{"id":16415,"date":"2026-05-05T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:18:34","slug":"stellas-birds-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/05\/stellas-birds-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella’s Birds Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Design<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Once I got the design settled for Stella’s Birds, the principle elements remained pretty much unchanged when I got the stitching done. The details, not so much. The drawing shows where I intended to put most of the raised sections and the patterning. Note: intended!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ended up not filling in any of the bodies of the birds, to leave the effect a little lighter and less blocky. Every time I tried to fill them in, they went grumpy at me, and if nothing else, I’ve learnt to pay attention when my embroidery shouts at me! Furthermore, Stabby has a leading edge, rather than a shoulder, and I simplified the structural details slightly, using the same stitch for all the curlicues, and another same stitch for all the stalks for the leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n

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

If you recall, the idea was to create something that might evoke the idea of a light, carved wood, but using a technique reminiscent of Mountmellick Embroidery. It gave me a chance to use some well-beloved stitches, and to rejoice in the textural effects available from those stitches and the choice of threads to stitch them with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m pleased with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once I got the design settled for Stella’s Birds, the principle elements remained pretty much unchanged when I got the stitching done. The details, not so much. The drawing shows where I intended to put most of the raised sections and the patterning. Note: intended! I ended up not filling in any of the bodies… Continue Reading Stella’s Birds Finished<\/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":[272,25,271,281,14,270,22],"class_list":["post-16415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-designing","tag-experiments","tag-gentian-hill","tag-mountmellick-work","tag-ornamental-stitches","tag-stellas-birds","tag-stitches","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415","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=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16501,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions\/16501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}