Cowboys and....bunnies?

Back to stitching on "Cowboy Dreams" last night.  The pattern is designed with a little rabbit next to the horse at the bottom, and it just wasn't working for me.  My husband's stepdad was a country vet, and while he did probably treat a rabbit or 2, I thought I could come up with something that connected better.  So I dug through my old JCS ornament issues until I found a dog in the correct scale - thank you, 2015 Mani di Donna design - and modified it just a bit to fit better.  I thought about stitching it in black, but it was just too dark (and given Step-Dad's declining health, made me think a bit too much about the black dogs/hellhounds from Supernatural).  So here is a...golden retriever?  Terrier of some sort?  He looked a little like a fox, so I added the red collar to emphasize his dog-ness.

Back to the Over-One

The horse's behind is now in the right place.  :)

(He still needs his tail stitched, but it is getting there!)  Obviously that is a cactus to his right, and I need to get back to the little "hill" on the left - there is also a little rabbit between the horse and the left-hand cactus, but I'm thinking about attempting to stitch a little dog instead.  DH's stepdad was a veterinarian.

Update Over-One

Here is my start/progress on "Cowboy Dreams."

I had to make floss substitutions, because my LNS doesn't carry Crescent Colors floss (plus I have LOTS of hand-dyed floss in my stash, and I might as well use it!).  The blue is Six Strand Sweets' Plum Parfait, the red is GAST Buckeye Scarlet, and the brown is GAST Nutmeg.  There is also a moon done in white - it will be right below the word "can" - that I'm going to use a pale yellow for instead.  The white just didn't show up well on the sand linen!

I think simple designs like this one (and Bent Creek's "Catch the Day" that I stitched earlier this year) look especially cute over-one.  And I'm not blind...yet...