Embroidery is something I've recently discovered again, this little hoop is something I've been working on for a short while inbetween my crocheting pursuits.
I once went through a phase of creating small pictures of boats using scraps of fabrics, buttons and thread. They were simple but quite sweet.
I had planned to keep this hoop composition quite restrained, but decided it needed a fancy border to frame the elephant in his rainy garden.
So far i've used mix of tana lawn liberty prints, felt, embroidery thread and appletons crewel wool. I discovered the crewel wool at a local craft shop and fell in love with the colours. I like the contrast of the different threads, the super silky embroidery thread and matt, muted colour crewel wools. I'm thinking about adding some butons to the picture too, but haven't decided yet...