This canvas is one I discovered at The Scarlet Thread during their closing sale last summer. I didn't even know this counted thread shop carried painted canvases until almost The End, but luckily, the owner had this one on display at the checkout counter and it came home with me.
It took me a while to identify the designer as the English firm Kirk & Hamilton. They have a nice website and I've also found some images of their painted canvases plus a few silk screened canvases on a British online site.
http://www.kirkandhamilton.com/
http://www.tapestry-kits.com/kirk+hamilton_handpainted_tapestry_canvas_1.htm
http://www.tapestry-kits.com/kirk+hamilton_handpainted_tapestry_canvas_2.htm
http://www.tapestry-kits.com/kirk+hamilton_printed_tapestry_kits_1.htm
As you can see, there are similar cat themed canvases now available but they aren't on the website yet.
http://needleworkshow.com/cgi-bin/incentive_detail.pl?516-cai114-20
Here are the details about my Candy Cane Dog canvas, which is about 5 1/2 inches high and almost 3 1/2 inches wide at the base. It is on 18 count canvas. I didn't realize he was a beagle, but I am pleased that the designers intended the candy cane dog to be a beagle as my husband had a beagle when he was small. Stories about Elmer and his antics have enlivened family gatherings since we married.
http://www.kirkandhamilton.com/designs/kh74.htm
By the way, Old World Designs has a Kirk & Hamilton trunk show starting Monday, March 1st, if you want to pick up one of their canvases and stitch along with me.
http://www.oldworlddesigns.com/trunkshow.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
Archived Yahoo 360 postings at http://profiles.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
8 comments:
Hi Jane,
I met the men from Kirk & Hamilton at the Columbus TNNA Market, and saw them again at the Long Beach TNNA Market. Their canvas designs are refreshing. Of course, hearing their British accents was dreamy, too.
I own a K&H Halloween piece... a Black Cat holding a Pumpkin/Jack O Lantern Balloon, floating about the cityscape.
Dare I stitch along with Jane?
Permission to stitch along, oh grand enabler.
Thanks, Robin
Lucky Robin! I always wish I could talk to the designers of my canvases and tell them how much fun they've brought me!
Of course you can stitch along. Silly Robin. Yank out your cat and we'll work on these pieces together. It's always more fun to have a stitching partner....
Jane
I am looking for your posts on the 5 Japanese ladies walling away from the viewer. I think I saw the canvas and wanted to see your notes not stitching it.
Jamie
jcreft@comcast.net
Cute canvas Jane! Will be fun to watch. Oh, I fed your fish today and nearly lost a finger! I don't think they've been fed lately. :)
Madonna, I'm glad you like the candy cane dog and are having fun with the virtual fish.
He is just so cute! This will be fun to watch!
Jamie, I'm emailing you about the geishas shortly.
Ok, Jamie, below is what I just emailed you. You will have to copy/paste the URLs as Comments don't allow
active links.
Jamie, the canvas you are talking about was on my previous blog. Yahoo stopped supporting blogs over a year ago and I moved to Blogger which is where Blog is currently hosted. However, Yahoo did not allow transfers of Yahoo blogs to the Blogger format. To read over the stitching information about the five geishas and the single geisha canvas from Anne Jerlow, you will have to go to my archived blog and manually go through it.
Unfortunately, this is not easy. The archived blog material cannot be searched. You have to go to the last entries and manually go back page by page and since the geishas were stitched several years ago, there is a lot of material to page through.
I found what I think is the end point of the discussion. Work backwards from here. I worked on the two Anne Jerlow canvases for quite a long time, over six months I think, so there is a lot of material to read with many other things mixed in.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/46NM4K4CWRILKCTOH75LHKGKBQ?eid=82vZ..4ykHqP0wPhMvRz4tRGbUtZuq24RnVd46imzqVkIFfzow
I suggest you bookmark this page and work back as you have time. Yahoo doesn't like one to go through too many pages at a time, so just read a few at a time and bookmark where you stopped so you can pick up at the right place the next time. I'm sorry it isn't any easier but Yahoo completely abandoned blogs and would not allow me to move them into anything but Wordpress templates and when I tried to put my blog material there, I got error messages because my blog had too much data. Wordpress has limits on what it will allow. So I had to leave this information here for folks like you who want to read it.
I'm sorry that it is not going to be easy! But I am glad you remembered the geisha set and are curious about them. The canvases are available again from Tapestry Fair and you can see them and similar outlined designs on their website.
http://www.tapestryfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=1
Hope this helps.
Jane, waving from Chilly Hollow
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