{"id":1193,"date":"2010-06-08T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-06-01T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T11:41:35","slug":"beginning-the-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/08\/beginning-the-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Starting the Spot Sampler<\/p><\/div>\n

So now I am beginning to do the silk embroidery for the next Thistle Threads<\/a> Online University Course<\/a>, the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More gorgeous Au Ver A Soie<\/a> silk thread to play with!<\/p>\n

Furthermore, some new stitches! I’m not keen on counted work, so when I saw a chart in the instructions, my heart sank. Then I read the instructions and realised it was going to be a bit more fun than I had thought…<\/p>\n

So, most of the silk stitching is to be in Queen Stitch<\/a>, which I think I have done in canvaswork before, but never at this scale, and never changing its orientation or doing half queen stitches. The square motifs are bordered in Roman Stitch<\/a> with Rice Stitch<\/a> in the middle. Apparently in the historical pieces, Queen Stitches are often treated almost as pulled work<\/a>, creating a lacy pattern of holes between the stitches. It’s quite difficult to pull tight enough, but as you can see from the navy blue petal, I’m beginning to get the hang of it.<\/p>\n

The great attraction of this course for me is that we will have animations to show us the complex gold thread stitches that are the main focus of the course. At the end of the course, we’ll get a CD of these animations, so if I forget how to do one, I will be able to learn it again. Furthermore, some of Tricia’s recent posts on The Embroiderer’s Story<\/a> mention that she has discovered some new stitches during her research trip and she is hoping to add them as a bonus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now I am beginning to do the silk embroidery for the next Thistle Threads Online University Course, the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass. More gorgeous Au Ver A Soie silk thread to play with! Furthermore, some new stitches! I’m not keen on counted work, so when I saw a chart in the instructions, my… Continue Reading Beginning the Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[17,15,26,22,16,46],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","tag-new-techniques","tag-online-university","tag-silk-thread","tag-stitches","tag-thistle-threads","tag-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","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=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}