Keeping Cool in the Neighborhood!

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I have always loved this canvas! It is a Maggie canvas and a black cat…need I say more? Well this little feline purrson is “Guarding the Village” but I think that he is just trying to keep himself cool on a hot, steamy summer day. I know that this is not AlleyCat in this canvas as she is just a bit thicker around the middle.

Speaking of keeping cool in the neighborhood…even though I live in America’s Finest City as they say with picture perfect weather, blue skies and cool ocean breezes almost every day, there is an unwanted guest in our “hood.” That would be all this humidity! and just where did you come from? It is making the days and night a little challenging to keep cool, calm and collected.

So I thought of this canvas that has been lurking in my stash for ages and just looking at all these trees helps me think cool. Like I really need to start something else, but why should I be any different form the rest of us? The shade, the trees, the great expanses of color, the beautiful blue skies! Ooh I am so anxious to start digging through my threads for color choices. I am thinking Gloriana’s Hydrangea which is always the perfect blue color for a sky and maybe Thread Gatherer’s Old Gold for the foreground. Of course a little black burmilana for the cat.

I had taken this to a canvas enhancement class ages ago and never really did much with it. I am not normally a speedy stitcher in class, I would rather listen to the teacher and take everything in and then go home and stitch. I was thinking of retiring this canvas, never to be stitched on again, but when I was at the summer TNNA show in Columbus, what do I see hanging on Maggie’s wall? This canvas! I studied it all over again and remembering how much I really do love this canvas. Thought about how I enjoyed every stitch on the Rainbow Birds, and why wouldn’t this make my heart sing with all of that color?  I need to get this on bars and start looking for threads and stitches so I can start this over the summer.

AlleyCat is trying to keep cool too…so cool that I think she was sticking out her tongue at me while I was taking the picture! and until next time…keep on stitching

 

 

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About Vicky

Needlepoint, morning noon and evening! what could be better than this? I work on the computer in the daylight hours editing stitch guides and drawing stitches that you will see in the next Needlepoint Now for your stitching pleasure! In between this, there is time for taking pictures of my stitching adventures, Facebook and writing stitch guides for canvas that I am stitching for Needle Deeva, Maggie, Ruth Schmuff and others. Mostly needlepoint you ask? well we will talk about my cats Sylvester and AlleyCat, better known as "the brat". Of course I can't forget Felix who was the love of my life for over 14 years. He broke my heart as he departed for the Rainbow Bridge last year. Oh did I mention baseball?

8 thoughts on “Keeping Cool in the Neighborhood!”

  1. Cool Canvas! Of course I have a lot of ideas for it like maybe ribbons for the roof tops, some good old stacked sloppy french knots for the trees and find some Sundance Sequins or even those flat whateveryoucallthem Swarovski crystals for the red things in the trees. A neat little brick stitch decreasing in size as the road goes toward the background, a smaller stitch for the purple house and increasing in size as you get to the houses up front. Hint Hint, Gloriana is going to dye silk chenille. A good black for the cat in long stitches might be a little shinier than wool. Doesn’t AC shine???

    This is a real fun sort of canvas and you can get a bit silly. Maybe even fuzzy stuff for AC? Oh how I wish I had time to stitch canvases other than SharonG stuff.

    Another thought on the houses. Since Gloriana comes in many different threads, try the more matte silk floss on the purple house and move toward the Petite Princess Perle for the middle houses with a fine metallic then Princess Perle with more sheen toward the front. You can add in a hint of metallic.

    I get so excited when others get into a new project, my teacher side starts spewing suggestions. Sorry….

    PS, do you find a new fruit box for AC every day? She has some collection of boxes.

    SharonG

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  3. I love this. The colors and the stitch possibilities are endless. Bet that will be fun to stitch. Keep cool

    Sue

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  4. I like your canvas. For some reason, I really like whimsical houses. If you don’t keep it, you can send it to me. 🙂

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  5. I have this canvas too! I just love it. I actually have it started (say maybe 2 or 3 years ago) and you might just motivate me to drag it back out again. Can’t wait to see what you do with it.

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