My fingers were itching to stitch the night away as I haven’t been doing much of that lately. Even though my heart really wants to work on say my Cat’s Night Out or my new Pische Pocket, a little voice in the back of my head is telling me “you need to stitch on the Dishwashing Pixie and the Needlepoint Pixie.” Yes I know you are right as I am sure that Ruth is anxious to have them back in her hands. Ruth and I did a little brainstorming with them at the show and hopefully she has inspired me to get the techniques down that she shared with me.
I have been doing way too much reverse stitching with these pixies. My brilliant idea was to basketweave the window with Water ‘N Ice so I was working away while watching a very good baseball game! not paying any attention whatsoever to how it was looking, but rather intently watching the Red Sox & Rays battle it out..should I say more like listening…until I took a much needed refill the ice tea glass break. I looked at how it was coming out and it was awful! The window was way too heavy and looked dirty, so out it came and I started rummaging through my threads. I tried both a Vintage Kreinik and Bijoux and I eventually went with the Bijoux and stitched the moon with Accentuate which I like very much.
Beaded her little needle, worked on her face, arms, legs and began the walls in a Kennan stitch with DMC floss and the lighter color will be Mandarin Floss. I have the rest of her stitched out in my head. I will just hope that what I have stitched in my mind will look as good when it is on the canvas! I know that sometimes I am my own worst critic, but I need to be pleased with my work before I can take it off the stretcher bars.
I plan on staying close to home today and stitch! my morning will start off by watching two of baseball greatest franchises, the Cubs and the Yankees playing at Wrigley Field and hopefully I will get the Dishwashing Pixie finished. Sylvester has really settled in here. I think that the kids and I will take a day off as tomorrow is a few hours with Susan Portra…and until next time time…keep on stitching
Love the beaded needle!
Prince Sylvester is such an animal of comfort and originality – it would be just awful if we had to tell him there was no royalty in this country – would break his little sweet heart right in half. I love this picture!
While I love your stiching and what you’re doing with the pixie I have to say Sylvester stole the show. That picture is the best I’ve seen of your cats to date. So cute. It looks like he’s the one doing the stitching and exhausted after a hard day of work. lol
Palma, thanks for the great laugh! see it is good when they are sleeping as they don’t get into my threads!
Vicky,
This is amazing! It’s so much work, I can’t believe it. There is so much to read and see and what is really interesting is that I am seeing stuff that I must have missed or skipped over accidentally.
Are you going to stitch Lani’s tea collage/canvas? I am dying to but it’s so big and of course I have so much else. Let me know if you do. I had a great time taking Julia’s “Raymond’s Christmas Tree” and that’s all I want to do right now. Take care and keep up the great work. Fay
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Hi Fay, No I wasn’t planning on stitching the tea collage at the moment, even though I would love to! You can sign up for the RSS feed or just pop in every so often!
Thanks so much