The People Chose Cats

Regular followers will be aware that for over 3 years now I have run a themed SAL on the first Saturday of each month.  First we spent 26 months doing The Alphabet Club and then 12 months of the Zodiac.  Now I have decided to listen to the People and post about your choice of theme.  Each month I ask for suggestions on the blog and then make a poll in the IHSW Facebook Group from those suggestions.

October - Cats

November - Autumnal Colours
December - TBA
(I put the poll up late so I am letting it run another week)

I have really been looking forward to this one.  I am definitely a cat-person, we owned both dogs and cats when I was little but since I was five it has always been cats (and small rodents).  We do not currently have a cat but our garden is shared territory for a number of neighbouring cats so there is always one to see.  I tried to grow my own one year, quite successfully as you can see:

The third piece I stitched was a row of cats.  I had made two small samplers and was looking around for the next project when I saw this kit:

stitched on 14 count black aida

I love the artwork of Lesley Anne Ivory and the next cat kit I bought was one of her designs:

Margaret Sherry is well-known for her cute cats:

Lynn B from Happiness is Cross Stitch has a huge range of cat freebies, this is just one:

The biggest Cat project I have stitched was in 2013.  There was a cute JBW Alphabet Cat in the Just Cross Stitch Hallowe'en Special which I stitched in black on orange fabric.  Then I hit on the idea of stitching one for each month in seasonal colours.

You may be able to tell that the final three have not been fully finished...  There's a couple of projects for Rachel's FFO Gallery!

Here's the largest single cat project, again on black aida.  I just love the effect of the white fur against the black fabric:

A lot of my Hallowe'en stitching has little black cats in it, so here's one last one from Jaunty Fox:

Now it's over to you. All you have to do is make a post on the theme of Cats, mention The People's Choice SAL (you can copy the picture I used at the top of this post and in my side bar) and my blog. Please link up using the URL of the actual blog post, not the home page of your blog. I look forward to seeing what you all post.

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Finally, I need your suggestions for the next poll.  Any thing, no matter how obscure, weird or random will go into the poll.  Keep the theme suggestions to a single word or two - so you could have Cats, or Blue, or Holidays, or Warmth etc.  Really anything which could be illustrated in cross stitch.

Looking forward to reading them all!