Patchwork Mouse

Peppermint tabby (cross stitch)
Misty calico (cross stitch)

Ladypup/Ladycat (red fur with black spots)

Made a round kitty, a further adaptation of the dino-kitty pattern. Tail is too low, and I'm not sure it needs the back legs. Tail is also too thin, although the very fluffy fur on this one disguises the problem.

Thinking about renaming the dino-kitty to kittysaurus. This would be a better match for the Jurassic Bark that I now want to make. (Probably--almost certainly--Dalmatian fur. CR's Crafts has it.)

Took that stained glass weekend class again, with a different instructor. We were able to make free-form pieces instead of a panel. I made: the teddy bear that I desperately wanted, a great bat, and a little black Halloween cat.

Acrylics class at the library today, probably the last one I will do. I really like the cat in the window. I wish I had dared pattern it, like some people did; I guess I'll have to do more.

The stippling did NOT work, although I managed a tiny galaxy with a regular, small brush. Painted over the canvas about three times, and finally made a space/sky/star cat: black silhouette on starry background. Too many stars, but it works. Might do another one with a different cat shape, one with open eyes. Or not.

On to other things!

Completed the bookmark!

Note to self: the edges are stripey.

Further note: all 14-count aida cloth is not identical. One side of the bookmark is slightly longer, despite being the same number of stitches on the same count aida.

Finished the Motley cross stitch, featuring my childhood cat. I had intended to make a full length portrait, but I screwed up the proportions despite gridding it, so I scaled down the plan. It looks great, though.

Double-stranding a too-dark brown with a variegated brown/cream worked magnificently. I will definitely have to try that again if occasion arises.

Made the Kitty in Pink necklace. The stones are rhodonite and pink opal. I had to choose carefully which beads I used, because a lot of the opal in particular was the wrong color and/or had ugly dark inclusions. (The rhodonite is darker, but the lightest pieces of that were very similar in shade to the darkest pieces of opal.)

I had almost forgotten how to use head pins. It will take practice to get good at working with them again.

Not quite finished with beading after all. Turns out I have lots of space in the Balticon art show, so I made the purple fish earrings, plus a necklace out of one of the other two-piece cats.

The cat necklace is a bit shorter than I had intended--barely 18"--but it works. The cat is blue and brown, so I used rutilated quartz chips and some blue quartzite chips.

I have three more cats: brown, pink, and aqua. Now (or rather, later this year) I want to make them all into necklaces. Plans--
brown: the rest of the quartz, plus some brown chips [tiger-eye!]
pink: rose quartz, and maybe something a little darker but still pink [pink opal looks promising; I bought some rose quartz but it's barely pink at all]
aqua: the rest of the quartzite, which is aqua and lighter blue, plus maybe some white [white turquoise, howlite, or possibly marble]

I'm not doing a quilt next after all, because I'd need more panel space. Haven't quite decided which stuffed animal, though. I should make the gingham dog; I might make the Doctor Goose (Canada goose); the stealth skunk, the Borg-i, and the hell poodle are all clamoring to be made soon. [starting the gingham dog (beagle) this afternoon]

[edits in square brackets on 4/1]

Finished making the Sphinx kitten. It came out very well.