{"id":1672,"date":"2010-09-28T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:30:25","slug":"jacobean-work-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/28\/jacobean-work-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobean Work Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jacobean Panel<\/p><\/div>\n

This design is from a transfer I picked up in a hurry a few years ago so as to have something to stitch while on holiday. It went swimmingly for a while and then ran into a brick wall and I have only just finished it.<\/p>\n

The threads are wool and cotton, with a little bit of rayon. I intended the panel as a companion for my Jacobean Firescreen, so the colours of teal, brown and gold more or less chose themselves. There aren’t as many overdyed threads as I sometimes use, but that allows me to experiment all the more with the stitches.<\/p>\n

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Jacobean Panel Close Up 1<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I picked it up again, I’ve used it to play with some of the stitches which are new to me that I found in my copy of Yvette Stanton<\/a>‘s Right Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. The whole thing became much more fun at that point!<\/p>\n

So here, for example, the centre of the flower is worked in Spiral Trellis Stitch<\/a>. I used a single strand, round thread overdyed in rust brown and purple, and although it was hair-raising to stitch, because I felt I was twisting myself in a spiral at the same time,\u00a0 I think it is rather successful.\u00a0 It’s not perfect, but I’ll do better another time, and I do think it looks rather good!<\/p>\n

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Jacobean Panel Close Up 2<\/p><\/div>\n

The dark brown rather lacy stem is worked in Mountmellick thorn stitch – another new one. Here I used one strand of a three-stranded cotton yarn. I think it would look better in a slightly heavier yarn, but it was fun to do and I will use this stitch again. The calyx of the strange fruit shows two of my favourite stitches – Cable Chain<\/a> and Portuguese Knotted Stem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely content with either of the flowers, but as I’m not sure why I shall leave well alone. Both of them have been unpicked at least twice, and I don’t want to wear out the fabric…\u00a0 Still, now it’s finished, I enjoyed working this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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