It had been a few months since I updated you on what I was working on in my counted cross stitch projects.

Last fall I told you that all I had left to do on the raccoon was the background. Backgrounds are nice to do in the evening, but a solid background can also be a bit boring. (If you think it doesn’t look like a solid background, it’s because I used the same color thread, but they were from different color lots, creating a rather interesting pattern.)

The actual photo

When I thought I needed a new challenge, while still working on the raccoon’s background, I started working on the photo of a deer that Deb gave me. Notice the actual photo on the bottom right.

Someone always asks me how I get a photo transferred to a stitched project. I send the photo to a company who transfers it to a pattern that I use for stitching. I also chose a solid background for this one over stitching the actual background.

I finished the raccoon at the end of the year and took it to be framed today.