{"id":8658,"date":"2014-12-16T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2014-12-01T19:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:03:33","slug":"more-laid-and-couched-work-the-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/16\/more-laid-and-couched-work-the-unicorn\/","title":{"rendered":"More Laid and Couched work – The Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Unicorn<\/p><\/div>\n

I enjoyed working Rusty<\/a> and Spots<\/a> in the Opus Anglicanum<\/a> Stitchalong so much I decided I wanted to do some more laid and couched work.<\/p>\n

I rummaged around in my heraldry books and online for medieval unicorns (for a quadruped) and swans (for something winged), and produced something of a synthesis. Some of the medieval unicorns had leopard feet, and one of them had a curly, piggy tail. Mine has vaguely leopardly feet, and a lion’s tail. I’ve sized him so that he fills the same space as did Spots.<\/p>\n

It occurred to me that I may want to work medieval creatures in the corners of the Vision of Placidus<\/a>, when I get that far. I was going to use Rusty, Spots, and their friends, but then I realised that in that context, it would be more\u00a0 appropriate to the story of conversion to use the symbols of the Evangelists \u2013 the winged ox, ram, man, and eagle.<\/p>\n

\"Unicorn<\/a>

Unicorn – the first layer<\/p><\/div>\n

So I’m still not sure what I will do with these present creatures when they are done..<\/p>\n

Since I am using existing stores here, and I wasn’t sure I would have enough of the colours I used for Rusty and Spots,\u00a0 I moved on to a different colour range – purples and blues. These aren’t the slightly fluffy Appleons wools I used for the other two, but are rather smoother, softer version.<\/p>\n

Again, I’m stretching out the colours by threading two colours in the needle for the underlayer. And my goodness, doesn’t it grow quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoyed working Rusty and Spots in the Opus Anglicanum Stitchalong so much I decided I wanted to do some more laid and couched work. I rummaged around in my heraldry books and online for medieval unicorns (for a quadruped) and swans (for something winged), and produced something of a synthesis. Some of the medieval… Continue Reading More Laid and Couched work – The Unicorn<\/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-8658","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\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}