{"id":12643,"date":"2020-09-08T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2020-09-26T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T15:49:18","slug":"japanese-embroidery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/08\/japanese-embroidery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Embroidery, 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Flower<\/a>
Flower Petals and Buds<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Once the padding was done, the next stage was the flower petals. These were fairly quickly done, in satin stitch. I tried to keep the stitches in the right orientation by starting in the middle of each petal and working the halves separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have I mentioned before how much I love the effect you get with flat silk? The stitches almost glow, even in poor light!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The instructions for the other elements weren’t quite as clear as I expected them to be, although I can’t quite put my finger on why. That said, I could fill in the gaps with a bit of guesswork, so it’s all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

French knots for the flower centres, using hand twisted thread. I found the needle harder to thread here, because the twisted thread was quite heavy, and it untwisted easily, too. This is a problem I’ve noticed with my hand twisted thread before, and I’d love to know whether there is anything to do to avoid it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Forget<\/a>
Forget Me Nots<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The leaves were satin stitch, again in twisted silk, while the stems were in stem stitch. The pattern didn’t specify, but I took absense of specification to indicate using the silk untwisted. It keeps the stems light and delicate, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, finally, after nearly thirty years, I’ve finished the forget-me-nots!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I just need a pot to put them in….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next episode of Slow TV Stitchery is up – Episode 25<\/a> – on reaching the fourth border, and the pleasures of lute music. Do go and have a look!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once the padding was done, the next stage was the flower petals. These were fairly quickly done, in satin stitch. I tried to keep the stitches in the right orientation by starting in the middle of each petal and working the halves separately. Have I mentioned before how much I love the effect you get… Continue Reading Japanese Embroidery, 2<\/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":[228,26],"class_list":["post-12643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japanese-embroidery","tag-silk-thread","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643","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=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12770,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions\/12770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}