{"id":10832,"date":"2018-01-30T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10832"},"modified":"2018-01-04T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:32:04","slug":"progress-on-akhenaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/30\/progress-on-akhenaten\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Akhenaten"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Finished<\/a>

Finished The Wig<\/p><\/div>\n

Working with goldwork in a European winter is optimistic at best, and much as I enjoyed working the Detached Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch with Return, it took rather longer than I might have hoped. When I managed to sit down with a quiet mind, a good light, and plenty of time, I found that the work would speed up. It was tricky to keep it even – I didn’t entirely succeed, either – and I wondered, halfway through when it was rather too late, whether I should have worked it “upside down” as in Jacquie Carey’s book “Elizabethan Stitches”.<\/p>\n

\"Silver<\/a>

Silver Plate<\/p><\/div>\n

I have decided to keep working on the head and the crown, at least until I don’t know what to do next, so the next section was to be the top of the headdress. Now, although the colossi don’t show Akhenaten wearing the combined crown of upper and lower Egypt, I’ve decided to reference it in the colours for the headdress.<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a>

Finished Upper Crown<\/p><\/div>\n

So the top section of the headdress is a zigzag of sliver plate. It’s not as even as I would like, perhaps, and I am wondering (I’m doing a lot of wondering with this one, aren’t I!) whether I should have started at the bottom and worked up. I’m not sure I have enough left over to do it again, so unless and until I decide I can’t bring myself to leave it this way, I’m going to remain content with my very first effort using silver plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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