{"id":3452,"date":"2012-03-02T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2012-02-06T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:07:31","slug":"another-ebay-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/02\/another-ebay-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Another eBay Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dressing<\/a>

Dressing Table Set in Cutwork<\/p><\/div>\n

When I first discovered eBay, I bought a lot of transfers and some threads, and this dressing table set in cutwork arrived in one of the parcels, already stamped and half-heartedly started.<\/p>\n

You’ve probably already gathered that I’m not very enthusiastic about working a one-stitch project, so I eyed it askance for a little while, but then it occurred to me that my grandmother’s dressing table would be the better for a little embellishment, and that this might make a good travelling project.<\/p>\n

(Translation: Travelling Project –\u00a0 a small, simple project that can be easily taken on visits. Sometimes I use a large project as a travelling project, if it is simple enough – for example, the initial stages of the Map of Amarna<\/a>, when I had only one thread colour to use and no decisions to make)<\/p>\n

\"Flower<\/a>

Flower On Dressing Table Set<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

More Edges on the Cutwork<\/p><\/div>\n

I had to buy a special pair of supersharp, super narrow scissors to deal with the cutwork. Truly scary – have I made the edge strong enough or haven’t I?\u00a0 The close-ups show that there were a few threads that weren’t quite properly trimmed, but they don’t show as much in real life.<\/p>\n

And, as it turned out, I rather enjoyed keeping the buttonhole stitch close and neat, and didn’t find the project half as tedious as I feared!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first discovered eBay, I bought a lot of transfers and some threads, and this dressing table set in cutwork arrived in one of the parcels, already stamped and half-heartedly started. You’ve probably already gathered that I’m not very enthusiastic about working a one-stitch project, so I eyed it askance for a little while,… Continue Reading Another eBay Project<\/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":[69,154],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cutwork","tag-uncategorized","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","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=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}