{"id":15126,"date":"2024-05-21T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15126"},"modified":"2024-04-20T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T15:38:21","slug":"some-thoughts-on-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/21\/some-thoughts-on-the-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts on the Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FurtherThoughts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FurtherThoughts-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Some test stitching for the &quot;path&quot; sections of the parterre. Both of them look a bit busy.\" class=\"wp-image-15105\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FurtherThoughts-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FurtherThoughts-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FurtherThoughts.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While I&#8217;m thinking about the large octagonal borders (they&#8217;re proving very tricky to plan!), I&#8217;m also thinking about the &#8220;path&#8221; section. I really like both of these stitches, but they are both much too close in scale to the stitches in the border, and I think they&#8217;d be much too busy as well. The path is much the largest area, and I need to keep it from fighting with the borders. There needs to be some calm somewhere!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FirstThought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FirstThought.jpg\" alt=\"Several variations of yarn and thickness of thread in a single stitch.\" class=\"wp-image-15104\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FirstThought.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FirstThought-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/FirstThought-768x848.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is more promising, but the lower experiment with lots of different colour combinations and thicknesses is also too busy. I think if I can stretch out the variations to create larger sections and make the colour changes less strident, this might work. The stitch grows quite quickly, as well. I just hope my stash is equal to the task&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t intending to start on the path yet, but given the already-referred-to difficulties I&#8217;m having with the octagonal borders , I wanted to be making progress somewhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m thinking about the large octagonal borders (they&#8217;re proving very tricky to plan!), I&#8217;m also thinking about the &#8220;path&#8221; section. I really like both of these stitches, but they are both much too close in scale to the stitches in the border, and I think they&#8217;d be much too busy as well. The path&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/21\/some-thoughts-on-the-path\/\">Continue Reading Some Thoughts on the Path<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,294,261,160],"class_list":["post-15126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canvaswork","tag-canvaswork-parterre","tag-knot-garden","tag-needlepoint","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126","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=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15169,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/15169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}