Cross-Stitching

So as not to offend any chimp lovers or cross-stitchers, with the statement I made yesterday.  I thought I might post a few pictures of some of the work that I've done:

When I first started cross-stitching I was 26ish and a new mother.  I made a pillow for L, with his initials.  This is, of course, only part of the pillow.  He still keeps it in his bed every night, which account for some of the discoloration and missing whiskers:



I was still on a little bit of a Beatrix Potter kick when I made this pillow as well:

Then I started my first BIG project.  With complicated charts and hard to manage floss:

Here is a close-up of the same piece:

When H was born, I felt that I had to go back to a Beatrix Potter image for his pillow:

In what would turn into a 3-year project, because of international moves and life, I completed my most complicated project to date.  This even has beading....



Many of my projects since then, I've given away as gifts.  This is the latest piece that I've kept:

I may have overstated the simplicity of cross-stitching...