{"id":562,"date":"2010-03-30T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-03-28T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T12:32:57","slug":"trying-stumpwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/30\/trying-stumpwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Stumpwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_563\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/KiwiInStumpwork.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/KiwiInStumpwork.jpg\" alt=\"Kiwi In Stumpwork\" width=\"254\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiwi In Stumpwork<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve already mentioned, almost every embroidery technique I have done has been learnt from a book, or just developed by guesswork based upon something I have read.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, I had been reading about 17th Century stumpwork, and had just returned from a half-business trip, half-holiday in New Zealand. And I had some rather gorgeous overdyed silk threads and wanted to experiment with them!<\/p>\n<p>The body is worked in layers of straight stitches, using several different colours of the overdyed silks. I worked a slip, slightly smaller than the body, on a separate piece of fabric, then applied that piece over some padding, and used more straight stitches to cover the join &#8211; <em>very<\/em> thoroughly!<\/p>\n<p>The legs and the beak are both worked by stitching very closely over a trailing thread of soft cotton. The background fabric is a sturdy cotton damask upholstery fabric, so the close stitchery did no harm.\u00a0 The ground is worked using still more straight stitches, with <a title=\"Scroll Stitch on SharonB's Pintangle\" href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/stitchdict\/stitch\/scroll.html\">scroll stitch<\/a>, <a title=\"Coral Stitch on SharonB's Pintangle\" href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/stitchdict\/stitch\/coral.html\">coral stitch<\/a> and <a title=\"Fern Stitch on SharonB's Pintangle\" href=\"http:\/\/inaminuteago.com\/stitchdict\/stitch\/fern.html\">fern stitch<\/a> to create the fragmentary undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>This was intended just as a piece of fun, but I was happy enough with the outcome to mount it in a flexihoop frame. I&#8217;ve bought a couple of books on Stumpwork since I stitched this, but I don&#8217;t know that I would have thought of doing the Kiwi this way if I had read the books first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve already mentioned, almost every embroidery technique I have done has been learnt from a book, or just developed by guesswork based upon something I have read. In this case, I had been reading about 17th Century stumpwork, and had just returned from a half-business trip, half-holiday in New Zealand. And I had some&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/30\/trying-stumpwork\/\">Continue Reading Trying Stumpwork<\/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":[24,25,17,18,36,26,35],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-design-elements","tag-experiments","tag-new-techniques","tag-overdyed-threads","tag-raised-work","tag-silk-thread","tag-stumpwork","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}