{"id":6299,"date":"2012-10-16T09:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6299"},"modified":"2013-02-12T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:06:33","slug":"another-needlework-nibble-the-butterfly-pinpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/16\/another-needlework-nibble-the-butterfly-pinpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Needlework Nibble – the Butterfly Pinpad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Butterfly Nibble, instructions and materials<\/p><\/div>\n

There is yet another Needlework Nibble available from Thistle Threads<\/a>! This involves a particularly fine gold thread, and some stranded silk.<\/p>\n

This one is a tiny butterfly, outlined in gold, highlighted in pale green silk, and then finished as a pinpad. I have discovered in the past two years that I really enjoy working these little pieces, and they are a great way to find out about different threads, stitches or techniques without being entirely overwhelmed by the scale of the project.<\/p>\n

\"Beginning<\/a>

Beginning The Butterfly Pinpad<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m suffering from tennis elbow at the moment (owing to the housework, not the embroidery!), so I am particularly interested in smaller projects that allow me to make visible progress in short spans of time. I thought that this might be one of them, but actually the stitches are so hair-raisingly small that I’m no longer sure that is the case.<\/p>\n

The stitches are only a couple of millimetres long, and with my arm in its present state, what you see here is the result of two half-hour sessions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is yet another Needlework Nibble available from Thistle Threads! This involves a particularly fine gold thread, and some stranded silk. This one is a tiny butterfly, outlined in gold, highlighted in pale green silk, and then finished as a pinpad. I have discovered in the past two years that I really enjoy working these… Continue Reading Another Needlework Nibble – the Butterfly Pinpad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[106,158,72,16],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldwork","tag-butterfly-pinpad","tag-goldwork","tag-needlework-nibbles","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","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=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}