That is the name of the canvas! A design by Sharon G and I especially love her canvases, and no I am not saying that just cause I know she reads the blog from time to time! I really do love them…is it the cats? or is it the colors? or both?  The blocks and swatches of great hues in the design are so inviting for wonderful stitches and thread & bead combinations within each individual area.

Sharon G especially does really great cats. I would consider these a little more art deco or stylized that her more realistic cats. I have 2 of those in the stitching closet just waiting for me to pick them up and start stitching! One of these days…

Sharon gave me this canvas last year at one of the markets and I did start working on it right away. Of course I beaded the 2 main cats. I am wondering if it is those 2 that are having their Cat’s Night Out? Then this sort of fell to the back of the rotation as other canvases were being stitched. Canvases that had to be stitched, canvases that had deadlines. I was missing working on Cat’s Night Out and my reward for finishing the star for Raymond is a little stitching for me.

The purple stripe on the right side, I stitched in Bijoux, you know the one with the black core, the original stuff. I wasn’t sure if I liked it as it sort of sinks in, but seeing it in the picture, well I kind of like it.

I am working on the background behind the beaded cat in the upper right side in Kennan Stitch, using 2 strands Soie d’Alger for the Gobelin part of the stitch. Kreinik #8 in color 027 will be used for the single tent stitch. I am hoping that it will look just purr~fect!

As I continue from section to section, I will have an idea or will try something out. Allot of the what determines what stitch I select is the count of the area that I am working in. I am really precise in that the compensating stitches must flow and make sense. Otherwise I will try something else!

My brilliant idea is to have this finished for the framer when they call me and tell me that Deco Kitty is realy to be picked up. Lets hope I can pull this off. I probably too should write an preliminary stitch guide while it is fresh in my mind and I have the piece in front of me. If I wait too long the thoughts, strands, color names and stitches sort of disappear.

I came back from my morning walk to this greeting. They were both meowing at me as I came up the stairs. You would have thought that I had left them for days!

Of course the papers that I needed to take care of…guess where they were? and until next time…keep on stitching