{"id":9737,"date":"2016-07-26T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9737"},"modified":"2016-06-21T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:12:07","slug":"inspired-by-spring-flowers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/26\/inspired-by-spring-flowers-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired By Spring Flowers – 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Four<\/a>

Four Stitched Panels<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided to create a chequerboard effect for the pincushion. The four panels are stab-stitched together with the raw edges visible. I think that makes for an interesting effect, although it can be over-used.<\/p>\n

The first panel has a few French Knots, lots of straight stitches, and some singleton scroll stitches around the base of the stems.<\/p>\n

The second is lots of French knots, and palmate leaves made of lazy daisy stitches.<\/p>\n

The third is primarily lazy daisy stitch, with the flowers made using blanket stitch.<\/p>\n

The four panel is feather stitch with French Knots.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The pincushion<\/p><\/div>\n

The pincushion is only lightly stuffed. I felt that somehow stuffing it to the point of solidity wouldn’t be quite right, although I don’t know why.<\/p>\n

In this case I closed the edges with glove stitch. This is really a sort of variant on overcast stitch, so it isn’t difficult, but – even with shaggy bits of embellished fabric appearing around the edges! – it gives a slightly more “finished” effect.<\/p>\n

One of those details that most people don’t consciously notice, but it still has an effect…<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Set<\/p><\/div>\n

The finished set looks cheerful and springlike, in spite of the increasingly distant relationship between the stitchery and the spring flowers that inspired me.<\/p>\n

I’m rather pleased; even if it took me months to find the inspiration, the final result makes me smile!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to create a chequerboard effect for the pincushion. The four panels are stab-stitched together with the raw edges visible. I think that makes for an interesting effect, although it can be over-used. The first panel has a few French Knots, lots of straight stitches, and some singleton scroll stitches around the base of… Continue Reading Inspired By Spring Flowers – 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-9737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-experiments","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737","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=9737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9737\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}