Cat Portrait Stamps

I started my self-taught embroidery class again since I bought several pieces of polyester felt in July. The so-called self-learning lesson is in fact, a continuous try & error process with progressive improvement to realize my own ideas. Here are the cats I create by hand embroidery, from no.1 to 8~
自從七月時買了幾塊不織布開始，我憑著中學家政課學過的針法開始自學刺繡。所謂自學，都是不斷 TRY & ERROR，然後不斷改良出適合自己的方法，來實現自己的構思。

 
no 1. Unfortunately its eyes are too wide apart, turning it into a hamster.  
我開始做第1隻貓，可惜眼距太闊，形狀不齊，變了倉鼠。 

no2.  A cute fatty black and white, well done! I was happy overhead and brought myself a disaster..
第2隻黑白肥貓，做得好有神韻，以為自己成功了，滿心歡喜做第3隻黑貓。

no.3  Came over the 3 times of failure making a dead black cat, the final cat has a pair of beautiful eyes but a most unlikely accident happened to the cat mouth.
結果連錯3次，隻隻都像死貓，到最後一隻眼睛做得美，一輕率起來就做錯最不可能出事的貓嘴。

 
no4. Myself cut it into a mice, very carelessly.

有點不服氣地做第4隻花貓，今次我每一針都非常專注了，嘗試在貓眼下功夫，本來做得好好的，忽然又看它的臉不順眼，一剪，就剪出一隻老鼠來。

Feeling I am wasting my time to too big project, the 5th cat, I sewed every needle accurate and paid full attention to every thread color and thickness. It finally came out a weird tiger with its overbold eyelines.
這時候我有點覺得自己浪費時間，水平不夠。到第5隻貓，每一針都要準, 線的粗幼顏色都計算好，做出來終於像貓了，可是眼線太粗，變了一隻勁CHOK的老虎。

In that moment I asked myself:"Am I thinking too big?"
Came to the 6th jump,  Fatty yellow appeared at this time! Cute Fatty Yellow he is, I finally know the secret of this job and kept trying the 7th and the 8th cats...
究竟是不是太大想頭? 我不知道。來到第6跳，肥黃就在這時候出現了! 做好肥黃後，我終於知道這作業的秘訣是什麼，來到第7隻、第8隻又繼續試。

Every little cats here are illustrated from a photo album of the stray cats, and I hope you love this rugged beauty.
這些肖像郵票的主角都是我參考一本流浪貓影集的貓相做的，希望大家喜歡它們的粗獷美。