{"id":12278,"date":"2020-01-14T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2020-01-10T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:13:43","slug":"stitching-the-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/14\/stitching-the-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitching The Hounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Flat Colour Layer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the delights of Laid and Couched work is the slight sense of a return to childhood, but with added skills, as it were. The first layer consists of the threads laid and couched (hence the name), and is rather like “colouring in”: it produces a layer of flat colour, which will be tweaked and detailed later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or in this case, not quite flat colour. The thread Tanya includes is wool that she has dyed herself using natural dyes, and there are unevennesses in the colour that only adds to the charm. As you can see from the two large blue leaf-shapes. I was a bit over-determined to pack in the stitches on the frontmost hound and didn’t have thread leftover for the leaves. This being a holiday project, I went rootling in my stash for an indigo wool, and they only one I have is both much darker, and a different structure. But that will matter less when the details are added, so onwards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trellis Variation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Each leaf-shape used the other colours in a different way – as grid, as outline, as couching stitch. The outlines are in split stitch, and each of the grids is couched slightly differently, with a horizontal stitch, a vertical stitch, and upright cross or a diagonal cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, I experimented with grid spacing for the blue one shown here. I like this variation, even if it does produce a rather loud plaid effect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was quite glad to find the variations slipping in. They might be a sign that I’m recovering from Akhenaten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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