{"id":12284,"date":"2020-01-21T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12284"},"modified":"2020-01-10T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T18:15:34","slug":"finishing-the-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/21\/finishing-the-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Hounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Outlines<\/a>
Outlines Done<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The next task was to work the outlines and the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each hound is outlined in a contrasting colour, as is each leaf shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outline colour is also used for the little details – mouth, eyes, ears, and at the point at which I took this photo, I’d stitched all the ground (in twisted chain, which I don’t think is at all historically accurate, but it was fun!) but not yet outlined the tree trunks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"More<\/a>
More Variations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This photo gives a sense of the effect of the chocolate brown outlines around the green trunks, and affords you a nice close up of the leash on the front hound, worked in cable chain stitch, very small and neat. This is another one where I doubt the historical accuracy, but I was so pleased to find myself thinking up ideas like that I was in no mood to spoil the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t usually go in for such overheated ideas as New Year Resolutions, working on the principle that if I want to change something, I don’t hang around waiting for the new year to do so. However, stitching the hounds has given me something a bit like one – I need to go back to my first love, to the effects of stitch and thread, and the use of them to denote the textures or the ideas I want to convey. Let’s see how that pans out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Highlights<\/a>
Highlights And All<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I give you The Three Wise Hounds, design by Tanya Bentham<\/a>, stitched by me. I didn’t quite finished them by Twelfth Night, but since Epiphanytide lasts until Candlemas, on the second of February, I think I can get away with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next task was to work the outlines and the ground. Each hound is outlined in a contrasting colour, as is each leaf shape. The outline colour is also used for the little details – mouth, eyes, ears, and at the point at which I took this photo, I’d stitched all the ground (in twisted… Continue Reading Finishing the Hounds<\/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":[140,220,120],"class_list":["post-12284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laid-and-couched-work","tag-the-three-wise-hounds","tag-wool","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284","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=12284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12287,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions\/12287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}