Here’s part of a comment I just received from my friend, Bunny, at When Life Hands You Scraps: “about the wood grain on the door, you’re right, it does look busy but I think that is because the house is so plain other than the door, windows and roof. Maybe some light horizontal lines across…
The “I” block in the ABC Coloring Book is a giant ice cream cone. I just wasn’t interested in stitching it since it has so little detail. Fortunately, I have two other coloring books illustrated by Vincent and Dorothy Fago and one of them has a cute drawing of an ice cream vendor with a…
My Paint Book Samuel Lowe Company, 1941 Uncredited Illustrator
This was a pretty straightforward block that was quick and had a nice fill pattern for the letters. I like this variegated floss — the colors are perfect for a giraffe. I just couldn’t bring myself to make yellow grass, so I bent my self-enforced rules again and used a different color floss for the…
This is a DMC variegated thread and it’s very subtle — sort of a red, fuchsia, pink and orange, but it’s difficult to see in the photograph. Since the fireman drawing doesn’t have anything obvious to use as a fill for the letters, I decided to draw some flames. There are a couple of other…