or should I say allot of stash enhancement? Look at these wonderful threads….Pepper Pot Silk by Planet Earth Fibers. Love this stuff! love, love, love, did I say love enough?

I ordered a designer ring awhile back, which a designer ring is 1 of every color. They came beautifully packaged in numerical order, as if I were to hang on the the walls. I have thought about having some slatwall installed in my stash closet to hang some of my threads…but then I thought kitties and hanging threads, not such a great idea!

The Pepper Pot made a detour trip to the studios of Needlepoint Now for its photo shoot. Elizabeth painstakingly grouped them into color families, which I like awhole lot better. But since I am not hanging it on my walls, it is instead stored in a thread box, patiently waiting for me to select some of this thread for my next project.

I selected every good red for this canvas. Tomato, Chili, Cocktail Sauce, Beet, Watermelon~are we eating or stitching? I narrowed it down to Cocktail Sauce. I knew that I would need to purchase a few more skeins before I started as I wanted to make sure that they were all the same dyelot. You know that routine. In the meantime I started the stitch that I wanted to try with a great color of Splendor… I was enjoying it so much that I lost myself in the canvas and before I knew I had enough done to know #1 I loved it! and #2 I wasn’t taking out what I had stitched already to try it with the Pepper Pot.

I so do enjoy stitching with the Pepper Pot Silk. If you have the opportunity to try some, you should…No plying, feels wonderful in your hands, goes through the canvas with ease, a little heavier than Impressions and a little thinner than Vineyard Silk. Beautiful for basketweave and did I say no plying? what’s not to love about this wonderful thread?

I wanted to make sure that you saw all the colors. Hiding underneath is the Keep Calm and Love Dogs canvas. I should be able to finish up the canvas this week!

I have not yet hung my Keep Calm and Love Cats on the wall yet…it is still lives wrapped in the paper from the framers. I got it out as I wanted to look and see how I angled the C or was it the O? Well whatever. Guess who wasted absolutely no time at all finding a new napping spot?

don’t even think about leaving any pawprints on that glass AlleyCat! and until next time…keep on stitching