{"id":12931,"date":"2021-03-16T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2021-05-15T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:34:30","slug":"finishing-the-stash-busting-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/16\/finishing-the-stash-busting-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Stash Busting Cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Remember this? Remember how suprised I was at just how much I was enjoying canvaswork?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found the last pattern in “Victorian Needlepoint” by Freda Parker, another one inherited in a bundle. I keep meaning to have a good rummage in that bookshelf, and work out what I want to keep, but as it is, it makes a good resouce when I’m looking for “something, I don’t know what, but I will know it when I see it”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since I’m stash busting, I used several different skein remnants for each colour on the chart, so the pattern has more variety than drawn. There are three shades in the very darkest sections, and I was surprised by how little difference two of them showed once they were stitched. You learn things at the oddest times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That panel is the last, by the way, because at this point I ran out of canvas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does, however, make a squarish, ornamental panel. If I can find some suitable fabric, I can give it a backing and turn it into a cushion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 52 of SlowTV Stitchery is now live, in which I challenge you all to name some works of fiction in which needlework has a prominent and positive role…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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