You know I never met a cat I didn’t like! Cats in my house, cats in my needlepoint, cats all over my house in pictures, pillows, statues, vases, blankets, jackets, clothes and whatever else you can think of. Yes there is no hope for me…

I just love these Needle Deeva Hearts! From start to finish it is usually under 6 hours. This one would have probably been even quicker, but I restitched the center blue section, it was just too busy and I didn’t like the way the compensating stitches fell into place. See I am really fussy about that and will sometimes count out the stitch and if I can’t get it to flow smoothly in areas where there are lots of those compensating stitches, I will look for another one! This heart is stitched in Burmilana, Anchor & DMC flosses, Mandarin Floss and lots of Kreinik! Four colors of Kreinik I think and of course we can’t forget the beads! ooh the beads and that is my favorite part. If you are not a bead person, I am sure that French knots would work or you could even just stitch the stars and the moon.

Needle Deeva has been busy designing more hearts for us. Actually I have 5 or 6 more in my hot little hands right now! I feel like a shopping trip today for some threads and beads for my new little hearts. Yes I know that I have other canvases that are ahead of the hearts, but these are such a quick stitch, how can I say no? My goal is to have as many stitched as I can for the Baltimore show next month and who knows if the painters have quick hands, we might even have some canvases there for cash and carry!

AlleyCat continues to convince me that position is really everything in life. and until next time…keep on stitching