{"id":12943,"date":"2021-01-12T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:20:35","slug":"a-rather-belated-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/01\/12\/a-rather-belated-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A rather belated start.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some of you may recall that a year ago I worked Tanya Bentham<\/a>‘s kit of the Hounds in the period between Christmas and New Year, as a change of scale, material, and subject while my bigger projects were tucked away to make space for decorations. You may also recall that I bought a Trish Burr design, “Silkie The Ostrich”, from Au Ver A Soie<\/a>, to fill the same space in the turn of last year to this. And you may have been wondering why you hadn’t seen it yet…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, it took two goes to get the design transferred, for a start! When I tried at home, using the low-tech sunlight-through-the-window technique, there wasn’t enough sunlight! So I had to wash off the failed version and use my mother’s rather fabulous LED lightbox (we’re in a bubble, so no, it didn’t involve breaking lockdown rules).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more I invent and develop my own designs, the stranger it feels to follow instructions. This is still stranger, because the instructions are in French. I do speak French, but I didn’t do any embroidery when I lived there, so I don’t have any embroidery vocabulary. Not the least of the oddities of advancing years is finding which weird thing you couldn’t possibly have second-guessed you wish past-you had done…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this case, partly because I’m concerned about losing my design lines, I’m not following the order of working in the booklet of instructions. I’ve started by working all of the split stitch outlining. It’s all in a single strand of silk, so it’s questionable as to how much of a rest from my other projects this will give me, but I lost my heart to Silkie’s smile the moment I saw it, so I think it will be a rest in a different sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have reached Episode 43<\/a> of SlowTVStitchery, a rather short episode, owing to some difficulties with camera focus. I was beginning to tackle the full width of the piece, while pondering the challenges posed by Brahms and Messien, and the lectures given for Gresham College by the late Christopher Hogwood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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