{"id":9117,"date":"2015-07-14T09:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T08:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:36:38","slug":"stitching-typed-on-camelback-in-a-sandstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/14\/stitching-typed-on-camelback-in-a-sandstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching “Typed on Camelback in a Sandstorm”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The whole idea of this patch is to recall an incident that Mary Chubb describes, in which sand adhered to a freshly-typed page, creating “a rather pretty embossed effect”. In the end, I chose the grid reference of the Expedition House, where the team lived during the digging season.<\/p>\n

I used a selection of silk threads from Mulberry Silks<\/a>, from a colour family called “Old Cotswold”, which I’ve also used for the panel showing the Crock of Gold Hoard<\/a>. It included a russet, a mid-grey and a very pale greyish-white as well as several sandy colours.<\/p>\n

I used all of the colours this time, and discovered that the threads are not all the same, some being finer than others.\u00a0 That’s perfect in this case – some of the grains of sand would be finer than others, and I could accentuate or reduce the differences by using more or fewer wraps in my French Knots. I think it looks really very sandy indeed!<\/p>\n

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U.25.11 Typed In Camelback In A Sandstorm<\/p><\/div>\n

It took a remarkably short period of time. And what’s more, considering that I’m not really a fan of French Knots (I never could get the hang of them when I began embroidering), I rather enjoyed it. Although I must admit, it was beginning to get quite tricky, what with all those layers of thread. I swapped over to a sharp needle and even that was a struggle!<\/p>\n

Still, that’s another piece completed…<\/p>\n

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Sandy Stitching\u00a0 – click to open in a browser tab and run the animation<\/p><\/div>\n

And, as a bonus – an animation. This was put together by Simon Walters (@cymplecy<\/a> on Twitter), using some photos I provided. I’m impressed with what he produced, considering that I didn’t take the pictures in a very controlled environment, and it will give you some idea of the view I had as I built up the effect, colour by colour<\/p>\n

Thank you, Simon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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