{"id":15322,"date":"2024-08-27T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2024-07-30T22:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T21:18:49","slug":"finishing-the-golden-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/27\/finishing-the-golden-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Golden Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since I made the mistake of losing the fabric and then picking a fabric of the wrong count, and what’s more, when I looked at the finished pieces they were none of them even the same proportion, I decided to abandon all thought of turning them into accessories for a workbox I don’t have, and just made little pads, backed with silk and edged with pretty braids from Thistle Threads. The two outer ones are Russian Braid, and the inner one – the last and largest – is in Silk Serpentine Gimp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pads are made using two heavy pieces of pelmet vilene, or something similar. I tacked the silk on as if it were English paper piecing, but the linen I sewed in place on the inside. Then caught back and front together with overstitching, and then went round again, attaching the braids. Someone on better terms with glue might have risked using it, but I am not that person!<\/p>\n\n\n

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They are now propped up inside the parlour dome with the other Online University pieces, and sit on a coffee table in the living room. I am slightly astonished that no one who’s visited us since I set it up has ever commented on the dazzling intricacies on display, but then, maybe they’re enjoying the conversation too much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I made the mistake of losing the fabric and then picking a fabric of the wrong count, and what’s more, when I looked at the finished pieces they were none of them even the same proportion, I decided to abandon all thought of turning them into accessories for a workbox I don’t have, and… Continue Reading Finishing the Golden Accessories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[80,158,15,16],"class_list":["post-15322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","tag-golden-accessories","tag-goldwork","tag-online-university","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322","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=15322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15326,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}