Last I left you on the blog, it was with this canvas. Canvas by Annie Lane, a new, new, new designer that I love, love, love! Isn’t that exciting when we have a new designer? means needlepoint is growing and flourishing!

I see this as a screen door…don’t you? So what else do you create a screen door with?

Black Kreinik! and lots of it…actually it was 4 spools of #4 (even though this shows #8) in a 4-way continental. If I was worried about my eyes not seeing, there really was no need to worry, as I had no problem.

and some more Kreinik as I outlined the light fixture with Kreinik and then stitched the base with 22L Molten Mocha, which is one of their Holographic threads.

The screen door was hours and hours after the 4 spools of Kreinik and then 2 skeins of ThreadworX for the wood around the screen. Then 3-4 more skeins for the wall. I am enjoying stitching on the canvas so much, which has been a collaboration with Susan Portra. It is supposed to be a model for Cindy who represents Annie Lane, but you may not get this canvas back!

Notice the little red stitches in the margin of the canvas? that was to lock in each row and to keep the last stitch as straight as the one next to it. I worked across for each row, to try and spread the colors change out. I am thrilled with it!

Baseball has been amazing these last few days. OMG it doesn’t get much better! All too soon the season will be over, maybe 2 more weeks at the most…but then it will be time to think about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Thankgivukkah (what’s that you ask? well that is a topic for another day?!) Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years and then it will be the January trade show. Wow where did this year go?

ooh the working conditions that I must endure. First AlleyCat decides that she wanted to sit right on my work and then…then if that wasn’t bad enough, she turned her back to me! and until next time…keep on stitching