A herd of elephants

My new sewing buddy, Mary Clare, came over this morning and we collaborated on a baby quilt for a colleague. We'd agreed beforehand to embroider elephants on bleached muslin using a cadet-bluish color with a little splash of other colors here and there. Today we framed the five embroidered (plus four simpler) squares with red prints.














One of Mary Clare's elephants (I wish you could see her perfect, tiny stitches here!)...














And one of mine--with, I just noticed--quite a bit of "disappearing" ink remaining...














That last one was a free pattern from Andrea Zuill.