{"id":10689,"date":"2017-10-10T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2017-09-20T20:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T19:43:19","slug":"two-amarna-princesses-finishing-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/10\/two-amarna-princesses-finishing-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Amarna Princesses – Finishing Details"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sewing<\/a>

Sewing On The Princess<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided that I would actually sew down the princesses. Everything else has been needlefelted into place, but the texture that creates, especially on a light felt, is a bit too regimented for the impression I want to convey.<\/p>\n

I’ve very carefully, and as near as I can make it, invisibly, attached the felt around the edges, stitching into the thickness of the felt that makes the two girls and using a wool thread that is close in colour to the felt.<\/p>\n

\"Ready<\/a>

Ready For Her Close-Up<\/p><\/div>\n

So far, so good.<\/p>\n

I then used a hand needlefelting tool and went just around the edges, and into the sections that are further back. I’m trying to create a slightly sculptural effect, so that the princesses have a slight roundness to them. Remember how, at the beginning, I said I wanted to recall the scene as the original fresco artist may have seen it, as well as recalling the fresco itself?<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Amarna Princesses<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m rather pleased with my two little princesses.<\/p>\n

I need to work a little magic in straightening up the panel and working out how to display it, as I think the three felt panels that I’ve done so far would all die if put behind glass, and may not even be happy in frames.\u00a0 A question for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided that I would actually sew down the princesses. Everything else has been needlefelted into place, but the texture that creates, especially on a light felt, is a bit too regimented for the impression I want to convey. I’ve very carefully, and as near as I can make it, invisibly, attached the felt around… Continue Reading Two Amarna Princesses – Finishing Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[155,187,133,190],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-felting","tag-needlefelting","tag-two-amarna-princesses","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689","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=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10711,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions\/10711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}