{"id":1519,"date":"2010-07-27T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T08:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2014-02-11T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:40:15","slug":"c-is-for-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/27\/c-is-for-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"C is for Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C is for Cat Cushion Panel<\/p><\/div>\n

When I saw this as a painted canvas is a needlework shop, it immediately made me think of a friend who had a black cat, so I thought of doing it as a present.<\/p>\n

The original canvas showed a seal-point Siamese with blue eyes, so I stretched a few points and used grey and navy to create a black cat that was light enough to show its shape and markings, and gave him green eyes as well. The cat is entirely worked in basketweave tent stitch. Much as I enjoy working the ornamental stitches, sometimes restraint is advisable!<\/p>\n

Besides, the bright blue “C” is double padded with soft embroidery cotton and then satin stitched over with pearl cotton. I thought that would be quite dramatic enough without any additional flourishes!<\/p>\n

The background is worked as a gentle oblong check in Straight Cashmere Stitch<\/a>, using two shades of soft embroidery cotton that tone with the velveteen I used to make the cushion it is mounted on. I’d almost forgotten about this panel until I was rummaging for notes of some other embroidery I had done and found a reference to it, so it is gratifying to find that I am still very pleased with it. It was a fairly simple and straightforward design, and I think my choice of stitches and threads was simple enough to reflect that while having enough variation to be interesting.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the real cat thought of his portrait. Cats are what they had in mind when they came up with the word “inscrutable”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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