Follow the White Bunny

Last week I started a new cat portrait of my 11 month old cat Maisie. It's probably the most challenging portrait I've made so far. Maisie's fur pattern is very varied: a bit tabby and a bit mackerel and a good portion tortoise with white. So I pulled out lots of diffe...

When I was making the photo collage of some of my embroidery work this year, I thought the Cat portraits really were the most eye-catching pieces, hence the 'Year of the Cat' title of this post. :)  While recovering from surgery I started on a portrait of my cat Milo (...

We're just passed the halfway mark of the Cat Portrait Stitch Along. A good moment to share my progress of my embroidery of Tijger. I just learned that Tijger (Dutch for 'Tiger') was a Mackerel Tabby but I guess most people would refer to her fur pattern as 'Tiger Stri...

Today I finally got to meet my supermodel cat of the past months in real life! 

Sambal wasn't overly impressed when I was visiting but my cousin Suzanne sent me some great photos afterwards. 

Now Sambal's portrait is done I am very much ready to start on my next cat-broi...

In an ideal world (well my ideal world anyway!) I would travel around the world and teach embroidery workshops everywhere. I'd love to sit and share my furry stitching techniques in Portland, New York, Sydney or Tokyo (to name but a few places)! Sadly that's not the ca...

 In preparation for the Cat Portrait Stitchalong I'm hosting next month, I'm making a portrait of my cousin's cat Sambal. I thought it would be a good idea to stitch a cat portrait while writing about embroidering cat portraits so I could remind myself of all the steps...

I'm in the process of writing a guide on how to embroider a catportrait. Not just any cat but your cat! I thought it would be fun to launch it in September with a Cat PortraitStitch Along.* The guide will be the starting point and it'll be offeredto Stitch Alongers for...

Due to health issues I spent a lot of time resting on the couch in the past weeks. I did a lot reading (novels mostly and I read a book about how Roman emperors died, they seldom met their end in bed apparently) and after a while I naturally (re)turned to embroidery....