I can has cheezburger embroidery?

Yes. Yes, you can has:



Yay! it's done! The Happycat pillow, featuring THE iconic LOLcats phrase.

I'm very happy with it. (That photo is without flash, and may be a little dark. Here is a brighter one:)



You can see the colors a bit better in that one.

Some specs: the cat head was a vintage embroidery pattern from "Rectangel's" photostream. (No idea if it's still there or if it was one of the ones purged because of copyright concerns). Script is my own handwriting, done with considerably more care than I usually do. Standard DMC floss in a couple shades of dark grey, black, a mustard color for the eyes, a greyish-pink for the ear, nose, and mouth, and a bright pink for the writing.

The fabric (here is a better shot from the back):



is a 1930s reproduction in colors that went well with the design. (The flower-centers are mustard yellow like the cat's eyes, and one of the pinks in the design is close to the color of the writing).

I'm really pleased with it. It makes me laugh, and yet at the same time it does have that odd frisson that some "vintage" items have. It's like some kind of time portal opened up and the LOLcats of today got mashed-up with the cartoon characters of yesteryear.

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that at least some of the inspiration for this came from the wonderful Laugh Out Loud Cats comic strip, which is a similar idea (1930s mashed up with LOLcats) in a different style.

I do have plans for a companion piece. However, as there are no vintage embroidery transfers of walruses (walrii?) with buckets out there, I'm going to have to draft up my own. I do need to search to see if there's some kind of comic-book-like image of a walrus I can modify. (I do want to 1930s-ize it, by, at the very least, giving the walrus those "pie wedge eyes," like the old Mickey Mouse cartoons had).

That's the next project. (And the last. I think two of these are enough). But I think that as I have a pillow with a cat asking if it can "has" a "cheezburger," I need another pillow with a walrus that is happy because it has its "bukkit."