In traditional skylore, a harvest moon is the full moon closest to Autumnal Equinox which is in just a few days. The moon waxes a bit larger each night to the full moon where it will shine brightly all night long.

The Harvest Moon always seems to be bigger and brighter than usual. That it is a result of the closeness of times of the moon rise, which way back when would give more light for the farmers. Doesn’t the Harvest moon seem to be the biggest of them all? Not! It is just an optical illusion.

Okay now what does the moon have to do with needlepoint? Read on…

One of my finishes is this canvas by Sharon G, entitled Cat’s Night Out with 5 cats sitting under the moonlight. It is not a full moon in this one though, but work with me here! The moon was done in a small balloon stitch which came from one of Brenda Hart’s books using Bijoux Glints.

The framers and I both fell in love with this purr~fect frame with the look of squares embedded in the black wood. Sort of mimics the little Scotch stitches in the canvas. Accented with a suede mat in a gorgeous rich deep purple…so dark that it looks black. The predominate use of Kreinik 002C that was used to stitch the border, carries over onto the mat where it was sewn into the mat and accented with brads. My framers are ooh so clever!

This was also the piece that I entered in the ANG exhibit this year. I didn’t tell anybody, didn’t say anything, just entered it with no expectations, no hopes, nothing. I just wanted to be able to share my work…plus I enter something every year, so why not? Well it was a ribbon winner and took home a first place ribbon in the painted canvas without stitchguide division. Maybe I need to do it that way more often!

Another moon on a Sharon G canvas. I really do love working on her canvases…can’t you tell? This moon was beaded. Was I crazy? or should I say what was I thinking? You know I love the way it came out! My framers got very creative and I absolutely love the results.

What are you stitching on these days?  It is time for me to get to work and get back to stitching what I should be stitching… no more goofing off for me! The baseball has been very good lately as we wind down to the last week of the regular season while teams battle now to be able to play on into October. So I have no excuses not to sit and stitch!

A little kitty tv for Sylvester. and until next time…keep on stitching