Cats in the Garden

Here's another of the little squares I did for Christmas gifts.  I finished this several weeks ago, but couldn't show it to you because the intended recipient watches Blog closely!

The pattern is by Pine Glen Designs and is a cross stitch pattern.  I should have done it in cross stitch!  There are a lot of partial stitches and that makes adapting it to needlepoint difficult. I would have been better off if I had studied the photo more, rather than sticking to the chart! 
I used Alpaca AL51 & AL64 and Watercolours 165 & 171 for the cats.  The background is a mix of #5 perle cotton and Watercolours 067.  The metallic dark green is FyreWerks FT27.  To make the stitching go faster, I used Mosaic in the center square and 3 sizes of Scotch till it was the right size.

The adaptation isn't perfect, but I think it turned out cute nonetheless!  Here it is all made up.  My friend loved it!