is finished! and I am thrilled with the way it came out…now you are saying, where is that fish that was stitched in your background?

The stitch as it was diagrammed by Brenda Hart in her 3rd book, Stitches for the Millenium has the cat stitched alternately with the fish. Remember when I said I was taking the Kreinik out? well after a few attempts and lots of reverse stitching, I finally figured that it was easier to stitch the cat first rather than the fish. You know that counting thing.

After the cats were all finished, I thought that it didn’t need the fish. I was thinking that it might become too busy. I am of the school that less is more in my stitching. Believe it or not the compensating stitches were not difficult at all! So I am considering this done and it will be going to the framers the next time I head up to A Stitch in Time. The framers is close to the shop. Even though our gas has come down a bit, it is still around $4.65 a gallon, so I will wait. I would rather spend that money on needlepoint stuff.

“Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 during the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain. It had only limited distribution, and thus was little known. The poster was rediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number of private companies, and used as the decorative theme for a range of products. It was believed there were only two known surviving examples of the poster outside government archives until a collection of 15 originals was brought in to the Antiques Roadshow in 2012 by the daughter of an ex-Royal Observer Corps member.

In 2000, a copy of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster was rediscovered in Barter Books, a second-hand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland. Since Crown Copyright expires on artistic works created by the UK government after 50 years, the image is now in the public domain.” So now we get to enjoy these clever sayings on our needlepoint canvas, on tshirts…well just about anything you can think of!

This is a canvas that patiently awaits some of my time. I have beaded the crown, but now I need to be stitching on what I need to be stitching, not what I want to….does that make sense?

Have you been watching the news as Endeavor crawled through the streets of Los Angeles? It is way behind it’s scheduled arrival time.

Pretty amazing & these are just a few of my favorite pictures courtesy of Yahoo!

Now this would have been worth a trip up to Los Angeles…

AlleyCat seems unfazed by it all…I love the way she crosses her paws.

and until next time…keep on stitching