My cat Trixy

[stephyw2001]

My most recent crocheted piece. This is a portrait of my cat Trixy. The photograph I used is next to the finished piece. I will build a simple wood frame, wrap this piece around and staple it to the back I think. I'll first crochet a black border around it so on the edges, it just is plain black and none of her portrait gets stretched over the edge.

What do you all think? :-) I'm having fun doing crocheted portraits.

[starrley]

Oh my goodness! I didn't even know this was possible with crochet! I can't imagine changing all those colors. This is really amazing.

[RMDC]

Yeah, I'm stunned. This is excellent!

[qu33nofspades]

Oh, wow! I've been crocheting for fifteen years and I had no idea this was possible. It looks great! Can't wait to see it finished and framed.

[stephyw2001]

Thank you everyone!
I've been super busy lately, I just finally closed on my first home on 4/30/2013! I will be framing this tonight though, and as soon as I get pictures of it framed I will post them. I think I will enter this piece into an art competition which is coming up this month. Wish me luck! :-D

Steph

[arkani]

This is *so* cool! did you chart it out, or go freehand?

[monkeypeaches]

OMG! It's glorious! I didn't even know you could make patterns like this with crochet. Makes my meager crocheted scarves seem like the work of a baboon! Did you chart this out? It seems like maybe you could do 1 single crochet stitch = 1 pixel?

[stephyw2001]

Hi Arkani and Monkeypeaches,
Yes I do chart these out, it would be soooo hard to do without a pattern! I use graph paper and 1 square = 1 single crochet.

This piece was accepted into the Grand Valley Artists, Inc Spring show! So it is currently hanging on the wall there among other art. Pretty cool! I have a Siberian Tiger piece that I entered into a different show, but it was rejected. I'm currently trying to get it into ArtPrize in Grand Rapids though. :-) We will see if someone wants to host it! Its such great fun! I'll make a new post with my Siberian Tiger art.

Thanks everyone!

[monkeypeaches]

Whoa, I just realized you live in caledonia! I'm in Grand Rapids, so hopefully I'll see your tiger at art prize! Small world!

[stephyw2001]

Oh awesome Monkeypeaches! I didn't realize you were in GR! Very cool. If you ever want to get together for coffee there are tons of places around! I love Biggby and meeting new people with similar interests.

Did you know that LowellArts is doing a yarn-bomb event? I adopted a tree already! If you crochet or knit you should totally do it with me! It will be good fun!

http://www.lowellartscouncil.org/Defaul ... Id=1582338

There's the link to the event. Mine is that last tree Yeah fun!