I’ve lost count of how many canvases that I have stitched and finished this year… wow! But you say, well you haven’t shown many or even any of them?

Well this is just 5 of the 8 or 9 canvases that I stitched for Raymond over the summer! You can find the stitch guide for Raymond Crawford’s Halloween Train or “H Train” in the current issue of Needlepoint Now.

It never gets old seeing your work published! It’s like thinking, wow I have arrived and it really is very thrilling seeing your name in print. So when I know I am stitching something that’s coming out in the magazine, I like to give Elizabeth the respect of letting you see it in the magazine first.

This is what Raymond envisions the display of the “H Train” to be. So the “cahearse” as he likes to call it has been finished (seen on the left)… along with my favorite of the flatbed car (shown in the middle) with a black cat, Swarovski crystals on the candleabra, along with the use of the new threads Silken Straw. Two more of the little standups will be seen in the magazine too! Okay Raymond I need to stitch the house and the pumpkin silo now…right?

You can take a ride on the rest of The “H” Train in an up and coming issue of Needlepoint Now…so stay tuned!

It has been so unbelievably hot in Southern California… I am so over this. I like waking up to cool, crisp mornings, not this 80+ something, which is what it was at 4am! Okay the cats, well specifically Sylvester know that my eyes are opened…and he gets very insistent that I need to get up and serve breakfast, you know I am just starving him! That look, those meows, those paws, that cold nose in your face and so much more makes you give in all too soon. Maybe I will try to take a little catnap now…

and until next time…keep on stitching