{"id":2022,"date":"2010-12-10T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T09:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2010-12-02T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T20:38:00","slug":"grandmamas-spectacle-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/10\/grandmamas-spectacle-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmama\u2019s Spectacle Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2023\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BargelloSpectacleCase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2023\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BargelloSpectacleCase.jpg\" alt=\"Spectacle Case in Bargello\" width=\"300\" height=\"589\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectacle Case in Bargello, worked for Grandmama<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I finished the Dragon Footstool I had some wool and some canvas left, and so I made a companion piece &#8211; a spectacle case so that Grandmama would be able to find her sunglasses in her handbag. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s in the lighter colours.<\/p>\n<p>It is a simple bargello pattern &#8211; in fact the simplest, most basic Florentine Flame pattern there is, and the charted initial is very simple too.<\/p>\n<p>When I consider the range of stitches in the Dragon Footstool, I can&#8217;t help but wonder why I didn&#8217;t go for a more complex pattern, but I had painted the Dragon and this was charted &#8211; in fact, in the same book (<strong><em>The Readers Digest Guide to Needlework<\/em><\/strong>). Maybe that had something to do with it. I&#8217;ve always found charted pieces somewhat problematic. I have a tendency to lose interest in counting, which is a very bad idea in a charted piece\u00a0 &#8211; in fact it is one of the reasons I have other projects going on while I&#8217;m working on the charted motifs for the <a title=\"Posts tagged Tudor and Stuart Goldwork masterclass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/tag\/tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass\/\">Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Grandmama was happy with it, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished the Dragon Footstool I had some wool and some canvas left, and so I made a companion piece &#8211; a spectacle case so that Grandmama would be able to find her sunglasses in her handbag. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s in the lighter colours. It is a simple bargello pattern &#8211; in fact the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/10\/grandmamas-spectacle-case\/\">Continue Reading Grandmama\u2019s Spectacle Case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[41,40,160],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-needlepoint","tag-bargello","tag-canvaswork","tag-needlepoint","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}