{"id":1833,"date":"2010-08-23T06:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2010-08-23T06:36:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:36:55","slug":"sal-lily-bud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/08\/23\/sal-lily-bud\/","title":{"rendered":"SAL: lily bud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well. I’m still a bit bereft of ideas for how to work the lily bud. Looking at the whole design, I think it needs to be a thin outline (perhaps), with a light filling. This is because the other parts of the design that are nearby have either wide outlines or are completely filled. The next closest bits that have a narrow outline are the pair of leaves right at the bottom. <\/p>\n

But then maybe not.<\/p>\n

Um…<\/p>\n

Ok, so I’m going to try using a stem stitch outline, and see where that takes me. I have used stem stitch already, as the stamen-y bits (I still can’t remember their proper names!), but there is certainly no problem with using a stitch more than once, especially if you use it in different ways. I think I may have said before that some of the best Mountmellick embroidery uses only a limited palette of stitches. It is not an exercise in using as many different stitches as possible… (unlike the embroideries for the covers of my left<\/a> and right-handed stitch dictionaries<\/a>, or my embroidery for Stitch+Stitch=Magic<\/a>!)
\n\"stem<\/a>I’ve started with the central petal of the bud, outlining it in stem stitch.
\n\"double<\/a>Now I’ve worked another line of stem stitch just inside the first.
\n\"outlined<\/a>The completed double stem stitch outline, with the centre vein of the petal worked in running stitch.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m happy with that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well. I’m still a bit bereft of ideas for how to work the lily bud. Looking at the whole design, I think it needs to be a thin outline (perhaps), with a light filling. This is because the other parts of the design that are nearby have either wide outlines or are completely filled. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,10,30,28,36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-embroidery-stitches","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-stitch-along","category-the-left-handed-embroiderers-companion","category-the-right-handed-embroiderers-companion","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}