{"id":15865,"date":"2025-07-22T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:50:31","slug":"another-purple-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/22\/another-purple-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Another purple bag…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I thought I rather fancied tackling plaited braid stitch again, using the same variegated thread as for the chain stitch fernery. However, when I gave it a go, it turned out to be a poor thread for the stitch – too floppy, and too easily pierced. It’s not obvious, but there’s a glitter thread running through it, which interferes with the cohesion of the strands. Oh well, I’ll find somewhere else for the plaited braid stitch!<\/p>\n\n\n

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After some thought, I had a go at Mountmellick Thorn stitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s better. And this one isn’t going to be an all-over pattern like the fernery. Instead,I’ve done two vaguely treelike shapes, back to back, with Hungarian Braided Chain (I’ll get a braid in there somewhere!) providing the ground level.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then I felt that maybe it would be useful to work the same Mountmellick Thorn stitch but at different proportions, so that I have a comparison. That’s in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also trying to work out how to line and assemble them neatly. I’m intending to use my little hand cranked Jones sewing machine, but as I’ve managed to bruise a couple of ribs and interfere with picking up that sort of awkward and heavy weight, I’m a bit unwilling to promise a prompt finish here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I thought I rather fancied tackling plaited braid stitch again, using the same variegated thread as for the chain stitch fernery. However, when I gave it a go, it turned out to be a poor thread for the stitch – too floppy, and too easily pierced. It’s not obvious, but there’s a glitter thread running… Continue Reading Another purple bag…<\/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":[22],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stitches","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","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=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15896,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}