{"id":13973,"date":"2022-07-12T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13973"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:53:32","slug":"dobbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/12\/dobbin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobbin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dobbin covers quite a bit of the canvas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I’d done all the masses of what for want of a better term I am going to call long and short stitch, using blends of stranded cotton, I sat back and looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve added some long stitches to the tail, using two differently coloured strands of stranded cotton twisted together. I’m not sure whether to add more of this, or even whether to leave it in, but I wanted to help emphasize the length of the tail, and this is one way to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The conversation is very clear to see now, I think. The colours are similar, but not the same, the technique is the same, and there is a real sense that Dobbin and the dog (Polly the pointer?) are having a proper catch-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder what they are talking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actually, once I looked at the conversation as it stands, I thought there was a little still missing…<\/p>\n\n\n

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That’s better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s nothing like the thickness the mane would truly have, but I think it gives just the right recollection of the shaggy long hair of Dobbin’s mane, and the blue cotton on the harness and the back of the saddle suggest sunlight on the leather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s turned out much better than I feared!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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