{"id":5083,"date":"2012-05-22T09:04:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:34:11","slug":"beginning-the-glittering-gentlemans-nightcap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/22\/beginning-the-glittering-gentlemans-nightcap\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning the Glittering Gentleman’s Nightcap"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Transferring<\/a>

Transferring The Design<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been looking at the kit of materials for the Glittering Gentleman’s Nightcap Course<\/a> for quite some time, but since I received the finishing kit I’ve finally decided to get going.<\/p>\n

There was quite a bit of preparation to do. There are lines of basting to help with finishing the piece when the stitching is done, and I’ve added fabric at the top and bottom, and bound the sides, to make framing up a bit easier. I invested in a Millenium frame<\/a> for this project, and I wanted to be sure that I would have enough fabric at the top and bottom to work with the attachment system.<\/p>\n

I don’t have anything that resembles a light-table, so I had to improvise. The tracing and the fabric have both been taped to a pane of the only unleaded window in the house, and I spent a careful hour or so using the Pigma pen included in the kit to trace over the pattern onto the fabric. Bear in mind, if you find yourselves applying this method – it’s a most unnatural position to be drawing in, and you will find your arm aching and your hand cramping, if you aren’t careful.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a>

First Bud<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Second<\/a>

Second Bud<\/p><\/div>\n

I also did some stitching. These are my first two attempts at Detached Buttonhole Stitch using the Gilt Sylke Twist.<\/p>\n

Which is just as hair-raising as anything you might have read will have lead you to expect. It’s very lively and springy, and the gold spiral does sometimes break or scrunch up along the silk.<\/p>\n

All that said, perhaps because I was prepared for it, I did not find it as troublesome as I feared, and the second bud is a marked improvement on the first, so I think I can be very pleased!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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