{"id":3945,"date":"2011-10-14T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2011-10-10T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:30:47","slug":"tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass-more-gold-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/14\/tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass-more-gold-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass &#8211; more gold added"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3946\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MoreGoldStitches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3946\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MoreGoldStitches-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"More Gold Stitches\" width=\"278\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MoreGoldStitches-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MoreGoldStitches.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detached Buttonhole with Return, and ZigZag on Ladder Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been persevering with adding the goldwork stitches to the Spot Sampler. Tricia set up a Yahoo Group for the course so that we could help each other out, and I posted some of my headaches to that.<\/p>\n<p>I received a good many helpful suggestions, and on top of that, Tricia posted a very long response on the Question and Answer blog, which included the reassuring detail that when she&#8217;s reverse-engineering the stitches, she uses the point at which the thread sheds to help her determine whether she is really doing the stitch that she&#8217;s trying to. Some shredding is to be expected, then&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3948\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldQueenStitchesAdded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3948\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3948 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldQueenStitchesAdded-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Queen Stitches Added\" width=\"178\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldQueenStitchesAdded-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldQueenStitchesAdded.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Queen Stitches Added<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m doing better now, as I am finding there is rather less shredding (although there is still some). I suspect my tension is sometimes too tight, and Tricia has suggest that my <strong>Ladder Stitch<\/strong> in particular could do with being loosened up a little. Having the tension too tight will abrade the thread further as I make each stitch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3947\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldDetachedButtonhole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3947\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldDetachedButtonhole-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Detached Buttonhole with Return\" width=\"184\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldDetachedButtonhole-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/GoldDetachedButtonhole.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gold Detached Buttonhole with Return<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>detached buttonhole with return<\/strong> that forms the first embellishment on the large pattern at the bottom of the sampler was rather a surprise. It&#8217;s more raised than the photo of Tricia&#8217;s finished piece suggests, and I got into a tangle working it, although that is because the position of the stitches on the frame were not as comfortable to work from some angles as others. I find myself wondering how RSN needlewomen manage with those large slate frames!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been persevering with adding the goldwork stitches to the Spot Sampler. Tricia set up a Yahoo Group for the course so that we could help each other out, and I posted some of my headaches to that. I received a good many helpful suggestions, and on top of that, Tricia posted a very long&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/14\/tudor-and-stuart-goldwork-masterclass-more-gold-added\/\">Continue Reading Tudor and Stuart Goldwork Masterclass &#8211; more gold added<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[15,16,46],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tudor-and-stuart-gold-masterclass","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\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}