Is a Charle Harper canvas that I did years ago when Amy Bunger took her “cooking up class” on the road! It has always been one of my favorites and I brought it back to life with some new framing. Can you see the cat face’s is peering through the fish bowl watching the fish and just hoping for a little snack?!
The framers that I have been so lucky to find do the most amazing work! They had also framed my Catwalk by Sharon G that I just love. Nancy adds her special touch with her illustrations on the top mat, which really makes it. So talented these two ladies! Sometimes I might just give them something and say frame it! and other times I just may pick out the frame, color and type of the mat and still let them add their special touches.
I am thinking that my Brenda Stofft canvas of Santa riding the Panda is feeling somewhat neglected as I did not work on it yesterday as promised! Instead I stitched a little on the Rainbow Birds, read a little, stitched a little more on the Pischke Pocket, read a little more and spent a little time with my orchids. I never had an orchid until about 3 years ago and really realized what beautiful plants they are. It is like having fresh flowers in the house all the time and the cats don’t snack on them! All of my orchids are blooming right now and oh I may have added a few new ones lately. AlleyCat thought that she was in the jungle yesterday as she sits and supervises! and until next time…keep on stitching
Alley Cat looks to be purr-fectly content in her orchid jungle. I am not sure how I feel about those alternative stitching activities, but as long as you make up for it today… I should talk. I spent a fair amount of time in the kitchen yesterday and not stitching on any of the multitude of works in progress. Can’t wait to see progress on the pocket, the birds (of course) and the panda/Santa combination.
Maybe not much stitching today as I need to work! Eight more stitch guides to finish up and starting to work on the July/August Needlepoint Now issue
I love your framer. I suppose they can do stuff by mail. BTW, Alley Cat looks especially elegant amongst your orchids. I only wish I had a flat surface to put some plants on. Mine are all occupied by stuff and a few everblooming African Violets that I can not kill.
I would love the name of your framer. I use Value Craft and I like them, but I love the drawing on the mat, and I have a piece that could use some “tarting up.”!!
I used to grow phaeleonopsis [?] orchids in my old house. They LOVED the loved the light in my kitchen’s East/Southeast garden window. I could NOT kill them! They would flower two or three times each! I loved that window, not the house, but that window!!
Love the cat in the canvas and the cat by the orchids. Great work, as usual, I love Charlie Harper and have some waiting – patiently – to be sitched. I’d love the name of the framer too, what a fantastic job.
Can you please share the stitch that you used for the water in Charley Harper’s Fishful Thinking?
Thank you so much.
Look in Brenda Hart’s books, Stitches to Go and maybe one of Julia Snyder’s books too.