Stitched Canvases
Below is an example of how you can stitch the canvas. This
is a fun canvas to stitch. It is at an odd angle due to the fact that it was
under glass in a picture. The stitches were selected with the crab in mind.
The shell was stitched with a perle cotton and metallic to create the knobby
effect a crab shell has. We used rayon threads to create the shine on the
claws. The rest was a blend of perle cotton and silk and ivory to make the
crab pop. 
Below is an example of how you can stitch the canvas. The jar comes with this particular canvas. I used metallics, an overdye perle cotton and various rayon threads to create the effect I wanted. It is a big hit in the store, especially when it is filled with candy.
Below is an example of how you can stitch the canvas. I have used some of the new Kreinik threads which are a matte finish. I used some open stitches. This is finished as a bookweight to hold open cook books, etc.
The background on this canvas is completely open. I used stitches in various directions to create depth. This would make a great purse, box, or pillow.
Below is an example of how you can stitch the canvas. Open stitches were used to create a lacy effect. It’s really the finishing that makes this canvas shine. I barely got a picture of it when it was picked up and brought home. The stitcher was very happy with this finished canvas.
Here is what the Christmas blocks looks like finished. Shown is all sides of block stitched.
These originally were the mini socks. I made them a rectangle and finished them with a hard back so I can display them on an easel and will eventually bead a hanger so I can hang them on the wall.
This canvas also went through Katrina. My framer decided to give it a new look with the cut mat. I just love it. This was my first excursion into shadow stitching. I used a thin thread on the water.
I love my framer. I cried when I saw this one and the previous one framed. It took me a long time to want to frame any of my pieces due to Katrina. I’m thankful that we were able to save as many as I did.
The first picture is my jean purse. I stitched it with a lighter version of Kreinik than the one on the right. I like both versions.
Below is an example of how you can stitch the canvas. I used a lot of light threads to create the effect I wanted. The stitches I used create the effect of scales. I used an overdye on the belly with a light coverage and it turned out great. I had a lot of fun doing this fish. You can too!
. I used a lot of light threads to create the effect I wanted. If you look at the blue on the head you will notice that it is shaded. I used one thread and the canvas did the shading for me. The gray is the same way, but it is hard to see here.
. I used Burmilana, Kreinik, Floche, Ribbon Floss, Petite Very Velvet, Sparkle Braid and Hi-lights. I left the deep coral background open because I love the look it created with this piece.
I used French knots with an overdye thread for the hat, various padded stitches and left part of the border open to create a lacy effect. The background is one strand of floche so you can see the shading though the stitching.
This is to show how you can finish the crosses. These are fun to do and you don’t have to do the background.
. I used Access Commodities Bijoux, Kreinik braid, Rainbow Gallery Fiesta, wool, perle cotton and beads.
You never know when inspiration will strike. I was going out of the store one evening and I looked at the canvas and it screamed out for jessicas. Once the idea was in my mind, I had to stitch it that night. To heck with what I was working on. I had fun creating the swirls for the tail.
Here it is finished into a purse.
This canvas is fun to do. I have done many of these to give away as gifts. The background is a modified Nobuko. Instead of 1/3 stitch count, I did a 3/5. I used perle cotton #5 threads for the back ground, the red, green, non-metallic gold, and the border. I plan to make this into a framed picture. Most of the stitches were straight. I used a brick, pavilion diamonds, vertical and horizontal satins. The L is done with Ribbon Floss Shimmer Blend in a diagonal brick stitch.
We can order these canvases with any initial and the color ways are: blue border, green border, and maroon (red) border.
This is a fun canvas to do. The use of metallics and stitches make it a pillow to remember.
This is another canvas that went through Hurricane Katrina. The gold thread in the canvas reacted to whatever was in the water and tarnished the surrounding threads. It created a more intense stained glass effect. All of my framed canvases were under glass and that is what saved them. Anything else, pillows, wall hangings, stand-ups, etc. were covered with a nasty muck, which then proceeded to eat them up. There are beads on this canvas.
This canvas is finished into a kissing ball. This particular canvas went through Hurricane Katrina. After I cleaned it, I sent it back to the finisher and this is the result. This is an ornament by Leigh Designs, the top of the ornament wasn’t stitched.
Georgie, who works with me, finished this outhouse brick. She will be using this as an outhouse. It has a different look than regular bricks.
Every time I do black on black, I swear that this is the last one. The background was done in Sparkle Braid from Rainbow Gallery. It’s a wonder that I can still see. I used another Sparkle Braid for the wings (one color). The shading shows through and I laid a few lines of a metallic silver for his tail and then couched it down in a criss-cross pattern.
These are ornaments for my kids and grandkids. I’ve snuck one in for my husband. It will have a moose stuffer in it. There is a long story about moose and my husband. On one of our trips out west to see relatives, he thought he saw a moose. It turned out to be a black-faced sheep. Needless to say, I won’t let it die. And if you think that’s bad, my brother-in-law a few years later thought he saw 3 bears next to a highway in Nevada and they turned out to be black-faced sheep. What is it about the men my sister and I picked?
One of our stitchers did this set of stand-up Nativity figures. She left the background open and the finisher put gold lame behind the canvas. It’s a wonderful effect.
Georgie did this canvas for her grandson. It was finished like a picture frame.
Georgie did this tooth fairy pillow for her grandson. Isn’t cute!
This is another one Georgie did for her grandson. Isn’t he lucky!
View of 3-D Halloween house finished.
Here is Star Dust stitched. This is many hours of long and short satin with 1 ply of Splendor, and many hours of beading.
This is a canvas I finished for a friend.
