{"id":8122,"date":"2014-06-10T09:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2014-05-06T12:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T11:11:24","slug":"the-circle-skirt-finished-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/10\/the-circle-skirt-finished-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle Skirt Finished &#8211; Maybe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8099\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FinishedCirclesSkirtMaybe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8099\" class=\" wp-image-8099 \" title=\"The Finished Circle Skirt - Perhaps!\" alt=\"The Finished Circle Skirt - Perhaps!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FinishedCirclesSkirtMaybe.jpg\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FinishedCirclesSkirtMaybe.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FinishedCirclesSkirtMaybe-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Finished Circle Skirt &#8211; Perhaps!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This seems a good enough point at which to say the Circle Skirt is finished, although I may tweak and titivate further next winter.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the picture to zoom in..<\/p>\n<p>Some of the circles have been needlefelted, to greater and lesser extents, to help them to stay in place. Now I have my embellisher, I think that the next time I try this sort of thing, I will needlefelt very thoroughly, to try to help blend in the edges a little more. Once I have tried both ways I will feel that I am beginning to gain an understanding of how the embellisher affects the handle of the the fabric. I already know that it does, of course, but now I need to learn how to predict the effect and allow for it.<\/p>\n<p>The skirt is now much more useful and wearable than it was. Unembellished, it was a strange light greyish colour that seemed just slightly &#8220;off&#8221; with everything I owned. Now, however, the burgundies, reds and greens tie in nicely with an assortment of tops, and the way the embellishment shrinks around the sides to the back helps to emphasize the kick-flare at the back.<\/p>\n<p>In the right company, it&#8217;s a fabulous conversation starter, and it&#8217;s a wearable sampler as well. I&#8217;m rather looking forward to wearing it at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate in November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems a good enough point at which to say the Circle Skirt is finished, although I may tweak and titivate further next winter. Click on the picture to zoom in.. Some of the circles have been needlefelted, to greater and lesser extents, to help them to stay in place. Now I have my embellisher,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/10\/the-circle-skirt-finished-maybe\/\">Continue Reading The Circle Skirt Finished &#8211; Maybe!<\/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],"tags":[124,20,123,132,133],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apparel","tag-applique","tag-circle-skirt","tag-embellisher","tag-needlefelting","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","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=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}