{"id":13019,"date":"2021-04-06T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2021-05-15T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:39:33","slug":"the-amarna-family-group-may-be-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/06\/the-amarna-family-group-may-be-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amarna Family Group May Be Finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Of course, as I was unpicking the seat, I had to unpick more than just the seat so that I could get to the stitches I needed to unpick (are you keeping up?!). I suppose I should have seen it coming, but the result was some rather uncontrolled gold thread flapping loose. I found myself becoming very afraid that I would end up crossing the gold thread, and that would never do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I found a nice, slippy machine thread and used it to tack down the thread in the middle of the unstitched area. I didn’t want to be too thorough, in case I ended up leaving gaps that weren’t there originally, but at the same time I had to control all the threads..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reinstating the seat was actually rather less troubling than Akhenaten’s kilt, which required some extra thinking about, because of course pleats falling close together, and pleats opened a little as they curve around the body look rather different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this is now at the stage where I need to start considering how to mount it, which in turn means, I think, deciding how to assemble a velvet-covered stela. I may need some help…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Episode 55 of SlowTV Stitchery is now live, in which I declare a Year of Experiments, muse on lessons from The Camberwell, and consider the need to develop thread-wrangling techniques.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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