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Parterre – final stages
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/09/03/parterre-final-stages/
Published: September 3, 2024 08:04
While I was stitching away at the limestone pavement, it occurred to me that I maybe needed to think of some way to “finish off” the edges. I’d left a corner space in the green border, being unwilling to go down to a straight stitch over a single thread,…
Finishing the Golden Accessories
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/27/finishing-the-golden-accessories/
Published: August 27, 2024 08:02
Since I made the mistake of losing the fabric and then picking a fabric of the wrong count, and what’s more, when I looked at the finished pieces they were none of them even the same proportion, I decided to abandon all thought of turning them into…
Parterre Progress
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/20/parterre-progress/
Published: August 20, 2024 08:04
Interior design involves balancing places for the eye to rest with things for it to look at, but having that happen at different scales and different distances from the eye means that you can have just as much visual excitement as you want. Once I put my…
Golden Accessories – Pansy
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/13/golden-accessories-pansy/
Published: August 13, 2024 08:08
The Pansy continued apace, with only one alarming period when I thought the small amount on the card was all I had left to finish the dark green. Then I found an entire full reel, gleaming at me from the bottom of the project box. I was greatly relieved,…
Parterre – where had I got to again?
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/08/06/parterre-where-had-i-got-to-again/
Published: August 6, 2024 08:02
There was a lot of path to stitch, but that gave me plenty of thinking and experimenting time. I started playing with the Milanese Pinwheels when I wanted a break from the endless limestone pavement, and began by using them in the interlocking form shown…
Starting the Pansy (Golden Accessories)
Published: July 30, 2024 08:03
To begin with, the Pansy design of the Golden Accessories went much better than I feared. In some lights the colours of the pansy are much closter than in others, making progress quite slow until I worked out which combination of lighting to use. But the…
Octagonal Borders Taking Some Time To Resolve!
Published: July 23, 2024 08:06
I felt that the Octagonal borders needed to be less subdivided than the long borders, which in turn meant finding a large stitch pattern. After some to-ing and fro-ing, I decided that I like this one – Milanese Pinwheel (again from Jo Ippolito…
Overlay experiments
https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk/wordpress/2024/07/16/overlay-experiments/
Published: July 16, 2024 08:04
You may recall that I spent some extra time trialling other methods for creating the overlays. My original screenprint idea had long since been abandoned, partly because the past five years when I’ve been painting as well has given me much more confidence…
More on the Golden Accessories (honeysuckle)
Published: July 9, 2024 08:04
So, where had we got to…? Ah, yes. Spiral trellis stitch in silk for the centre of the honeysuckle flower, and then the outermost narrow band of the strapwork in gold reverse chain stitch. Straightforward enough, you’d say. Well, yes, but I’m out of…
Another day of photography (second helping)
Published: July 2, 2024 08:03
The complication of the overlays against the panels is introduced by the facts that the overlays are slightly bigger than the panels, they are transparent, and the overlays themselves are heavy. In any final display, the overlays will be screwed to the…