Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Two Pet Guardian Angels Are Finished


Now that the glue has finally dried on the parts of my pet guardian angels, I am starting to assemble them. My goal is to finish one a night until all six are made up as ornaments and ready to head off to the ANG Auction at their Milwaukee Seminar this fall. I'm putting them together in the order in which they were published so I'll show them off in the same order. Above is the Medieval Cat whose lovely patterned skirt is just as lovely as when I stitched it last November and whose green eye and head shape I love above all the others, except maybe the rabbit's.

The Renasissance Rat is next--I added whiskers to her little face before I made her up. I love her braided halo and the red wings but the best part of this angel is the bargello pattern on her skirt and the flying ends of her Kreink braid belt.



The back side of each angel is black felt. Here's the Medieval Cat from the back.

I wrote up instructions on how to assemble the angels as I went through making the Medieval Cat into an ornament. I took more photographs and edited my instructions as I worked through the Renaissance Rat. After I finish the editing I'll check the instructions against tonight's angel, the Tudor Dog. My goal is to have a complete set of instructions ready to send out this week to all the other pet guardian angel stitchers so we can make up our angels and get them all to me by the last week in June. Tight deadline but these are pretty easy to do. I think it takes me about 4-5 hours per angel and that's only because I am doing six and making a lot of trim for the edges.

Stay tuned for more angels.

Jane/Chilly Hollow
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2 comments:

NCPat said...

Wow! These look wonderful! I can't wait to get them finished!! Making a note to check for black felt!

The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...

Thanks, Pat. Any color of felt will do since it's not seen on the front. I wouldn't use white or ivory, but any color that looks good with your angel is fine. I just got black because it looked best with all 6 of my angels regardless of their various color schemes.