Here’s one side of Janet Granger’s adorable elephant tea cozy (teacosy). Stitched on 32-count silk gauze with Anchor stranded cotton, it will be 1.5 x 1.125 inches (4 x 3 cm) when finished. If I do (someday) make one on 49-count, at 49 x 36 stitches it would be… like an inch wide by less than that tall. Might be just too much cuteness packed into that small of a space.
And the deadlines, how brightly they burn!
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You do amazing stitch work.
Bennie, thank you! The real talent is the designer, for concept, optimizing sketches for needlepoint, and choosing colorways. Good stitching just means not being in a hurry :)
It’s awesome to see the actual kit, pictures on Janet’s site don’t do them justice. I was eyeing the different tea cozy kits but I settled on 2 pillows. Might have to look again at the tea cozy section!
Her stuff is so well thought out and documented! I want to do the ginger cat next, maybe as pillows :D
Adorable is right :)
Who knew, right? We all get squizzy around creatures — squirrels, lynx, meerkats, goats — but Janet Granger’s elephant is really a sublime design.