":"canvaswork-again-the-lady-by-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/09\/canvaswork-again-the-lady-by-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvaswork again – The Lady By The Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The Lady By The Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

This is my second post of canvaswork for Catherine of Hillview Embroidery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Lady By The Lake has a much wider range of stitches and threads in it, including blends of stranded cottons, ribbons, and a variety of wools. The canvas is a double thread canvas which makes it possible to separate the threads and work some of the design in petit point.<\/p>\n

I wrote a post about the Lady when I first started blogging, but I have a very much better camera now, and an incentive to take the picture down from the wall. Considering the canvas is still under glass I am very pleased with how the photographs turned out. There are enough different materials and textures in the scene to provide a good workout for thread and stitch selection muscles…<\/p>\n

\"Sky<\/a>

Sky And Mountains<\/p><\/div>\n

The sky and clouds are all Milanese Stitch, worked in blended Persian yarns with three strands in the needle.<\/p>\n

The mountains are in Gobelins Stitch in tapestry wool, and the lakeside hills with their forest and villages are a whole tangle of interesting variations of stitch and thread.<\/p>\n

\"Hat,<\/a>

Hat, Face And Blouse<\/p><\/div>\n

The face and arms were worked in petit point, separating the double threads to create single thread canvas, and worked in stranded cottons (blended). The hair (she didn\u2019t have quite such glorious chestnut hair on the painted canvas itself) is also blended stranded cottons, worked in a sort of long and short stitch. The hat has spider\u2019s web stitch roses on it, and she’s wearing large pearl bead earrings.<\/p>\n

\"Skirt<\/a>

Skirt And Bench<\/p><\/div>\n

It was the idea of experimenting with the skirt that attracted me. I used a bordered Hungarian Stitch, worked in three shades of pearl cotton and combining them to create the impression of five shades in the skirt. It worked!<\/p>\n

The blouse is also pearl cotton, this time Linen Stitch, which is effectively the back of Basketweave Tent stitch put on the front.<\/p>\n

I changed the wooden, slatted backed bench of the canvas into a padded one so that I could do the upholstery in Reversed Mosaic Stitch.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a>

Lake And Town<\/p><\/div>\n

The lake itself took ages to do \u2013 row after row of darning stitch using all sorts of ribbons and threads, including some truly ghastly double knitting acrylic yarn which would have made a dreadfully uncomfortable jumper, but made a very good lake surface, with that slight sparkle you get when there\u2019s just enough breeze to move the water.<\/p>\n

\"Balustrade<\/a>

Balustrade And Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

The balustrade was worked in Soft Embroidery Cotton. I assumed it was something like limestone, and not marble with a polished surface, so the thread needed to be dull to let other elements shine.<\/p>\n

Again, click on the pictures to see more and have fun thinking about what I should have done differently!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my second post of canvaswork for Catherine of Hillview Embroidery. The Lady By The Lake has a much wider range of stitches and threads in it, including blends of stranded cottons, ribbons, and a variety of wools. The canvas is a double thread canvas which makes it possible to separate the threads and… Continue Reading Canvaswork again – The Lady By The Lake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,14],"class_list":["post-10500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlepoint","tag-canvaswork","tag-ornamental-stitches","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500","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=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}