{"id":3750,"date":"2011-08-26T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T08:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T15:49:33","slug":"more-goldwork-on-the-spot-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/26\/more-goldwork-on-the-spot-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"More Goldwork On The Spot Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Guilloche<\/a>

Guilloche Stitch, Reverse Chain Stitch and Ceylon Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

I have been working more on the Spot Sampler of late, slowly catching up with the metal thread stitchery. If you are confused by my posts on this, you aren’t alone – I spend a few minutes every time I sit down trying to work out where I’d got up to!<\/p>\n

Some of the stitches are familiar\u00a0 – Ceylon Stitch<\/strong>, for example, I have used before. In this case I have used the lighter and floppier of the metal threads supplied. It creates a more lacy effect than Tricia intended, but I thought the thread might “strip” less dramatically (I was right, too!). When I finish the main body of the sampler I may\u00a0 go back and work new versions of some of the stitches around the edge, so in this case, for instance, I would choose to use the heavier, thicker thread. This will make the sampler even more useful by giving me some sense of the variation of appearance available through different threads..<\/p>\n

As you can see, I still haven’t entirely got to grips with Guilloche Stitch<\/strong>, although using the stiffer thread did make the whole thing slightly easier. I was becoming slightly anxious about finishing the panel without starting a new length for the last course of interlacing!<\/p>\n

\"Reverse<\/a>

Reverse Chain With Buttonhole Edging<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve already used the Reverse Chain Stitch with Buttonhole Edging<\/strong> since I learnt it on this course, when I was working the Title of the Map<\/a> for the Amarna Panels. Now I look at the photograph I see that my tension wasn’t entirely consistent across the whole width of this spot, and the thread stripped and clogged in a couple of places. But then, samplers are for practising on… I may choose to re-work this later, using the finer thread, since I think that if worked fine and delicately this stitch could find a host of new uses.<\/p>\n

\"Plaited<\/a>

Plaited Braid Stitch on the Spot Sampler<\/p><\/div>\n

I felt when I finished my practising for Month Fourteen<\/a> that the real test of my grasp of Plaited Braid Stitch<\/strong> would come when I came back to the stitch after a week or so. As you can see, I’ve worked it as a counted stitch here, in the larger size and using the heavier thread, and it seems as though I got it right. I kept the instructions to hand all the time, of course, but I’m very pleased with this. It is a real testimony to the clarity of the instructions, and the way they gave me some grip on the structure of the stitch, that I didn’t feel at all anxious when I was working this.<\/p>\n

Can you hear me purring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been working more on the Spot Sampler of late, slowly catching up with the metal thread stitchery. If you are confused by my posts on this, you aren’t alone – I spend a few minutes every time I sit down trying to work out where I’d got up to! Some of the stitches… Continue Reading More Goldwork On The Spot Sampler<\/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":[158,15,16,46],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","tag-goldwork","tag-online-university","tag-thistle-threads","tag-tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}