{"id":8955,"date":"2015-04-14T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2015-03-28T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T19:18:53","slug":"crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/14\/crazy-canvaswork-cushion-part-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Canvaswork Cushion – Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Section<\/a>

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

The last section, Section Sixteen, gave me a lot of trouble. I suppose that is partly because the end was in sight, and I wasn’t quite as focused as I could have been!<\/p>\n

I was originally looking for a crossing stitch, but every single one I tried either looked wrong, or simply failed to cover the canvas. I sent several tweets enumerating my trials, with one or two strands being too fine, and three strands too heavy, and in the end I abandoned the crossing stitches entirely.<\/p>\n

\"Framed<\/a>

Framed Triangle Stitch<\/p><\/div>\n

In fact I devised my own variation on Triangle Stitch, which I’ve called Framed Triangle Stitch. I rather like the way it has turned out. It is a bit of a trial to stitch economically, but since I am attempting to reduce my stash, that is scarcely a problem!<\/p>\n

Although I like the pattern it creates, I’ve been somewhat concerned about the scale of the pattern, which is perhaps a little too similar to the blue pattern of Section Thirteen.<\/p>\n

However, I now have the challenge of unrolling the whole piece, blocking it, and working out how to finish the cushion.<\/p>\n

As they say – watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last section, Section Sixteen, gave me a lot of trouble. I suppose that is partly because the end was in sight, and I wasn’t quite as focused as I could have been! I was originally looking for a crossing stitch, but every single one I tried either looked wrong, or simply failed to cover… Continue Reading Crazy Canvaswork Cushion – Part 10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41,40,128,130,160],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/8955","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=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}