{"id":5266,"date":"2015-09-01T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2015-08-23T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T14:08:11","slug":"another-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/01\/another-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Time No See"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been hit by a fit of the tidy-ups and spent a couple of days rifling through some shelves to try to make more sense of them, and I’ve found a couple of things I’ve not seen in years…<\/p>\n

\"Cornucopia<\/a>

Cornucopia Of Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n

This little cornucopia of flowers is rather cute. I found it in a nineteen seventies book about needlecrafts, which is rather a surprise because I don’t think it is a very nineteen-seventies sort of design – and some of the others really were! I’ll try to find the book to tell you what it was called. It’s the same book that I found the girl and her doll described in this post about another forgotten project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a fit of masochism (I can’t think of any other reason!) I worked it on watered silk, which is very closely woven and was a severe trial. I had to use sharps rather than my usual embroidery needles! The flowers are satin stitch<\/a> (I was gradually getting over my aversion!), the leaves lazy daisy<\/a>, and the sections of the cornucopia itself are in Roumanian stitch<\/a>, which creates just enough roughness of texture to be interesting.<\/p>\n

I think that now I have found it again I shall mount it on a round or oval card (like the Glittering Snail<\/a>) and add it to the winter decoration corner.<\/p>\n

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\"Finished<\/a>

Finished Woolwork<\/p><\/div>\n

I wrote about this woolwork experiment<\/a> in 2011, and the last time you saw it, the metal template was still in place. I found it in a box of fabrics that might make good backgrounds, but clearly all I had done was to fill in the centre, add a desultory stem, and sit back and stare at it. Unfortunately, I’m none the wiser as to what to do with the completed piece, or what I might do with the technique…<\/p>\n

\"Close<\/a>

Close Up Of Woolwork<\/p><\/div>\n

Doesn’t it look wonderfully woolly, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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