Recipe for a perfect pet portrait:
Ingredients-
Adorable puppy photo:

  

Carol Eaton’s hand-dyed fabrics- solids to match the subject, spectacular confetti-dyed background :

  

Muslin base traced with pup outline:

  
Lots of MistyFuse! Then, after fusing, a litter of Superior Threads’ Magnifico and Twist threads:

  
Load onto long-arm and add lots of stitching:

  
Yup, LOTS of stitching…

  
Don’t forget some white ink to add highlights to eyes:

  
Finished! And photo-bombed by a friend ;)….