{"id":9702,"date":"2016-07-12T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T08:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2016-06-10T19:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:13:40","slug":"ladys-magazine-stitch-off-a-traycloth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/12\/ladys-magazine-stitch-off-a-traycloth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady’s Magazine Stitch Off – A Traycloth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Don't<\/a>

Don’t Do This<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the few things that made being poorly tolerable when I was a small child was the way my food arrived – on the good china, on a tray, covered with a traycloth. A hand embroidered traycloth, no less!<\/p>\n

It wasn’t enough to encourage me to malinger, I hasten to add. But anything to give the invalid a lift…<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the family stock of traycloths is somewhat reduced since those days, many of those traycloths having disintegrated after long and faithful service, so I though that I would use some of the flower sprays found among the Lady’s Magazine Stitch Off <\/a>patterns to embroider some more.<\/p>\n

I decided to make my own transfers, and promptly discovered a forgotten hazard that I should have added to that post on Transferring Designs<\/a>. Whatever you do, if you are using a steam iron, Switch Off The Steam! Not only is the transfer not usable again, it didn’t work the first time!<\/p>\n

\"Flower<\/a>

Flower Spray<\/p><\/div>\n

Once I’d got the steam switched off, things improved, and I got two sprays transferred onto diagonally opposite corners of a traycloth I found lying around, unadorned. It’s linen, too, so I’m amazed it has taken me this long to embellish it!<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a>

Starting The Spray<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m no botanist, so I can’t hazard a guess at the flower this is intended to be. It may not be intended as anything up a pretty combination of shapes, of course, in which case any eccentricities of stitching are unlikely to matter very much..<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to go for some bright, cheerful yellows – to cheer up any invalids who might see it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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