{"id":10927,"date":"2018-09-11T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:14:36","slug":"filling-in-akhenatens-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/11\/filling-in-akhenatens-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting started on Akhenaten’s Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Trial<\/a>

Trial Run – but Not Happy<\/p><\/div>\n

I knew I wanted to fill in the belt with coloured chipwork, but how?<\/p>\n

I had started off with the idea of making lotus flower shapes, but very soon became frustrated. I didn’t like the way it was looking, and, adding insult to injury, it was exceptionally fiddly to do.<\/p>\n

So, no, think again. It might be possible to do something like this another time, but at the moment I can’t quite think how I would do so!<\/p>\n

\"Scatter<\/a>

Scatter Of Coloured Purl<\/p><\/div>\n

The next attempt was to use standard chipwork without attempting to make pictures. I know that the chips are very spread out here, but I began with the coloured purls, scattered across the belt to create a graduated colour effect, which shades from purple in the middle through blue to dark blue-green and light blue-green. The gold background had to wait until I had the colourwork right.<\/p>\n

\"Belt<\/a>

Belt Complete<\/p><\/div>\n

Once that was done, I went back and added the gold chipwork. I have four different types of gold purl, some smooth and some rough, so the sparkles would have some variety and colour. I think I’m much more pleased with this, and I will be able to tweak the blue twist to bring it more to the foreground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew I wanted to fill in the belt with coloured chipwork, but how? I had started off with the idea of making lotus flower shapes, but very soon became frustrated. I didn’t like the way it was looking, and, adding insult to injury, it was exceptionally fiddly to do. So, no, think again. It… Continue Reading Getting started on Akhenaten’s Belt<\/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":[193,198,155,158,192],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-akhenaten","tag-chipwork","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","tag-trapunto","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","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=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}