Purrfect Spring is finished. The final pieces were the top part of the wall and the window sill. I'm glad to have this done. I don't know what I'll do with it, but for now it will just go in the Finished pile.
Now I have 2 months to decide if I want to do the Stitching Games again next year! I'm leaning towards NOT. While it is a good way to get something done, I don't really like having to jump around stitching from the clues. I prefer a more orderly style.
August's stitching for Purrfect Spring only took me 2 stitching sessions. For the Slanted Gobelin window pane dividers. Used #3 perle cotton.
I really need a good clue next month to do gray kitty!
The Stitcherie challenge for July is finished. Got a lot done this month as they used a new type of clue, which had an option of being 3 clues! I took that option and completed the wall beneath the cats and the multicolored cat. Cat is all Very Velvet and the wall is Sleepy Oblong Cross (I think, something like that) in Rennaisance Designs Plain & Fancy, which is a thread I will NOT use again - it is polyester, but it came with the canvas and there was lots of it. Lesson learned.
Purrfect Spring got lots of stitching for May & June.
For May I stitched all of the sky - acres of basketweave in wool..
For June I did the flowers & grass outside the window. The flowers are little French knots in pearl cotton and the grass is my version of a slanted, encroaching gobelin with just 2 strands of floss in 2 colors of green.
Now I have to hope for clues that I can make work for the window frame, the other 2 cats and the ledge & wall they are sitting on.
What are these cats looking at anyway?!. If they're anything like my cats, they once saw a bird or squirrel out there and are hopeful forevermore.
The clue for the April Stitching Games was 3. Well, that's easy since the birdhouses have triangles for roofs. So I stitched the birdhouses. I will have to white out the part of the string that makes it look like the birdhouses don't know if they are inside or outside! I think they are outside.
Now I'm down to larger areas though, so I hope for clues I can work with! The rest of the year each month will take longer to stitch!
I have stitched the March part of the Stitcherie challenge. The kitty on the far right was painted kind of a pink or mauve. Well, I don't know about you, but I've never seen a pink cat, even on my worst day! Seemed odd since the other cats are all "real" colors. Anyway, I made it a "ginger" cat instead, using 2 colors of Watercolours and a Diagonal Victorian Step stitch. He looks much better in this color!
This is a painted canvas (OMG! ) called Purrfect Spring by Dee Ross. I purchased the canvas several years ago from one of the destash sites. It came with lots of threads too!
Last month I decided to use this canvas to participate in Stitcherie's 2015 Stitching Games.
For January, I did the green leaves at the top in #5 pearl cotton.
For February, I stitched the brown kitty. There wasn't any thread in the bag that came with that seemed right, so I used some Appleton tapestry wool from stash. Awful stuff! I would never use it for anything but animal fur - it is very coarse and inconsistent in thickness, and a bit hairy, but it did brush up nice which doesn't show in the photo. That said, it is very old and newer Appleton may be better, I don't know.
Progress to date:
P.S. Did you notice I finally got the new picture up for my header?!! Now that I know how to do it, maybe I can change it with the seasons.
