{"id":15047,"date":"2024-03-05T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:16:38","slug":"finishing-william-the-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/05\/finishing-william-the-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing William The Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When we left William, I had just embarked on the underside couching, not without some trepidation, I have to say!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stuck closely – one might say, religiously – to the advice about working underside couching that Tanya Bentham gives in her book about Opus Anglicanum. That is to say, no more than about half an hour at a time, no more than three sessions a day. In fact I think Tanya says 45 minutes, but I rapidly learnt that I lost focus and precision about the 33 minute mark, and two sessions were very much better for me than three.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Progress<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

If you click on any of these pictures to expand them, (they should open in a separate window) you will certainly see some of the infelicities in my workings here – scraggly bits of fabric showing, unevennesses in the pattern, all sorts of misadventures. There were even a couple of points where the fabric, doubled though it was, gave way at points, necessitating all manner of ingenuity. I suspect that my tension was adrift, as I have a definite tendency to pull too tight on my stitches, especially if I’m concentrating on the unfamiliar.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"William<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

However, judge for yourselves whether I shouldn’t be pretty pleased with myself…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do, of course, have to work out how I’m going to mount him, and on what, and it may be that in the end the lines of red, yellow, and green framing the border will need to be redone in some fashion. I like them as an idea, but as I move on to Aethelflaed, Rahere, and the Lady Julian, how much of a unity do I want to retain, and how on earth would I embody it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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