itch_to_stitch wrote:I love the tension of his whiskers and how they seem to float. Any special techniques or tricks?
The whiskers are done as single long stitches on top of the design, whereas all of the other outlining were normal backstitch. I use a Needle Needs frame (marvellous) so tension wasn't much of a problem and those stitches are well anchored on the back.
SusanF wrote:Even with all the horrible-to-to metallic stitching, I bet he still made you smile
Ohhh that darn metallic thread all the way around the border was so slow and fragile to stitch with. And you can hardly notice the effect of it in the photo (although you can see it in person thankfully).
My thanks again to everyone else for your very kind comments. I certainly agree it is a slightly "different" cartoon character design which is why it appealed to me over the usual "kiddies" patterns. A shame there are not a few more in a series.
It's really lovely. Reminds me of those old movie posters...
Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)
Kerri Current WIP:
HAED Chessie-10,200 of 90,300 - 11%
HAED Catch a Falling Star-8,900 of 203,900 - 4%
HAED Wrath-46,630 of 240,000 - 19% http://www.flickr.com/photos/kerbear879/sets/
what a lovely design this looks like lots of fun to stitch such a shame its now discontinued i would really like to do something like this
HAED hannah lynn QS heart of ice around 50% done
HAED julie fain cries of the night 1 and 1/2 page done
HAED jbg faces of faerie 75 1/5 page done
HAED spangler universe in a jar 1/4 page done
plus many more waiting impatiently to be stitched