{"id":527,"date":"2010-03-19T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-03-17T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:59:16","slug":"floral-glove-needlecase-kit-silk-work-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/19\/floral-glove-needlecase-kit-silk-work-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Floral Glove Needlecase Kit &#8211; Silk Work Finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_528\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SilkWorkDone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"size-full wp-image-528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/SilkWorkDone.jpg\" alt=\"Floral Glove Needlecase Kit - Silk Work Done\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Floral Glove Needlecase Kit - Silk Work Done<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finished the silk work on the Needlecase Kit!<\/p>\n<p>The new stand has been working well &#8211; it is very adjustable, so I can make it suit wherever I am sitting, and the magnifying glass has been very helpful too. The only slight hitch with the magnifier is that stitching away at magnification becomes normal and then when finishing off threads at normal vision, I get slightly spooked to realise how small the stitching is!<\/p>\n<p>As I have said, I am not really a fan of <a title=\"Satin Stitch at the Embroiderer's Guild\" href=\"http:\/\/www.embroiderersguild.com\/stitch\/stitches\/satin.html\">satin stitch<\/a> and <a title=\"Long and Short Stitch at the Embroiderer's Guild\" href=\"http:\/\/www.embroiderersguild.com\/stitch\/stitches\/longandshort.html\">long and short stitch<\/a>, perhaps because I am self-taught. Both of these stitches look simple, but are difficult to execute well, and so are very dispiriting for someone learning from books, with no-one to give hints and tips for excellence. How I long to have had a Miss Hunter to help me!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the instructions that Tricia Wilson prepared for the course are very nearly as good as having her beside you. They are copiously illustrated with very high resolution photos, so that it becomes a matter of seeking to make the view through the magnifier match the printout.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m even coming to think I may enjoy satin and long and short stitch, in small doses!<\/p>\n<p>The kit included whole spools of the silk thread, so I have plenty left to play with. I&#8217;m not expecting to go so quickly with the goldwork, but the instructions come nicely spaced out so there will be time to take stock and work on other projects as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished the silk work on the Needlecase Kit! The new stand has been working well &#8211; it is very adjustable, so I can make it suit wherever I am sitting, and the magnifying glass has been very helpful too. The only slight hitch with the magnifier is that stitching away at magnification becomes normal&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/19\/floral-glove-needlecase-kit-silk-work-finished\/\">Continue Reading Floral Glove Needlecase Kit &#8211; Silk Work Finished!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[5,29,17,15,26,16],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floral-glove-needlecase","category-uncategorized","tag-floral-glove-course","tag-miss-hunter","tag-new-techniques","tag-online-university","tag-silk-thread","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}