{"id":13562,"date":"2021-11-09T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2021-11-04T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:27:44","slug":"a-sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/09\/a-sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A sign of the times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It has occurred to me that one of the reminders of the past two years will be in the number of garments that have masks to go with them. I am planning two dresses for myself, and even though I doubt I’ll get to wear them until times are much less alarming, I’m going to make matching masks, just to be prepared!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having finished the Jacket of Many Stitches, signed it in Morse Code (of course!), and noting that it’s definitely a garment for chillier weather, I thought that some winter-weight masks might be in order. So I took a pattern from one of the bought ones we’ve got, and drew myself some ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have some cream wool left over from a jacket I lost in Paris when I was working there. I’ve always regretted that jacket, so I’m hoping that using the leftovers for something else will reduce the sting a little. It’s been thirty years, so it’s about time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was trickier than I expected to get my motifs small enough to fit on the mask, especially since I decided to use up some of the fragments of leftover felt at the same time, and sometimes I was a bit short of felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started off with a little butterfly, and made him quite simple, enlivened with a thread with a bit of sparkle in it. I think it’s a machine thread, and the sparkle goes from gold to brown and back. I made up that mask, and realised that it was a bit on the small side. It does cover everything it needs to, it’s just that I prefer to feel there’s a bit of extra space in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So I tweaked my pattern a little, and drew my idea for the motifs on the fabric. At which point I realised that the pencil wouldn’t rub out, so I running stitched over the lines and turned the fabric over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing to see here, folks, moving on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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