{"id":11323,"date":"2018-09-04T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2018-08-14T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:58:17","slug":"renovating-grandmamas-footstool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/04\/renovating-grandmamas-footstool\/","title":{"rendered":"Renovating Grandmama’s Footstool"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Beginning<\/a>

Beginning Refurbishment<\/p><\/div>\n

Having been working on the Heart, I was still thinking about Grandmama, and noticing that one of the footstools she made was getting a bit shabby and buckled, I decided to renovate it…<\/p>\n

It’s worked in tapestry wool on binca (that strange cotton matting fabric that stitching happened on<\/a> at primary school – does anyone else remember it?). I think I still have, somewhere, Grandmama’s draft of the pattern on squared paper, but the best I can do for putting my hand on it is to say it is Somewhere In The House! Since I don’t have a workroom, I put the footstool in a plastic tray, which I seem to remember is sold for cleaning oven trays. I use it for wet felting and to contain messes when I’m doing things like this. The blued-steel flat-headed nails were very hard to get out, and indeed, some of them lost their heads (!) and didn’t come out. In due course they were hammered firmly back in, instead!<\/p>\n

\"Repaired<\/a>

Repaired Stitching<\/p><\/div>\n

The binca around the edge was badly mauled by the nails, so I knew I would have to do something about that, but in the meantime, there were sections of the canvaswork that needed to be reinstated. First I washed and dried the whole thing (by hand) and then spent some time looking very hard at the stitching. More than fifty years of use have worn a few small sections, and the stitch took some identifying, but in the end, I decided it was Rice Stitch, and found a pale oatmeal tapestry wool that didn’t shout its’ newness too loudly.<\/p>\n

\"Attached<\/a>

Attached To Calico<\/p><\/div>\n

Then I attached the binca to some calico and covered the join with one of the long-armed cross stitches. I wasn’t absolutely sure I had enough of the plain oatmeal colour so I alternated a needleful of each all the way around.<\/p>\n

In the end, I had plenty left over, but I’ve said many a time before that when ekeing out assorted supplies, the trick is to Make It Look Deliberate!<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a>

Finished Footstool<\/p><\/div>\n

I had to do that with the trim as well. Nothing in our local needlework shop was even remotely suitable so in the end I took some bobble fringing, a length of ribbon and some ricrac, and made my own!<\/p>\n

There are one or two infelicities in the details, but it’s certainly got a good few years left in it now.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Grandmama.<\/p>\n

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