{"id":5335,"date":"2012-05-08T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5335"},"modified":"2012-04-21T21:12:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:12:42","slug":"first-voluntary-project-second-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/08\/first-voluntary-project-second-installment\/","title":{"rendered":"First Voluntary Project – Second Installment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Blanket<\/a>

Blanket Stitch Leaf<\/p><\/div>\n

The leaves that went with the Rose were worked in Blanket Stitch<\/a>, set back to back down the central vein of the leaf, and outlined in Stem Stitch<\/a>. In fact, if you look closely at the photo it seems that I worked the outline first and then the blanket stitch, stitching right over the outline. The leaf is really rather too large and the stitches ended up a little floppy. I think that now I would work the blanket stitch more closely, but keep it shorter, leaving unstitched fabric between it and the outline.<\/p>\n

\"Sword<\/a>

Sword Stitch Chrysanthemum<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m calling this a chrysanthemum, but heaven knows what it was intended to be! The outline is in Whipped Stem Stitch<\/a>, using two different, but very close shades of pink. The petals contain scatters of Sword Stitches<\/a>. I think I would now make the sword stitches much smaller, if I were going to use them, and maybe vary the colours as well. The long skinny leaves that run behind the flower are worked in Closed Herringbone Stitch<\/a> – strange to see that one popping up when I’ve used it so much in reverse on the Map of Amarna<\/a>! The calyx is worked using several rows of stem stitch – I’d work these much more closely now, and maybe even use two different colours.<\/p>\n

\"Vankdyke<\/a>

Vankdyke Stitch Leaf<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve used Vandyke Stitch<\/a> for leaves on other occasions as well. It creates a slightly unnatural leaf, because the central vein is raised rather than indented, but it creates a variety of texture that can be very useful.<\/p>\n

It can be a slightly tricky stitch to get right, since if the tension is wrong (and it goes wrong very easily!) the central braided spine becomes decidedly wriggly. It’s easier in a round yarn rather than a stranded one, so as I look at these two leaves,\u00a0 I’m really quite impressed with Teenage Me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leaves that went with the Rose were worked in Blanket Stitch, set back to back down the central vein of the leaf, and outlined in Stem Stitch. In fact, if you look closely at the photo it seems that I worked the outline first and then the blanket stitch, stitching right over the outline.… Continue Reading First Voluntary Project – Second Installment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,95,21],"class_list":["post-5335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-early-work","tag-first-voluntary-project","tag-sword-stitch","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335","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=5335"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5335\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}