{"id":8622,"date":"2014-11-25T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:40:54","slug":"spots-the-eeyoropard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/25\/spots-the-eeyoropard\/","title":{"rendered":"Spots The Eeyoropard"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Got<\/a>

Got My Eye On You…!<\/p><\/div>\n

Under Rusty’s very bright and beady eye, I got started on the companion that Tanya provided for him in the Stitchalong on her blog, Opus Anglicanum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a>

Detail Of Underlayer<\/p><\/div>\n

Which turned out to be a Leopard!<\/p>\n

This closeup of his head and neck gives you a chance to see the two different shades used side by side in the underlayer of the laid and couched work.<\/p>\n

\"False<\/a>

False Start<\/p><\/div>\n

Once I’d finished the couching – in a modern twist, Tanya suggested working all the couching in a single colour, so that the Dragon and the Leopard will offer two versions of the same stitch – I had a slight false start with the outlining. When I tried the dark chestnut red, I wasn’t entirely happy with it. I’m not sure quite why, but perhaps it simply wasn’t distinctive enough against the orangey-red.<\/p>\n

\"Spots<\/a>

Spots The Eeyoropard<\/p><\/div>\n

I went back to the dark green I used on Rusty, and used the same creamy yellow for the highlights. I don’t think I put in quite the same highlight twiddles as Tanya put on hers, but I like him just the way he is.<\/p>\n

Apparently the Leopard of the medieval bestiary is a gentle creature – in spite of the fearsome claws, and according to Tanya, they all look “terminally grumpy”. I was talking about this with my friend @Matheknitician<\/a> a week or so back when she accosted me at the MathsJam weekend<\/a>, saying she was desperate to know what I was going to do with Rusty, and a day later she sent me a message suggesting that we should call Spots an Eeyoropard.<\/p>\n

So, ladies and gentlemen, – Spots the Eeyoropard! Please be nice to him – he’s rather shy..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Rusty’s very bright and beady eye, I got started on the companion that Tanya provided for him in the Stitchalong on her blog, Opus Anglicanum. Which turned out to be a Leopard! This closeup of his head and neck gives you a chance to see the two different shades used side by side in… Continue Reading Spots The Eeyoropard<\/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":[140,141,120],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laid-and-couched-work","tag-stitchalong","tag-wool","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","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=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8638,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}