{"id":16203,"date":"2025-12-23T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16203"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:06:35","slug":"stellas-birds-starting-the-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/12\/23\/stellas-birds-starting-the-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella’s Birds – Starting the Embroidery.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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You have to start somewhere, don’t you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I had finally become happy with the design for Stella’s Birds, I thought it was Time To Start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you may remember that I mentioned when I was working on the Jacket of Many Flowers<\/a> that I have learnt, over the years, that when I’m working something like a spray or branch of flowers, leaves, and fruit, I need to start with the branches. In the past when I have started with leaves and flowers, the whole design has remained “spotty” and unconnected, and I don’t feel that I’m making progress.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Doesn't<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That’s so dispiriting that these days, I do the branches first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve used soft cotton in a warm pinky-brown, and chose one of my favourite stitches, Portuguese Knotted Stem Stitch<\/a> (link to the RSN stitch bank entry). It leaps forward very satisfyingly, so it didn’t take me long, once I got a chance to settle down to it, to get the branches done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t entirely paying attention.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"A<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I remembered to leave a gap for one of the bird’s tails, but not the other. And as I look at my other choices of thread, this pinky brown has no other friends. So I may decide, at a later date, to remove part of the branch stitching to allow for tails and feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a slight fear that I may even have to remove all of it. I love Portuguese Knotted Stem Stitch, but it is full of personality, and if I don’t get the balance right in the rest of the stitching it might unbalance the whole thing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You have to start somewhere, don’t you! Once I had finally become happy with the design for Stella’s Birds, I thought it was Time To Start. And you may remember that I mentioned when I was working on the Jacket of Many Flowers that I have learnt, over the years, that when I’m working something… Continue Reading Stella’s Birds – Starting the Embroidery..<\/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":[272,271,281,270,22],"class_list":["post-16203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-designing","tag-gentian-hill","tag-mountmellick-work","tag-stellas-birds","tag-stitches","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203","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=16203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16237,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16203\/revisions\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}