{"id":11527,"date":"2018-12-18T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:06:13","slug":"stems-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/18\/stems-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Stems done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11526\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/StemsDone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11526\" class=\" wp-image-11526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/StemsDone-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Stems Done!\" width=\"420\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/StemsDone-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/StemsDone-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/StemsDone.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stems Done!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got all the stems done on the Jacobean Coat!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11524\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeve Motif 1\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1-768x1103.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sleeve Motif 1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been quietly attaching the chunky knitting wool along the lines of the stems, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with progress so far. I&#8217;ve tweaked a couple of tendrils, and there are a few details I&#8217;m not quite sure about, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s better than that, because I have started on the felt appliqu\u00e9!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11525\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif2Stage1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11525\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif2Stage1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sleeve Motif 2, Stage1\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif2Stage1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif2Stage1-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SleeveMotif2Stage1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sleeve Motif 2, Stage1<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both of the sleeves have motifs on them, one placed above the sleeve and the other below.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to test the next stage on one of the sleeves, in case it didn&#8217;t work, but I rather think it will. I&#8217;m using the same lofty, fluffy felt I used for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/two-amarna-princesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amarna Princesses<\/a>, and I have lightly needlefelted it in place so that I can add the embroidered details without stabbing myself on a pin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got all the stems done on the Jacobean Coat! I&#8217;ve been quietly attaching the chunky knitting wool along the lines of the stems, and I&#8217;m quite pleased with progress so far. I&#8217;ve tweaked a couple of tendrils, and there are a few details I&#8217;m not quite sure about, but it&#8217;s a start. In fact,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/18\/stems-done\/\">Continue Reading Stems done!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,205],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apparel","tag-jacobean-coat","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527","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=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11533,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions\/11533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}