{"id":9627,"date":"2016-02-09T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2016-02-23T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:40:17","slug":"progress-on-eve-in-the-garden-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/09\/progress-on-eve-in-the-garden-of-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress on Eve In The Garden Of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9572\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9572\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9572\" class=\"wp-image-9572 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress-158x300.jpg\" alt=\"Progress on the spine\" width=\"158\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress-768x1454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress-541x1024.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/EdenProgress.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Progress on the spine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After all those good intentions, I&#8217;ve rather fallen behind with &#8220;Eve In The Garden Of Eden&#8221;. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s difficult &#8211; rather fine, requiring the use of the magnifier, but not especially difficult. Unfortunately I&#8217;ve only got as far as three of the five panels on the spine of the bookcover. There are two more little panels on the spine, and then two identical ornamental frames, back and front, showing Adam, Eve, the Tree Of Knowledge, and the Snake. And that&#8217;s before I start on the complicated bits!<\/p>\n<p>Reasons\/excuses for the delay? Well, I moved over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/01\/a-christmas-angel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canvaswork Angel<\/a> over Christmas (it seemed more appropriate somehow!), and then I was blindsided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/19\/the-great-ladys-magazine-stitch-off\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Great Lady\u2019s Magazine Stitch Off<\/a>. Not that I am complaining, you understand &#8211; it&#8217;s been fascinating to begin finding out about the early days of periodicals and to see the designs provided for subscribers, especially as even more are beginning to come to light!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9626\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AnotherParcel.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9626\" class=\"wp-image-9626 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AnotherParcel-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Another Parcel\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AnotherParcel-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AnotherParcel-768x597.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AnotherParcel.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Parcel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now I have been reminded that I really need to get on with it, because the finishing kit has arrived, including some rather lovely silk brocade, and some fancy threads I&#8217;ve not come across before.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I need to finish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/26\/great-ladys-magazine-stitch-off-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">that pashmina<\/a> first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all those good intentions, I&#8217;ve rather fallen behind with &#8220;Eve In The Garden Of Eden&#8221;. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s difficult &#8211; rather fine, requiring the use of the magnifier, but not especially difficult. Unfortunately I&#8217;ve only got as far as three of the five panels on the spine of the bookcover. There are two&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/09\/progress-on-eve-in-the-garden-of-eden\/\">Continue Reading Progress on Eve In The Garden Of Eden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[166,15,26,16],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldwork","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-online-university","tag-silk-thread","tag-thistle-threads","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}