{"id":14568,"date":"2023-06-06T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14568"},"modified":"2023-04-19T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T20:20:37","slug":"finishing-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/06\/finishing-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing The Family"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The next challenge was to work out how to attach the Family to the navy blue velvet stele I had prepared for them. It was a bit too awkwardly sized for the various tables I have tried to work on – or they were at entirely the wrong height – so I ended up perched on a stool beside the ironing board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s the phrase? Adapt, improvise, and overcome!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I keep trying to make use of my Grandmama’s curved needles. For some reason it has become one of those skills I am determined to master. Goodness, I wish I’d asked Grandmama how she managed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, I began to feel that maybe I was getting the hang of the idea. Gradually. Work speeded up a little after I managed to remove a burr from the point, restoring the proper sharpness. <\/p>\n\n\n

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I was a bit baffled to begin with as to how to remove that burr, but a question on Mastodon elicited several replies in varying detail. I used a nail file, since you ask (lowest tech solution), although one of my friends suggested a dart sharpener – which I never even knew was a thing that existed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a lot of mounting embroidery in my future, so I suppose I am going to get the hang of it – or go stark crazy, of course, always an option!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, several stitching sessions later – the Family had to stand on their heads for their closeups, to bring themselves into reasonable range of the camera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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