{"id":2771,"date":"2011-07-19T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T08:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2011-06-13T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:07:29","slug":"australian-wildlife-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/19\/australian-wildlife-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian wildlife &#8211; backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2786\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EucalyptusLeaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2786\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EucalyptusLeaves.jpg\" alt=\"Eucalyptus Leaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EucalyptusLeaves.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EucalyptusLeaves-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eucalyptus Leaves<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the hallmarks of Australian Embroidery, as shown in the  magazines, is a willingness to mix techniques and &#8220;play&#8221;. So while I  have no idea of how I am going to show the Rosella, I&#8217;ve been thinking  in terms of creating a background of tessellated Eucalyptus leaves, one  way or another. There are several ways this could be achieved, which  would be to some degree in the spirit of what I have read, and I still  haven&#8217;t worked out which to use. Although I hate working samples, I may  have to do so this time, as I haven&#8217;t the faintest idea whether they  will work!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For example, the simplest, once I&#8217;ve developed and charted a  tessellation, would be to work the background on canvas, using complete  coverage. That might be a little dull..<\/li>\n<li>Another possibility would be to use a painted canvas or to overlay  the canvas with gauze, and then just work the leaf shapes themselves and  leave everything else un-stitched. I like that idea, but I think it  will need playing with, to get the right gauge of thread to provide  suitable coverage and at the same time not puncture the gauze too  obviously. I won&#8217;t be able to unpick it either, so stitching it might be  a nervy business!<\/li>\n<li>Then there is the possibility of using waste canvas over a felt or a  linen background fabric, so I can chart the tessellation without being  stuck with canvas as the whole background.<\/li>\n<li>Finally &#8211; although this is well outside my usual range of stitching &#8211;  I could create cut-outs of the leaf shapes and sandwich them between\u00a0  layers of gauze, with minimal stitching to hold them in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gosh. When I sat down to write this, the last couple of ideas hadn&#8217;t  come to me at all! That&#8217;s one of the unanticipated benefits of blogging, because in sitting down to  explain what I am doing, or planning, I concentrate so much more on the  subject that I get even more ideas, and what&#8217;s more, I&#8217;ve got them  written down, so when I actually get to that part of the project, I have  my notes &#8211; often illustrated notes!\u00a0 &#8211; to help me reconstruct my ideas.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to work this while I&#8217;m actually in Australia, using  Australian sourced materials, so I think I need to spend more some time planning the project before our next visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hallmarks of Australian Embroidery, as shown in the magazines, is a willingness to mix techniques and &#8220;play&#8221;. So while I have no idea of how I am going to show the Rosella, I&#8217;ve been thinking in terms of creating a background of tessellated Eucalyptus leaves, one way or another. There are several&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/19\/australian-wildlife-backgrounds\/\">Continue Reading Australian wildlife &#8211; backgrounds<\/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":[20,40,17,61],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-applique","tag-canvaswork","tag-new-techniques","tag-rosella-panel","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","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=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}