{"id":12623,"date":"2020-08-25T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T16:55:54","slug":"grape-hyacinths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/25\/grape-hyacinths\/","title":{"rendered":"Grape Hyacinths, 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Now<\/a>
Now This Is A UFO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now this is definitely a UFO (UnFinished Object). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would help, of course, if I could remember why I was doing it – other than that I’ve always loved grape hyacinths!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly the leaf needs to be finished, but looking at it again, I’ve decided that I don’t like the way that I originally worked the flower heads, and I need to unpick them and start again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know how I’m going to do them, or what I’ll do with it when I’m finished, but at least I have a starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Leaf<\/a>
Leaf Completed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So here we are – the leaf is completed, with some added darker stitching to help throw the smaller leaf forward a little. The stitching is a mixture of chain and reverse chain, stem stitch and outline stitch, and I’m quite pleased with how it conveys the texture of the leaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, out with the scissors and much snipping and pulling out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still not sure how to do the flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I’ve been keeping on with the Amarna Family, and the video – number twenty three<\/a>, would you believe! – is now live<\/em>. It contains musings on fabric to cover a stele.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now this is definitely a UFO (UnFinished Object). It would help, of course, if I could remember why I was doing it – other than that I’ve always loved grape hyacinths! Clearly the leaf needs to be finished, but looking at it again, I’ve decided that I don’t like the way that I originally worked… Continue Reading Grape Hyacinths, 1<\/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":[77],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-surface-embroidery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","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=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12768,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions\/12768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}