{"id":2313,"date":"2010-11-30T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2015-08-06T20:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T19:36:21","slug":"the-felucca-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/30\/the-felucca-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Felucca Is Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9266\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Felucca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9266\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Felucca-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"The Felucca\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Felucca-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Felucca.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Felucca<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have finished the first trial of the Felucca design. As I always say of these design fragments, I do not yet know whether they will make it to the final piece.<\/p>\n<p>You can barely see the stitching on the coastline &#8211; I used a fine thread and spaced the stitches far apart. For the cargo, I crammed the stitches as close to one another as I could. The sails are worked in Satin Stitches rather than darning, and the spars in Stem Stitches. I&#8217;ve decided I am happy with the pinkish tinge on the sails, and the greenish Nile is just as I imagined it would be.<\/p>\n<p>I think it has worked. The reflections of the sails bring the whole piece to life, and I added some small stitches to provide an impression of a reflection of the spars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished the first trial of the Felucca design. As I always say of these design fragments, I do not yet know whether they will make it to the final piece. You can barely see the stitching on the coastline &#8211; I used a fine thread and spaced the stitches far apart. For the&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/30\/the-felucca-is-finished\/\">Continue Reading The Felucca Is 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":[3,1],"tags":[24,155,25,54,18],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","category-uncategorized","tag-design-elements","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-experiments","tag-felucca","tag-overdyed-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9280,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/9280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}