The Ungalled Hart

  Looking through my collection of digitized illuminated manuscripts, I’ve come across numerous variations of the red dragon, known as the devil or Satan, from Revelation 12. One medieval depiction caught my eye, as it featured the dragon surrounded by red stars—a reference to verse 4, where the dragon's tail sweeps down a third of the stars from heaven and casts them to the earth. This, of course, referring to Lucifer's fall from heaven and taking a third of the angels with him. I liked the image, and I was curious if I could capture all the little details in a cross stitch design. Well I'm proud to say my latest cross-stitch creation , an exact and meticulous replica of Revelations' red dragon, was a resounding success. I’d like to upload the original illuminated manuscript for comparison but I’m concerned it may violate someone’s copyright. While the manuscripts themselves are ancient and in the public domain, the photographs or images of these manuscripts can still ...

Finally! After an unfortunate delay (dental emergency) my book curse cross stitch is finished. I’m very happy with how well it turned out. When the fabric is pinned the words line up so neatly and it looks absolutely perfect. I can’t wait to frame it. I only wish I had a camera that could capture how well the gold sparkles in the light. Right now I'm using an ancient camera phone which is not ideal. I’ll try to take some better photos later but for now I’ve made the pattern available in my Etsy shop . Onward and forward to the next project!

All morning I've been test-stitching these little guys and finished around noon. I thought it turned out really cute so I've uploaded the pattern to my Etsy Shop . I combined different rabbits found on various Illuminated Manuscripts so it looks like they are marching off to war. Ready to move on and test stitch my next pattern a book curse! Spooky!

I just finished test-stitching my tiniest pattern and put it up in my Etsy shop . It's a winged pig inspired by one found in a real Illuminated Manuscript. My goal was to make him as tiny and cute as possible. I think I nailed it!