Flying together

All of the Charley Harper Cardinals are now home and comfortably posing on the wall!  Thought you might like to see them all together!

Framed, up close

We just returned from a trip and I picked up the three Charley Harper cardinals from my framer in NC!  This is the third and final one you have not seen framed.  Maggie does a beautiful job picking mats and frames for the designs every time.  This has a black inner mat, then the red on top of that and the frame has a bit of a pattern to it.  If you enlarge it, I think you will be able to see the pattern.  They are all framed in the same mat and frame and I will try and get them hung up very soon.

A full belly

I finished the third cardinal!    All the stitches on his belly are done and he will join his pals at the framer's!

A surprise to me

I worked on the bird's body using five strands of Splendor in the knotted stitch.  What surprised me was how long it took to get this far!  I will finish him tomorrow as I did get the wings and his legs done too.  All that is left is the small tummy area!

All the background

I made it!  Who would have thought that such a small canvas would take so long to do the background on?  I maybe should have done a different stitch, but wanted the Brick stitch for unity on all three of them....Now, for the fun stuff.  tomorrow I do the bird!

Made it!

Yup, finished the left side down to the bottom.  I am so pleased to get that far.....tomorrow it is back over to the right side.  Even though I am not sure if this will be framed as a square or oval, stitching all this much background gives my framer the option to do which ever looks best with the other two cardinals.

Back in business!

The Panache came in the mail and I got to stitch too!  Woohoo!  I got clear down to the foot on the left. Panache is a bit slippery and twists easily in the needle, so do a few, drop the needle, repeat!  I hope to get clear to the bottom tomorrow!

Row after row

I am working on the Brick stitch background and that is all I did today.  I did manage to get to the berries though.  Correction:  I am using Panache not Patina.  Jane thinks he looks like he is whistling....I can see that!

Getting started

I am working the background on this one in the Brick stitch over two threads, just like the other two, except I am using Patina 02.  It has some sheen to it and he is a small design.  I want him to coordinate with the other two so I did some of the top rows.  I then used five strands of Splendor 820 and did the berries at the top.  I also used five strands of black Splendor and did the face and the right foot print....more tomorrow.

The third bird

Here is the final cardinal by Charley Harper that I will stitch to go into the grouping of three.  He is a happy little guy with a design area of 5 x 8.  I plan on doing him very similar to the other two so the grouping will
"work" together.  Let the needles begin!