{"id":12778,"date":"2020-10-20T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12778"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T13:13:24","slug":"another-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/20\/another-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Another UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve been finding long-hidden projects again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one is a cotton fabric bag with a strip of aida inserted in one side, which I think was a subscribers’ gift for Needlecraft magazine, some time in the distant past. In DevaStitch Designs days, I created a range inspired by the Bizarreware of Clarice Cliff (with the approval of Wedgwood, the rights holders), and I suspect that my original idea for the design was to add it to the range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then something happened and the bag disappeared into a box for what feels like centuries. I’ve found it again, and this time I am determined to finish the wretched thing, and start using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has become clear that the aida is slightly off-grain, but it’s not likely to show when the piece is in use. If I were to make a bag with a cross stitched element I would work the cross stitch separately and apply it afterwords, so that the straight grain was indeed straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing to do was to finish the black outlines, which are such a distinctive part of the Clarice Cliff style, and which will make everything else simply a matter of colouring in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to invent a bush or two, because my chart didn’t cover all the fabric I had available, but once the windmill and extra bushes were in place I continued with the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I got slightly tired of blue and gave myself a bit of a rest by filling in the windmill. I have more to do, of course, but I think it will be quite cheerful when it is finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SlowTV Stitchery Episode 31<\/a> is now live, in which progress continues to be made, and some thought is given (again) to the eventual mounting of the piece.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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