{"id":7943,"date":"2014-03-11T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:32:11","slug":"the-crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/11\/the-crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy Canvaswork Cushion – Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jacquard<\/a>

Jacquard Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

The third section is in Jacquard Stitch. I’ve always liked this stitch. It creates an effect rather reminiscent of a twill weave, which is one of my favourite fabric structures – you may recall that the Persian Fantasy<\/a> screen was embroidered on a cotton twill, and that I used a cotton twill fabric for the superstructure and bridge of the Camberwell<\/a>. It’s a little tricky to start, and doing the compensation along all the wiggly edges had me counting and recounting to try to make sure I didn’t create any steps that were longer than others. It is very much easier to do when the edges are straight!<\/p>\n

\"Third<\/a>

Third Section<\/p><\/div>\n

This view shows that whole shape of the third section.<\/p>\n

As you can see, I am trying to change around between diagonal stitches and straight stitches, stripes and squares. Although Jacquard Stitch and Florentine stitch are both striped, one uses diagonal stitches and the other straight stitches. And strangely, again, the section used approximately the same amount of wool as the previous sections. By now I was beginning to be confident enough to pull out that number of strands from the hank and see what happened..<\/p>\n

\"Section<\/a>

Section Four<\/p><\/div>\n

For my next section, I looked for a square stitch which involved crossing threads. Since I chose to alternate the colours, the amount of each colour would be approximately the same. This is a rather acidic green, and swore violently at some of the other colours in my stash – although it does look better in real life than it does here!<\/p>\n

\"Rice<\/a>

Rice Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

I chose Rice Stitch. This is probably the simplest way of using two colours for Rice Stitch, although later I may use the variant which has the corner crosses in a different colour to the underlying diagonal cross stitch.<\/p>\n

Next time I may also choose to use three strands in the needle. Two are usually sufficient with a crossed stitch, but although this looks hardwearing , in real life it looks a little “thin”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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