{"id":12597,"date":"2020-07-28T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:50:21","slug":"the-lady-in-the-garden-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/28\/the-lady-in-the-garden-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lady In The Garden – Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Up<\/a>
Up And Down Blanket Stitch<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In a slight variation of what Grandmama did, I used Up and Down Blanket Stitch, which is one of my favourites, to work the purple section of the edging. It’s not as comfortable to work as an edging stitch as it is as a surface stitch, but I enjoyed it (as usual), and I’m pleased with how it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Green<\/a>
Green Herringbone<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The second layer of the edging was in herringbone stitch, just as Grandmama worked it, but using a pale apple green instead of the pink. It will work much better in Mam’s room that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve used two strands of cotton, which is what Grandmama did. I suspect that’s why the edging has collapsed in spite of not being used for decades!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Darn<\/a>
Darn In Place<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’m not as satisfied with the darn, but I think it should stop the hole getting worse, and I’ve had a variety of suggestions for tracking down a suitable material to patch it with. At the best of times, that would be a tricky task, and in the current situation, it may well be years before I find something!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progress continues in other areas, too – Episode Nineteen<\/a> of SlowTV Stitchery is now up. It concerns, among other things, flyaway thread and the importance of writing things down…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a slight variation of what Grandmama did, I used Up and Down Blanket Stitch, which is one of my favourites, to work the purple section of the edging. It’s not as comfortable to work as an edging stitch as it is as a surface stitch, but I enjoyed it (as usual), and I’m pleased… Continue Reading The Lady In The Garden – Progress<\/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":[28,194,29,227,226],"class_list":["post-12597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grandmamas-embroidery","tag-household","tag-miss-hunter","tag-repairs","tag-the-lady-in-the-garden","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","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=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12764,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}