{"id":1328,"date":"2010-09-02T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-08-27T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T09:14:07","slug":"burnt-bark-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/02\/burnt-bark-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt Bark Cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another bit of catching up. This was my third project (out of four) for the City and Guilds Certificate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the front:<\/p>\n

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And this the back:<\/p>\n

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My original inspiration were some photographs of burnt tree bark I took down at the Eden Project<\/a> a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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For the back of the cushion I came up with a pattern inspired by the geometrical fracturing of the bark when it burnt. Here is my test sample, done in different yarn to the stuff I finally used, and with a different number of stitches and rows in each section, but I did end up using the same basic idea.<\/p>\n

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For the front I started by sketching one of the knots on the bark, and then manipulated this until I got a kind of flower shape. I knew that I wanted the flower shape to be worked in a textured stitch against a stocking stitch background, so I swatched several different textured stitches, and different yarns until I settled on k1,p1 moss stitch as the most effective.<\/p>\n

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Out of all the yarns I tried I decided I liked cotton best, but a soft cotton, not mercerised. I experimented with holding several strands of 2ply machine knitting cotton from Uppingham Yarns<\/a> together, and knitting with 8 of them at the same time on 5mm needles. I tried one sample with all strands the same colour (brown):<\/p>\n

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one with 6 strands of blue and 2 of purple:<\/p>\n

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and one with 4 strands each of brown and red, which was the one I finally decided on:<\/p>\n

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For one project out of the four we also have to produce a mood board \/ display board, so I thought that this project would lend itself well to that.<\/p>\n

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Fiona has marked it and it is all OK (whew!). I had better get a move on with the last project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another bit of catching up. This was my third project (out of four) for the City and Guilds Certificate. This is the front: And this the back: My original inspiration were some photographs of burnt tree bark I took down at the Eden Project a couple of years ago. For the back of the cushion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-guilds","category-finished-projects-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}