Already parents to two adopted sausage dogs, Ouija and Rhubarb, they recently had a baby of their own, Oona. Not wanting to be human-centric (and not having the time to create more than one stencil) I decided to represent each family member with a print of a dachshund.
Each print was then given an individually embroidered dog sweater.
Their new (fictional) family name was cut out of felted wool and stitched onto the tapestry. This process took much longer than I expected, including the entire plane ride from London to Vancouver. I'm not joking. I didn't sleep a wink.
As a process though, I absolutely love it. Embroidery is basically just drawing with thread on fabric. My design went from a fairly cold and flat digital image that looked like this.



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