{"id":9113,"date":"2015-07-21T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T08:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:36:49","slug":"finishing-the-thistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/21\/finishing-the-thistle\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing The Thistle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thistle Finished<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, I decided in the end to unpick the silk pearl purl. I was extremely disappointed about that, because the whole idea of this project was to provide an underlayer for the pearl purl.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I do think it turned out rather well. The gold and viscose gimp makes a beautifully tangled, almost “fluffy” head – there’s something like 10 metres in that head, an entire skein of thread, uncut, and twisted back on itself in little one-inch fronds.<\/p>\n

Even if I did feel as though I was using my pins more like a windlass!<\/p>\n

The three shades of green wool break up the otherwise rather monolithic leaves and I’m very pleased with my fishbone stitch variation. I took care to make sure the two strands I was using lay side-by-side rather than twisting up, but in truth that wasn’t much of a problem.<\/p>\n

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Thistle Signed<\/p><\/div>\n

The stem I worked in raised stem stitch band, incorporating rather more of the dark thread, and trying\u00a0 to make sure that I didn’t catch any odd bits of the felt – harder than it looks!<\/p>\n

Finally, having decided that my planned embellishments (the silk pearl purl) were blemishes rather than embellishments, I took them out (cautiously) and signed with my usual Morse Code initials…<\/p>\n

I didn’t have any plan for this piece, but I’m so pleased (in spite of my disappointment!) that I’m quite seriously considering framing it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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