{"id":2812,"date":"2011-04-05T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2011-08-16T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T14:54:46","slug":"tudor-and-stuart-masterclass-pincushion-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/05\/tudor-and-stuart-masterclass-pincushion-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudor And Stuart Masterclass – Pincushion Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tudor<\/a>

Tudor Pincushion Progress<\/p><\/div>\n

So here is the progress on the Tudor Pincushion.<\/p>\n

There are two close shades of red and two close shades of tan in the design, – this will increase the appearance of rich, subtle colour variation in the final piece, which will provide a gorgeous background for the gold and silver threads.\u00a0 It also means that I have to be super-organised with my thread. As soon as I cut a length, it is wound onto a card with the thread number written on it, because even my daylight lamp sometimes isn’t enough to help distinguish the colours.<\/p>\n

I’ve miscounted and had to restitch the corner motifs in a couple of places, but that is probably because, first,\u00a0 it is a very fine count of fabric, and second, tent stitch is an oriented stitch.<\/p>\n

\"Tent<\/a>

Tent Stitch - demonstrating edges with the orientation and against it<\/p><\/div>\n

That is, because it creates a diagonal stitch, diagonal elements of the design look different when stitched, depending upon whether they slant with the stitch or in the opposite direction. This doesn’t cause a problem once the piece is finished – especially given how small the stitches are! – but it does mean that it isn’t so easy to know at a glance whether details are right. When the details are wrong, it becomes clear that they are wrong just as soon as you stop stitching, and then it becomes a matter of how much or how little needs to be unpicked.<\/p>\n

Of course, I suppose I could interpret (probably correctly!) that as a sign that I’ve been stitching for too long and my eyes are tired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here is the progress on the Tudor Pincushion. There are two close shades of red and two close shades of tan in the design, – this will increase the appearance of rich, subtle colour variation in the final piece, which will provide a gorgeous background for the gold and silver threads.\u00a0 It also means… Continue Reading Tudor And Stuart Masterclass – Pincushion Progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,45],"tags":[15,16,46,78],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","tag-online-university","tag-thistle-threads","tag-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass","tag-tudor-pincushion","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","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=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}