{"id":8054,"date":"2014-04-29T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2014-04-08T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:33:11","slug":"the-crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/29\/the-crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy Canvaswork Cushion – Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tree<\/a>

Tree Pattern<\/p><\/div>\n

This tree pattern is one I’ve been looking for an excuse to do for quite some time.\u00a0 The book in which I found it suggests using it for small pieces like spectacle cases, but I’m not sure I agree. I think it might make for a rather overpowering pattern if not contained by something else. That same book said it was easy, and I’m not sure I agree with them about that either – I had to unpick all the trees the first time I did them, because I’d repeatedly got one element of the stitch placement wrong, in a rather unfudgeable fashion!<\/p>\n

\"Section<\/a>

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

Section Seven covers – just – the whole width of the cushion, and makes a good interruption to the rhythm I’d built up.<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that it might be a good candidate for a single colour design, one of these days, especially a light colour that will allow the ends of the stitches to cast shadows and build up the pattern.<\/p>\n

As though I don’t have enough plans swirling in my head!<\/p>\n

\"Section<\/a>

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

It turned out that the next section was rather tricky to pick a colour for, until my mother suggested blues, to help reflect the pattern around Section Seven.<\/p>\n

I decided to create a shaded effect on Section Eight. I used three strands of wool, which meant that I could create a fairly subtle graduation starting from three dark strands, and progressing through 2 dark and 1 medium, 1 dark and 2 medium, 3 medium, and then 2 medium and one light, 1 medium and 2 light, then finally 3 light.<\/p>\n

\"Dutch<\/a>

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

The stitch is Dutch Stitch, found in Mary Rhodes’ Dictionary of Canvaswork Stitches. It is a condensed, closely worked crossing stitch. In fact it is so condensed as to be quite an effort when worked in three strands on this canvas!<\/p>\n

Still, I expect it will prove a hardwearing stitch, and the texture is a good contrast with the smoother textures of the straight stitch patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This tree pattern is one I’ve been looking for an excuse to do for quite some time.\u00a0 The book in which I found it suggests using it for small pieces like spectacle cases, but I’m not sure I agree. I think it might make for a rather overpowering pattern if not contained by something else.… Continue Reading The Crazy Canvaswork Cushion – Part 5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,39],"tags":[41,40,128,130,160],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-needlepoint","tag-bargello","tag-canvaswork","tag-crazy-canvaswork-cushion","tag-interior-decoration","tag-needlepoint","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","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=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}