Dog's Head in Knotted Stitch

The head of the largest dog on the Cape Cod Dogs canvas is coming along. I've ended up starting the stitch at the collar by turning the canvas upside down and working from the top of the collar down to the top of the dog's head. If you look carefully at the 3-4 stitches that are above the dip in the collar, you can see I started the stitches there lower than the ones above the straight line of the collar. I thought that would look better than having large compensation stitches right above the collar where they would be very noticeable and the difference in the line does look like a turned neck. So I lucked out there.

Knotted stitch is very easy to switch colors with. I could have (but did not) do the long stitch in one color and the top tie-down stitch in another to further blend colors. I'll leave the black eye and pink mouth unstitched and do those later. I hope to finish the head tonight and then start on the long back of this dog.

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow