{"id":308,"date":"2010-03-16T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2010-03-11T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:00:44","slug":"the-persian-fantasy-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/16\/the-persian-fantasy-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Persian Fantasy Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_309\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FourPanelsFinished_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/FourPanelsFinished_small.jpg\" alt=\"Finally Finished, Mounted and Up On The Wall\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finally Finished, Mounted and Up On The Wall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As far as I recall, I spent one month each on the first two panels, and then two months on the third, and three months on the final panel. I only embroidered in the evenings when I got back from work, probably not more than a couple of hours each night.<\/p>\n<p>The closely packed <a title=\"Listed on Needle'n'Thread \" href=\"http:\/\/www.needlenthread.com\/2006\/07\/basic-embroidery-stitches-detached.html\">fly stitches<\/a> forming the poplar trees are largely responsible for the length of time the final panel took. I&#8217;m not the most patient person and I was nearly at screaming point with fly stitch by the time I had finished them!<\/p>\n<p>The panels are mounted over padded wooden frames.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find suitable two-way hinges to make a folding screen (and if I&#8217;m honest, we don&#8217;t have anywhere where such a thing would be useful!) so I simply hung them on the dining room wall. I don&#8217;t think anyone who has come for dinner has ever failed to comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as I recall, I spent one month each on the first two panels, and then two months on the third, and three months on the final panel. I only embroidered in the evenings when I got back from work, probably not more than a couple of hours each night. The closely packed fly&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/16\/the-persian-fantasy-finished\/\">Continue Reading The Persian Fantasy 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":[1,13,8],"tags":[7,157],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-large-embroidery-projects","category-persian-fantasy","tag-needlewoman-magazine","tag-persian-fantasy","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}