{"id":12899,"date":"2021-01-19T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12899"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:21:46","slug":"more-stash-busting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/19\/more-stash-busting\/","title":{"rendered":"More Stash Busting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the clearest demonstration yet – at least in embroidery terms – that we are in the End Times, I have embarked on some stash busting counted tent stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rather enjoyed working on the Stash Busting Footstool, and there was a bit of canvas left on the frame when I’d made it, so I reattached the cut end, rifled through what was left of the tapestry wool, and started to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since I don’t know how far my wools will stretch, my sole “design” is to take the idea of making a fabric from ornamental ribbons, alternating broad and narrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This vine pattern is based on one in “Needlepoint” from Ebury Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next two “ribbons” I made up as I went along – one narrow, light pattern in two shades of yellow, and another broad one, this one distinctly made-up-as-I-went-along. It was very vaguely inspired by another in “Needlepoint”, which in turn claimed to be inspired by a Persian pattern. I have my doubts, but in any case, even when I tried to have a sensible pattern of spacing, I ended up with something of a mishmash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have noticed that the “neutral” in the two broad stripes is not the same colour. I’m going to try to alternate these as backgrounds, unless and until I start to need to blend them together to fill the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Third band and false start<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next, narrow, band, is a chequerboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the stripe part of this next pattern, but after working the baubles, I looked again and decided that they weren’t quite working. I was trying for a mix of shapes, a bit of variety, and something to change the spacing of the stripes, but not this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while you assimilate the shock of me happily doing counted work – Episode 44<\/a> of Slow TV Stitchery is now live. In which we discuss the EES as an early crowd-funded organisation, my ambitions to hold a Dreams of Amarna exhibition, and whether “medieval muddle” is an idea purely from 19th Century northern Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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