This canvas was finished sometime before I started the blog. One day I want to have it framed and then the next day I say no, I will have it made into a stitching bag. Then I say no, I have enough bags I will have it framed. Yesterday I finally made up my mind and off to the finishers it went! I convinced myself that “well I don’t have a stitched bag for my stitching” and that is why I am going for the bag.

This canvas is an all time favorite of mine by Lee. Actually I love it so much that I have stitched it more than once! Well not exactly this one, but they have a smaller version of this tiger that focuses on the eyes. That one I stitched all in Kreinik’s that Brenda Hart helped me select. The effect is wonderful and that was set into a Lee bag. I am also doing it again by beading it, and for now it has been moved to the back of the line, and maybe soon to come out of hiding. This one in the picture was stitched all in basketweave using Paternayan and a little Kreinik for the eyes. As much as I love “stitches” I love basketweave just as much as it is so relaxing, kind of  like comfort food.

Here is the lion or should I say lioness? and until next time…keep on stitching