mission accomplished...

Once the boys and Lynn packed up and headed out to the monster truck rally (which was a huge hit, by the way) at noon I set to work on my project(s).

First up is the finished project I made from this sketch:



I printed the image on treated muslin without the black lines. Serendipity stepped in again and now I have discovered a way to make faux batik fabric if I ever want or need to:



My next step was to back the image with cotton batting for some smoosh factor. Then I machine stitched all the little lines of the original drawing. Back and front shots:



And here is the piece, temporarily framed:



I need to stitch around the irises of the critters...as it stands, they sort of look like fish eyeballs. Not so rosey a valentine if you ask me. "Happy Valentine's Day! I bought you an animal portrait...it's really cute, except for the fish eyes."