{"id":12979,"date":"2021-02-09T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2021-04-20T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:22:26","slug":"reporting-on-the-christmas-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/09\/reporting-on-the-christmas-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting on the Christmas Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge-795x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12973\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/finishedloweredge\/\" class=\"wp-image-12973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge-795x1024.png 795w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge-768x990.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/FinishedLowerEdge.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ForgottenTopEdge.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12965\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ForgottenTopEdge.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/forgottentopedge\/\" class=\"wp-image-12965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ForgottenTopEdge.png 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ForgottenTopEdge-288x300.png 288w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ForgottenTopEdge-768x800.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have been watching the videos, you will know how the Angel has been going, but it&#8217;s sometimes helpful to see things straight-on, which my videoing set up doesn&#8217;t achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingCouchingThreads.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingCouchingThreads-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12968\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I got to the bottom edge and felt very pleased with myself &#8211; only to discover that not only was the top edge not done, but working the pattern in the other direction is slightly trickier than you  might expect! It only slowed me down by a week or so, so not too serious&#8230;  The next decision was about how to edge the angel, which edges, and with what. I&#8217;ve gone for a mixture of threads and cords so far, making different choices depending upon the sort of edge and how emphatic I want it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingWingPatterns.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingWingPatterns-258x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingWingPatterns-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingWingPatterns-768x893.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/TriallingWingPatterns.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I know I haven&#8217;t done the hair yet! I&#8217;m still not sure how, and I want all the gold done first, so I know what the hair has to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment I have tacking stitches in place for the wing patterns, while I stare and try to decide which I want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And while we all consider that, I can report that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/509786217\" target=\"_blank\">Episode 47<\/a> of SlowTV Stitchery is now live, in which we return to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/amarna-family-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amarna Family Group<\/a> to add some details, recollect the working of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/akhenaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colossus of Akhenaten<\/a>, and discuss needle choice and other technical aspects of the additional details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been watching the videos, you will know how the Angel has been going, but it&#8217;s sometimes helpful to see things straight-on, which my videoing set up doesn&#8217;t achieve. I got to the bottom edge and felt very pleased with myself &#8211; only to discover that not only was the top edge not&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/09\/reporting-on-the-christmas-angel\/\">Continue Reading Reporting on the Christmas Angel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,163],"class_list":["post-12979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canvaswork","tag-christmas-angel","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","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=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12998,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions\/12998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}