Off in another direction, but first an explanation

First, I would like to welcome the new readers that have joined this blog after Spanky’s kind recommendation. It’s good to have you all here. However I need to clarify some details about the free design offer. On the first week of every month I post the picture of a design that I’m offering free to readers – you just have to drop a comment to the blog asking for that design, and I’ll send it out. But there has been some confusion, with people thinking that ALL the designs on the blog are available free. Unfortunately that’s not true! It’s just the one design that’s posted during the first week of the month. However if you have a suggestion for any of my designs that you’d like to see posted as a freebie, just let me know. Sometimes there’s a reason why I can’t do it, but if possible I’ll try and put it up

So, back to embroidery. I’ve always loved naive and folk art – you can pick up some wonderful ideas from this so-called ‘primitive’ approach to art. After some encouragement from my friend Cherri I’ve been playing around with some ‘primitive’ designs, and in the past few days have come up with two folk arty cats. They’re not really primitive or naive – no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t shake off my usual style. But they’re fun anyway. Here's the first one

Yellow Folk Art Cat

I like this one because it looks like a cat wearing (or made out of) a Fair Isle sweater. It will do very nicely for the spring exhibition at the local gallery. They wanted work with spring-like colours, and I think this fits the bill