{"id":5547,"date":"2012-11-20T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T09:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:04:32","slug":"dressing-cecile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/20\/dressing-cecile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dressing C\u00e9cile"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"C\u00e9cile's<\/a>

C\u00e9cile’s Saddlecloth<\/p><\/div>\n

Once she was fully reassembled, with a neat patch across her tummy to hide the joins of the sides and ends, I was very keen to put back\u00a0C\u00e9cile’s glorious turquoise velvet saddlecloth. I started sewing it on in the centre of each long edge – roughly where her spine would be – and worked outwards, to make sure that the saddlecloth didn’t end up squiffy. I’ve also not stitched too closely, because I want the fabrics to be able to move a little when I put my feet on the finished footstool and the padding “gives” a little.<\/p>\n

\"C\u00e9ciles<\/a>

C\u00e9cile’s Browband<\/p><\/div>\n

I should note in passing that while C\u00e9cile is unquestionably a darling, she’s been the most preposterously obstreperous pachyderm I’ve ever encountered. Getting her legs re-covered was hair-raising, getting the body attached suitably was a challenge and tidying up the undercarriage so that C\u00e9cile stayed in one piece involved the sort of contortions that make me wish I’d been doing yoga all my life!<\/p>\n

Grandmama gave C\u00e9cile a browband of upholstery fringe – probably left over from one of the many lampshades she made – and that was the only real casualty of her years in the loft. Even a run through the washing machine didn’t revive it, so it was abandoned and replaced with a similar piece left over from a lampshade recovered by either my mother or myself. The tradition of keeping and reusing scraps is very strong in our family!<\/p>\n

\"C\u00e9cile<\/a>

C\u00e9cile Finished!<\/p><\/div>\n

So here she is, refurbished and back to her former glory. I was very fond of C\u00e9cile when I was a child, and I’ve enjoyed bringing her back to life.<\/p>\n

Even it she was occasionally obstreperous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once she was fully reassembled, with a neat patch across her tummy to hide the joins of the sides and ends, I was very keen to put back\u00a0C\u00e9cile’s glorious turquoise velvet saddlecloth. I started sewing it on in the centre of each long edge – roughly where her spine would be – and worked outwards,… Continue Reading Dressing C\u00e9cile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[98,25,28],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts","tag-cecile","tag-experiments","tag-grandmamas-embroidery","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6691,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/6691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}