{"id":12924,"date":"2021-02-16T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2021-04-20T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:25:09","slug":"continuing-the-stash-busting-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/16\/continuing-the-stash-busting-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing the stash busting cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Inventions-300x279.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Inventions-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Inventions-768x714.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Inventions.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second, simpler version of the stripes works better &#8211; much better. I like the deepening colours, and the change of spacing creates a changing rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next band uses three different yellows to make little diamond shapes, alternating darks and lights &#8211; although as the darks and lights looked closer togther when stitched than on the hank, the alternations don&#8217;t show as much as I thought they would!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Knotwork-275x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Knotwork-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Knotwork-768x838.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Knotwork.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I became a little ambitious after that, and found a celtic knotwork pattern in a book (Celtic Needlepoint, by Alice Starmore) I inherited with a bundle of other things from a local lady who seems to have been as adventurous with her needle as I am, but with a greater emphasis on counted work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went astray a couple of times. Knotwork patterns are a little taxing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FalseChain-1-209x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FalseChain-1-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FalseChain-1-714x1024.png 714w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FalseChain-1-768x1101.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/FalseChain-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t quite recovered from tyeing myself in knots when I did the next narrow band. This was intended to be a chain link pattern, but I ended up with something else &#8211; what, I&#8217;m not quite sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The next Episode of #SlowTVStitchery is now live &#8211; remembering the agony of unpicking Akhenaten&#8217;s seat, while considering the question of the right style of detail to add to a design, with particular reference to the Christmas Angel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SlowTVStitcheryEpisode48\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gg-4mrDmL4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second, simpler version of the stripes works better &#8211; much better. 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The next band uses three different yellows to make little diamond shapes, alternating darks and lights &#8211; although as the darks and lights looked closer togther when stitched than&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/16\/continuing-the-stash-busting-cushion\/\">Continue Reading Continuing the stash busting cushion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,103,232],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlepoint","tag-canvaswork","tag-embroidery-for-interior-decoration","tag-stash-busting","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","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=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}