The Cat Portrait (WIP #4)

It’s been quite a while since my last update! It’s been hard to find the time for this project once the sun went away and stopped drawing me outside!

We’ve had prep to do for our new bathroom (only 2 weeks now!), visits to family, I’ve got into more book blogging and I bought Horizon Forbidden West on PS5! That’s a lot of things competing for my limited free time. 😅

I did do some work on it when I was obsessed with watching Say Yes To The Dress the other week, but not a lot! This week though I really wanted to get something done so I squeezed some time last weekend and an evening in the week watching Veronica Mars season 1 and finishing off Valentine’s right ear.

I’m not totally happy with it – but honestly on the reference photo this ear looks weird! – and I’m hoping once the whiskers are overlayed it’ll look better.

Then today I was in a weird mood and feeling drained for a day out socialising yesterday, so I couldn’t focus on playing videogames and I switched to rewatching the Veronica Mars movie and working on Kitler.

I skipped from season 1 to the movie because I just wanted some happy Veronica and Logan times without all the tiring bullshit between in s2-3! And I refuse to watch the season 4 reboot! The movie (and the books) end in a nice enough place to take that as the ending! I really wish they’d written more books instead of literally blowing everything up with S4 (why Rob Thomas, why?!).

Anyway, turns out Kitler presents her own challenges! The white thread shows up the direction of stitches much more meaning I need to be more accurate, and her nose was very tricky.

I never noticed how much her nose stands out until I tried to embroider it! She has loads of tiny fine short hairs on it which makes it appear darker than the rest of her fur.. and that is looking kind of weird right now but I need to Trust The Process.

I hope I can get through some more this week but we’ll see.

Trawling through Amazon Prime video I found an old Canadian sitcom I’d never heard of called Corner Gas. I’ve watched a few episodes of that and I kind of like it’s laid back vibe. The jokes are low hanging fruit and very dated – exactly the kind of thing that Americans might have put a painful laugh track on that destroyed any comedy value, but without it kind of works. Anyway, I’m telling you this because it’s exactly the sort of thing I like to work on embroidery too and it might motivate more progress!