{"id":4553,"date":"2011-12-02T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:36:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:36:56","slug":"close-ups-on-the-elephant-doorstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/02\/close-ups-on-the-elephant-doorstop\/","title":{"rendered":"Close-ups on the Elephant Doorstop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Close Up - Spiral Trellis Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been asked to provide a few close ups from the Elephant Doorstop<\/a>, so here goes.<\/p>\n

This close-up shows the spiral trellis stitch<\/a> medallion on the Elephant’s ear. I love this stitch – it creates a lovely nubbly texture! It’s about three quarters of an inch across.<\/p>\n

The silk perl\u00e9 I am using was in ready cut lengths, shading from orange to brown, and when I brought a new thread in, I started with the colour I’d just finished, so that the colour sections would be slightly longer and denser.<\/p>\n

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Close Up - Two Sizes of Four Sided Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

When I thought about working four-sided stitch<\/a> on the Elephant’s headcloth, I was originally intending to work some other pattern over the top, so the background grid would modify the fabric and the pattern on the top would be the most visible thing. However, I couldn’t decide what size would be best and worked one section in each size, and now I’ve decided I like it just as it is. It recalls the Trellis Couching on the saddlecloth<\/a>, but at a different orientation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been asked to provide a few close ups from the Elephant Doorstop, so here goes. This close-up shows the spiral trellis stitch medallion on the Elephant’s ear. I love this stitch – it creates a lovely nubbly texture! It’s about three quarters of an inch across. The silk perl\u00e9 I am using was in… Continue Reading Close-ups on the Elephant Doorstop<\/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":[100,130,101,14,26],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elephant-doorstop","tag-interior-decoration","tag-kala-nag","tag-ornamental-stitches","tag-silk-thread","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","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=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}