{"id":15334,"date":"2024-09-17T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15334"},"modified":"2024-08-15T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:49:14","slug":"parterre-no-these-are-the-final-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/17\/parterre-no-these-are-the-final-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Parterre – no, these are the final stages!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So you may recall that, when last seen, I was working the Surrey Stitch boss for the centre of the Parterre. This is something else that uses a lot of thread, so I had a nervous time wondering whether I would run out of the wool I wanted to use before I finished it. And because the stitches were pushed down for quite a while as I was working it, I tied some thread around the finished stitches for a few days to help them stand up to be trimmed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then I realised that some of those stitches were still loops and might not be standing up to where they should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the semi-final trim took a bit longer than I perhaps hoped, and is maybe not quite as short and trim as it should be. That’s because I don’t have enough wool to do it again, and I am absolutely terrified of trimming it too short!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, any further trim can wait – it’s something that can be done off the frame, and I wanted to see how the whole Parterre had turned out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pretty well, I think. It is squarer than it looks, I just need to block it a bit to take the frame-kinks out of the canvas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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