{"id":13016,"date":"2021-09-07T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2021-08-24T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:28:56","slug":"christmas-angel-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/07\/christmas-angel-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Angel Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/revision.php?revision=13038&amp;gutenberg=true\">3 Revisions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished-733x1024.png\" alt=\"The Christmas Angel is finished. A background of different shades of gold, the Angel in red and green outlined in heavily textured gold thread\" class=\"wp-image-13004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished-733x1024.png 733w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished-768x1073.png 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChristmasAngelFinished.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So here we are. All the gold canvaswork completed, the Angel outlined in different weights of thread, given tightly curled hair in French Knots, and now ready for however I work out how to mount her and turn her into something pleasing, and useful to decorate the house next Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t given the Angel a face, and I don&#8217;t think I will. It&#8217;s distressingly easy for &#8220;sweet&#8221; or &#8220;joyful&#8221; to become &#8220;disturbingly weird&#8221; with faces, especially when there is so little space, and relatively few stitches to manoevre with. If I experience an inspiration, I&#8217;ll reconsider, at least until I&#8217;ve mounted her. At the moment I&#8217;m looking for a sufficiently tall and wide cardboard tube that I can cut in half. Alternatively, I need to be very clever indeed about my card engineering&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It really only took as long as it did &#8211; it was begun in 2015 &#8211; largely because there was a lot of background, and it was remarkably tricky to find a rhythm to the pattern. Once I did so, it became much easier, and fairly romped away. Before that time, it spent a considerable period hidden away because &#8211; not having found the rhythm &#8211; it just made me grumpy to look at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Revisions So here we are. All the gold canvaswork completed, the Angel outlined in different weights of thread, given tightly curled hair in French Knots, and now ready for however I work out how to mount her and turn her into something pleasing, and useful to decorate the house next Christmas. I haven&#8217;t given&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/07\/christmas-angel-finished\/\">Continue Reading Christmas Angel Finished<\/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":[40,163,160],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlepoint","tag-canvaswork","tag-christmas-angel","tag-needlepoint","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","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=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13248,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions\/13248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}