{"id":15854,"date":"2025-06-10T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:55:27","slug":"ive-not-forgotten-aethelflaed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/10\/ive-not-forgotten-aethelflaed\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve not forgotten Aethelflaed…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… although I will admit that sometimes I don’t manage to fight away all the things that get between me and my frame at a time of day when I have any chance of stitching her sensibly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However – I’ve done the grass!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I stopped doing tussocks when I thought I might want to do more extensive tussocks in the foreground, and decided to do the horse first, in case I wanted seedheads nodding over its legs. But apart from the tussocks, the grass is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that means I now have a decision to make…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve decided she’ll be mounted on a grey (contrasting with William The Marshall’s chestnut), and that it will be grey tending to blue. But which blue, and how much blue, and what colour should the lightest shade be? This is going to be important, as I think I’m not going to do dapples this time, just shading and a smooth coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some thinking required…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… although I will admit that sometimes I don’t manage to fight away all the things that get between me and my frame at a time of day when I have any chance of stitching her sensibly! However – I’ve done the grass! Well, I stopped doing tussocks when I thought I might want to… Continue Reading I’ve not forgotten Aethelflaed…<\/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":[295,24,272,284,249],"class_list":["post-15854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aethelflaed","tag-design-elements","tag-designing","tag-medieval-movers-and-shakers","tag-opus-anglicanum","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854","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=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15856,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions\/15856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}