{"id":4834,"date":"2015-05-05T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2015-04-17T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T11:33:07","slug":"another-unfinished-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/05\/another-unfinished-object\/","title":{"rendered":"More Unfinished Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4735\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TentStitchFlowers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4735\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TentStitchFlowers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tent Stitch Flowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TentStitchFlowers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TentStitchFlowers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tent Stitch Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I keep on finding things that I&#8217;ve not quite finished, don&#8217;t I &#8211; and in some cases I had completely forgotten about them.<\/p>\n<p>Like this one. I know it was a kit &#8211; stranded cotton worked in half-cross stitch on canvas, &#8211; but I don&#8217;t know why I bought it.<\/p>\n<p>And I clearly had something in mind for it, because I have attached it to a cotton furnishing fabric. Equally clearly, it wasn&#8217;t going to be a cushion centre, or I would have centred it on the fabric. It is only about three inches square, so I suspect I had in mind making it into a needlecase.<\/p>\n<p>But before I do anything else with it, I have to find some way of covering those raw edges of canvas with something that looks deliberate!<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8998\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ColouredCrane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8998\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ColouredCrane-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"Coloured Crane\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ColouredCrane-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ColouredCrane.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coloured Crane<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In other news, though &#8211; I&#8217;ve finished the second Crane!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, you may recall that it was the first, but I decided it looked too overheated in the pot it was destined for, and <a title=\"The Crane \u2013 playing with silken thread, Part One\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/14\/the-crane-playing-with-silken-thread-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">set it aside<\/a> for another version.<\/p>\n<p>I found in when I was looking for something else, and finished it. At least, the embroidery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will probably mount it on a circle of card, and put in that famed Winter Decoration corner.<\/p>\n<p>At least I know what I&#8217;m going to do with this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep on finding things that I&#8217;ve not quite finished, don&#8217;t I &#8211; and in some cases I had completely forgotten about them. Like this one. I know it was a kit &#8211; stranded cotton worked in half-cross stitch on canvas, &#8211; but I don&#8217;t know why I bought it. And I clearly had something&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/05\/another-unfinished-object\/\">Continue Reading More Unfinished Objects<\/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":[91,160,26],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlepoint","tag-counted-work","tag-needlepoint","tag-silk-thread","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","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=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}