{"id":15556,"date":"2025-01-28T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15556"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:55:39","slug":"hawk-in-a-clear-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/28\/hawk-in-a-clear-blue-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk in a clear blue sky…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good, optimistic start to the creative year, here, with my first bit of stitching for Placidus – who’s only been in the planning stage for a decade or so!<\/p>\n\n\n

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You will see from the progress pictures that I was absolutely rocketing along the edge of catastrophe curve here, very little planning, and just alternating staring at my source and stitching. This is the way I tackled Ankhsenspaaten<\/a>, and a few other pieces, and it’s very much the way I prefer to paint. But it’s highly uncertain as to success, and I may come back in a few years and try again.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Clicking through will show you how little guidance I’d put on the gauze, and how little it showed once there. Furthermore, I was in such a fever of impatience to start that I used neither frame nor hoop, working in the hand instead. I won’t do that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Until next time I do it..)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve mostly used silk perle, which is lovely, and the particular bundles I’m using I’ve had in my stash for decades. I use it, but it’s quite fine, and until recently I’ve preferred to work with rather more solid materials. We also discovered, when my grandfather’s carer boil washed a tray cloth I’d embroidered for him, that the colours aren’t washfast. Not a problem in this case: a panel hanging on the wall, using a wild mix of materials, is unlikely to be boil washed unless by someone deliberately seeking to destroy it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the meantime, if it is to work in the eventual piece, it will need to be savagely blocked or pressed to get the crinkles out of it – not because my tension was tight, but because the stitching is filling up the spaces between the fabric threads and making them move and misbehave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t mind – I’ve already pinned it out, and I’m just so pleased to have made a start on the Vision of Placidus<\/a> at last!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update: I showed this to The Australian, who immediately started singing the Hawthorn team song (Australian rules football). Go, Hawks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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