{"id":16349,"date":"2026-03-03T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16349"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:01:51","slug":"lotus-flower-coat-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/03\/lotus-flower-coat-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Flower Coat – Difficulties!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My idea for the stitching on the Lotus Flower Coat is that the petals will be filled with chain and feather stitch variations in a variety of threads and shades. White and cream for inside petals, white and cream with some lilac and pink on the outside petals and the half open flowers. I have plans for the leaves and stems, but we all know how my projects change under my feet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This – one of the small petal tips that show the inside – shows how this developed in the early stages. I think the tapestry wool is too heavy, so that’s coming out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mindful of the difficulties I sometimes have with repetition, I decided to work across the whole open flower at once, and at the point of writing, it had got to this, on the right. And at this point, I rather lost my nerve. I wasn’t sure what was wrong, or why, I was just rather unhappy with it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So I decided to try an entirely different approach on one of the half open flowers, to see whether that helped at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has. I don’t like this at all, heavy, clumsy, not at all conveying the sense of enchantment I have from looking at my assorted source materials, or the sense of enchantment Mary Chubb describes in her first encounter with the Lotus Tile Fragment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look, I said that Dreams of Amarna had come to a satisfying and coherent conclusion – I never said that it would never guide my needle again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My idea for the stitching on the Lotus Flower Coat is that the petals will be filled with chain and feather stitch variations in a variety of threads and shades. White and cream for inside petals, white and cream with some lilac and pink on the outside petals and the half open flowers. I have… Continue Reading Lotus Flower Coat – Difficulties!<\/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":[124,155,301,104],"class_list":["post-16349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apparel","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-lotus-flower-jacket","tag-lotus-tile-fragment","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349","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=16349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16377,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16349\/revisions\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}