What a wonderful evening of stitching we had last night! My sister is working on a Melissa Shirley snowman ornament while I was stitching on the Rainbow Birds. I love this canvas so much that I really can’t just put it away, to be forgotten or never to be stitched on again. The cats were well behaved too as they nestled in among the canvases, threads and us! The needlepoint gods looked favorably upon the stitchers as the needles were flying and the bad words weren’t!

I was able to complete the breast of bird #2 with that challenging stitch of Brenda’s called Points Plus. I guess the 3rd time was the charm for me. In order to get it to shade correctly, I manipulated the color on the Gloriana Cinnamon so that I used the darkest part of it up against the red. The accent stitches are in Kreinik #8 color 03 and 127 and it is now finished! My next plan of attack is to finish the little bit of compensation on the plume on bird #1 and then work on the beaks, while I redo beak #2 as I have since learned that I did not count correctly.

My sister and I are off for a day of stitching with the gang and lunch. Can’t ever get enough of stitching time, can we? and until next time…keep on stitching