{"id":3542,"date":"2011-06-17T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:48:38","slug":"starting-the-christus-natus-est-or-nue-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/17\/starting-the-christus-natus-est-or-nue-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Christus Natus Est Or Nu\u00e9 Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christus Natus Est - Materials<\/p><\/div>\n

I know I should try to limit the number of projects I work on at once, but my fingers have been itching to start the Christus Natus Est Panel<\/a>, and I finally decided to have a go.<\/p>\n

I bought the silk thread (Pearsall’s Filoselle) and the gold passing thread, at the Knitting and Stitching Show<\/a> in Harrogate last year.\u00a0 The Filoselle is a beautiful stranded thread, and I’m using a single strand to couch down the colours of the thread, and a different, very fine thread to couch down the bare gold sections.<\/p>\n

I was somewhat afraid that choosing to work my or nu\u00e9 <\/em>panel in the circular and curving fashion would create considerable headaches, especially in starting the spiral at the centre of the circle, but actually it was fairly straightforward. I’ve put the gold thread into a little gauze bag, which keeps it from unwinding- mostly- and means I don’t have to worry about it snagging or catching as I work<\/p>\n

\"Close-up<\/a>

Close-up of Starting The Or Nu\u00e9 panel<\/p><\/div>\n

As my spiral becomes larger, and the number of colours I am using in each circuit increases, the work will become slower, and more confusing, but so far, I am enjoying it very much. It would be much easier if I had a proper slate frame and trestles to stand it on, as I can see that the pins holding the calico to the frame will need to be moved occasionally as the fabric stretches. However, the silk thread covers the gold reasonably easily, and since I was aware from reading about the technique that the silk would distort the rows slightly, I’ve not been unduly disturbed by the way the spiral isn’t quite circular anymore. It won’t be that obvious when the piece is finished, after all!<\/p>\n

In fact I’ve been enjoying myself so much that I\u00a0 just have to be a little careful not to get so wound up in it that I stitch for too long and end up with fuzzy eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I should try to limit the number of projects I work on at once, but my fingers have been itching to start the Christus Natus Est Panel, and I finally decided to have a go. I bought the silk thread (Pearsall’s Filoselle) and the gold passing thread, at the Knitting and Stitching Show… Continue Reading Starting the Christus Natus Est Or Nu\u00e9 Panel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[56,158,17,59,26],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldwork","tag-christus-natus-est","tag-goldwork","tag-new-techniques","tag-or-nue","tag-silk-thread","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","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=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}