{"id":7966,"date":"2014-02-18T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2014-02-11T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:09:29","slug":"slow-progress-on-the-glittering-nightcap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/18\/slow-progress-on-the-glittering-nightcap\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Progress on the Glittering Nightcap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as it does every winter, my work on my current Thistle Threads<\/a> project has slowed to a crawl. The bay window where I have a decent light to work by is too cold to be inviting, and the grey, overcast, and rainy days result in very poor light even at the best of times. Given the effects of this past winter on other parts of the UK, the lack of light to embroider by is a very minor matter – but it does explain why canvaswork became so very appealing to me!<\/p>\n

\"Gilt<\/a>

Gilt Sylke Twist Finished<\/p><\/div>\n

However – trumpets, please! – I have now finished all of the Gilt Sylke Twist on the brim of the Glittering Nightcap<\/a>! The photograph above does enlarge if you click on it, but I’ve noticed that it is slightly blurred at the edges. That isn’t surprising, as it is quite a long piece, and it was quite hard to get all of it in the frame at once.<\/p>\n

\"Half<\/a>

Half Of Design<\/p><\/div>\n

So – to make it easier to look at – here is one half of the design as I have stitched it up. You will remember that I decided to work the brim slightly differently to the main section of the cap, so that when it was finished it would be even more of a sampler of techniques than it is already.<\/p>\n

All the detached buttonhole with return was worked in the style I found in Jacquie Carey<\/a>‘s book Elizabethan Stitches, in which the border of the stitch is integral to it. This in fact makes it rather easier to stitch – once you have a grip on how it works! – because you aren’t trying to stitch into a chain stitch border, so the thread isn’t quite so mauled about\u00a0 and the gilt wire doesn’t break quite as often.<\/p>\n

I also substituted satin stitch for the sepals to create a change of reflectance. I’m now wondering whether the little scarlet buds should be taken out and worked in double padded satin stitch, too, maybe even in the silk thread used in the trellis stitch pomegranate centres, rather than the gilt sylke twist.<\/p>\n

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