{"id":12557,"date":"2020-06-09T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12557"},"modified":"2020-08-22T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T13:39:09","slug":"progress-on-a-project-long-in-abeyance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/09\/progress-on-a-project-long-in-abeyance\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on a project long in abeyance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Playing<\/a>
Playing With Greens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You may recall this tablecloth, which I won in a job lot of things in an auction on eBay, a long time ago. I regarded it as my “traveling project” for a while, but didn’t travel much, or when I got there, found I couldn’t settle to it, and it’s been lingering and hanging over my head rather. It may well be that the current situation will give me the opportunity to get it finished. It will make a change from the details of the Amarna Family Group<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, since I’d forgotten what I’d planned (or if I’d planned!), I laid it out on the floor and played around with skeins of cotton, to see what I could come up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Basque<\/a>
Basque Stitch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The way I’ve worked on the tablecloth is that as I’ve what to do with each motif, I’ve worked each instance, and that way the whole tablecloth advances at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Basque Stitch of these leaves is rather more spaced out than in the previous appearance of that stitch in the tablecloth – spacing, as well as scale, plays a part in altering the appearance and emphasis of a stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Coral<\/a>
Coral Stitch Outline<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Coral Stitch is nice and simple. Such a nice rest…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I know the concept of or nu\u00e9<\/a> is simple, but the execution isn’t, believe me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, speaking of or nu\u00e9, Episode 12<\/a> of SlowTVStitchery is up! Do go and have a quiet half hour with me…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may recall this tablecloth, which I won in a job lot of things in an auction on eBay, a long time ago. I regarded it as my “traveling project” for a while, but didn’t travel much, or when I got there, found I couldn’t settle to it, and it’s been lingering and hanging over… Continue Reading Progress on a project long in abeyance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22,214,38],"class_list":["post-12557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts","tag-stitches","tag-tablecloth","tag-transfers","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","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=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12726,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}