Paige of Blue Ridge Stitchery explains how to handle areas of a canvas that aren't stitch painted* but have blended shading of multiple colors.
For those who don't have an Instagram account, Paige suggests
A) using one thread in a medium shade worked in one open stitch or in T-stitch.
B) using multiple thead colors but only one stitch to unify the area and make it recede.
*Stitch painted means a canvas with every canvas thread intersection carefully covered with one paint color so there is no guessing as to what color goes there.
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