Decisions! decisions! all these threads as I search for just the perfect thread that talks to me for the Needle Deeva Hearts that I am working on. I have been keeping the Deeva busy designing them as she has been in a Halloween mood lately. We have sugar skulls, Halloween stars, witches, spiders, black birds, stink eyes and who would have thunk that one? oh and did I mention cats? there are 2 more new cats in this grouping!
After Deeva designs one, it is then whisked off to Michelle at Needlepoint of La Jolla where she paints the masters to perfection! I anxiously await the delivery of one so that I can start selecting threads and beads and thinking up of stitch ideas. These hearts are pretty small, so the scale of the stitches need to be the same, but then again I still want them to be wonderful and exciting. This was my selection progress the other day. For some unknown reason I was able to get through this without any feline supervision! Wonders never cease to amaze me.
On my last trip to the San Gabriel Bead Company for a stash enhancement experience, I discovered these new Glow in the Dark beads! I am so excited and can’t wait to use them. They are a Czech bead in a size 8, which will be way too large for these hearts, so I will need to wait for a 13 mesh canvas. The Halloween Garden series by Melissa Shirley would be “purrfect” for these new beads.
On the schedule today is a little stitching and allot of baseball or maybe allot of stitching and a little baseball. AlleyCat was working very hard last night keeping my threads warm for me. There are a million and one places you can nap, why does it have to be on my threads? and until next time…keep on stitching
P.S. the new quilt is living on the bed right now, neatly folded and showing off it’s beauty
Do you have those canvases laid out in a shop or is that your at-home stash? I love picture of Alley Cat amidst your stitching. I think pets and stitching go hand-in-paw. One of our dogs often lays on my lap as I stitch over her. And I am sure there are schnauzer hairs in everything I stitch.
Nancy, no that is at home. I have worked realy hard in the last year to organize the threads. You know after working in a shop for many years and taking ooh so many classes, I do have a little stash. I am standing up at the “bar” and lay the boxes and canvases out and start my shopping! It is amazing that I still need to buy threads…
Alley Cat, Sylvester, go lay on your mama’s new quilt so she’ll take a picture of it for us. Glow in the dark beads? What’s next, do you suppose?
K.B. I will give the kids your message!
“There are a million and one places you can nap, why does it have to be on my threads?”
lol. Awesome. Could be worse though. Like you just placed your canvas on stretch bars, turn around for a few seconds and when you go back there’s a cat comfortably lying down on it. I think this is how they say they want to be part of the needlepoint experience.
ooh but I learned that lesson the hard way many years ago! I never ever leave a canvas laying around so that they can curl up on it!