More animals on the planet

Because polar bear taming is a hard job to do I found myself at a library. There's so many books and few of them are treasures. I found excellent cross stitch book which I want to share with you. It is Picture Your Pet in Cross Stitch by Claire Crompton. It includes incredible over 400 animal potraits and motifs. And believe me, these ones are not crap. The designs are so lively and animals look natural. Only few legs or positions are weird but really only few of these over 400! You rarely find treasures of animal designs like this. Especially if you seek something so common but rare like guineapig designs!

I have stitched again one more bookmark.This bookmark is made by using Agnes Delage-Calvet, Anne Sohier-Fournel, Muriel Brunet and Francoise Ritz chart from their book Made in France. Some variegated shade would look pretty too on the seahorse.

 

This is my own design. It is a credit card holder for a special friend. I used loose end materials from Granny's old tapestry project.

Taming a polar bear

I have been so busy with taming a polar bear that I am almost ashamed of not to update this blog in a month! I must tell you the polar bear don't want to learn to sit and it is very unwilling to cooperate with me. But I am doing all my best and at least I have been able to catch the shape of it already. Later on, hopefully at the end of August I will share the polar bear with you.

But, before starting this polar bear taming, I did two smaller projets which pictures you can see at Stitching site. At the moment they both are at the exhibition with some other designs of mine. In four weeks I will get them all back home.

This "My English Garden" is my own design -inspired by a holiday in UK. It includes variegated DMC threads. I have used double running stitches, back stitches, French knots and one blue bead. To be honest I am not sure yet what this project will be. Will it turn out to be a seed bag for my gardening purposes or something else...

This is my own design. It is tiny hardanger project. I just wanted to see how metallic threads will turn out with hardanger embroidery. It was very interesting to stitch this work. I courage everyone to try it out! A bit complicated but able to be done. :)