{"id":4827,"date":"2012-03-16T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2014-10-05T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T10:19:43","slug":"eucalyptus-leaves-in-canvaswork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/16\/eucalyptus-leaves-in-canvaswork\/","title":{"rendered":"Eucalyptus Leaves in Canvaswork"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Close Up of the Sunburst<\/p><\/div>\n

I believe I have mentioned before that our house is rather Arts & Crafts flavoured.\u00a0 I’ve been working on our dining room almost since we moved in. It’s north-facing, and our predecessors had painted it pale blue and papered the ceiling turquoise with gold stars. We felt we were dining inside an iceberg!<\/p>\n

That may explain why when I repainted it, the ceiling turned white and the walls sunshine yellow. Above the picture rail, I stencilled a eucalyptus leaf frieze (in deference to my husband The Australian). When in due course I inherited my Grandmama’s dining room\u00a0 table and chairs, I decided to work needlepoint covers for the seats.<\/p>\n

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Close Up of the Leaf<\/p><\/div>\n

Fortunately there are only four of them, but even so, I had to ask my mother to work on them as well, or they’d never have been finished. She helped with the stencilling as well – also an exciting challenge!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately when they were finished I discovered some marks on some of the background. I was so dispirited that I couldn’t face unpicking them and so I stowed them away for several years.\u00a0 Now, however, I have fished them out, and I am tackling the replacement of some of the rows of stitching, one row at a time.<\/p>\n

I would be nice to think I could get the chairs recovered for Easter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe I have mentioned before that our house is rather Arts & Crafts flavoured.\u00a0 I’ve been working on our dining room almost since we moved in. It’s north-facing, and our predecessors had painted it pale blue and papered the ceiling turquoise with gold stars. We felt we were dining inside an iceberg! That may… Continue Reading Eucalyptus Leaves in Canvaswork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,144,130,160],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlepoint","tag-canvaswork","tag-eucalyptus-chairs","tag-interior-decoration","tag-needlepoint","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","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=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}