{"id":8231,"date":"2014-07-01T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2014-06-30T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:02:57","slug":"the-hittite-amulet-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/01\/the-hittite-amulet-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hittite Amulet Is Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hittite<\/a>

Hittite Amulet – Finished<\/p><\/div>\n

Those who follow me on Twitter<\/a> will have seen a Tweet full of rejoicings last week – I have finished the Hittite Amulet<\/a> at last! He’s been quite a challenge, and required considerable stores of patience, but I’m very pleased with him. He’s looming out of the darkness very impressively!<\/p>\n

I began working on him last July, and got rather less than halfway before I put him away in a boxfile before Christmas when I was getting ready for festive visitors. After Christmas, I decided to concentrate on the Glittering Nightcap<\/a>, because I was beginning to fear that otherwise I would never finish it, and didn’t begin again<\/a> on this fellow until May.<\/p>\n

Since then I have simply persevered. I’ve not written about him, because in truth there is little to say. Or nu\u00e9 is a simple enough technique – in essence, satin stitch over a metal thread – it is just that there is a lot of stitching needed before any appreciable change is seen.<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>

Detail Of The Head<\/p><\/div>\n

Although it is a simple technique to describe, doing it well is less so. As you can see from the close up of the head, I’ve not managed to keep the rows perfectly even in their spacing or coverage. Perhaps, although I used pre-shrunk calico as the basis, I should have used two layers to make it sturdier (I hope not, it was tricky enough already!) or perhaps the waverings are owing to stitching over two rows at a time.<\/p>\n

Now he can doze quietly in my Dreams of Amarna<\/a> box while I continue with new pieces…<\/p>\n

I had a skein and a half left of the dark silk, after all that panic buying<\/a> last year. Getting quantities right is almost impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who follow me on Twitter will have seen a Tweet full of rejoicings last week – I have finished the Hittite Amulet at last! He’s been quite a challenge, and required considerable stores of patience, but I’m very pleased with him. He’s looming out of the darkness very impressively! I began working on him… Continue Reading The Hittite Amulet Is Finished<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[155,158,59,116],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams-of-amarna","tag-dreams-of-amarna","tag-goldwork","tag-or-nue","tag-the-hittite-amulet","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","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=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}