CatsEye

Coming home

I made this cross stitch picture for my Dad's 63rd birthday. 

The chart was taken from a photo of our dog who, to be honest, loved my Dad much more for all the walkies and attention he got, than he loved me (the playful tormenting) or my Mum (the feeding and the bathing).

As Mum is moving into a retirement apartment, my picture of Fang* has come home with me.  I wonder what the cats will say to a canine in their midsts.

*Not his real name.  I really, really wanted to call him Fang but the parental units wouldn't let me.  I still think it would have been funny.

246. One of six

The Eye of the Tiger progresses slowly.  Only 5 more charts to go ...

(I tried to put a link to the completed pattern but Typepad is being precious).

218. Eye of the tiger

Following my recent cross stitch success, and the fact that I've once again found my thimble (yay!), I thought I might spend some time with this monster.  This is a picture of a tiger's eye, which has two tigers reflected in it.  It's pretty.  Pretty large.

I started this last spring, thinking that it could be a 40th birthday present for a somewhat tiger obsessed person.  I didn't even get this far when the event came and went.  It's small gauge, on difficult to see black and full of lots of little bits of colours.  For scale, this blurry shot is the extent of my achievement so far:

A fraction of the first chart (of six) almost complete.  Maybe it'll be done for his 50th birthday ...?

215. A little snack

During the great pre-decorating sort out, I re-discovered my box of cross stitch kits.  (I think there might be more upstairs somewhere, but for now I'd like to live in Denial.) 

This little picture was practically done, except for filling in all the white on his face and outlining the little fishies.  I don't know why I gave up at that point and put it back in the box, but there you go.  I'm strange like that.

So, he is finished now, although he needs the cross stitch equivalent of a block.  I'm thinking, due to the extreme number of framed pictures here already, that he might make a nice panel on a bag.