{"id":7153,"date":"2013-05-14T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2013-05-13T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:34:55","slug":"working-the-lotus-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/14\/working-the-lotus-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Working On The Lotus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Blended<\/a>

Blended Thread 1<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week I posted about my progress on the Lotus Tile Fragment<\/a>, and commented that I was rather concerned about producing a suitable effect. Remember, the original fragment was described by Mary Chubb as “faintly lilac-tipped”, and my first effort looked distinctly clunky. That wasn’t going to be suitable, because the Amarna-period art of ancient Egypt has a particularly graceful style.<\/p>\n

\"Solid<\/a>

Solid Tip<\/p><\/div>\n

There were a lot of useful suggestions in the comments, and more than one encouraging email conversation as well (thank you all very much!), and I’ve enjoyed experimenting in the week since then.<\/p>\n

I’ve now got two lotus flowers using blended thread, and one using solid colour tips, and I can’t quite decide between them.<\/p>\n

\"Blended<\/a>

Blended Thread 2<\/p><\/div>\n

If it comes to that, I’m not sure whether even I, who stitched them, can tell the difference between the two blended tip flowers! In one case, I simply split my original silk thread in two, and laid the two halves side by side, whereas in the other, I split each half in half again, and reassembled them alternately.<\/p>\n

I suppose that if I can’t really tell the difference, that suggests that splitting and reassembling once will be enough. I just need to decide whether to go for blended silk or separate colours.<\/p>\n

Decisions, decisions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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