Panda Bear Embroidery Project - Part Two

I finished all the embroidery on the panda bear project.  You may remember this from part one - which you can read about {here}. 

This was a really enjoyable project and I love the color palette.

The stitches used are Long and Short Stitch for the panda's face, and rows of Back Stitch form his ears and eyes.  The face is done with 4 strands of cotton floss and the ears and eyes in perle cotton floss. His nose is Straight Stitch and his mouth is Back Stitch.  These were done with perle cotton floss.  The bamboo is outlined with Stem Stitch and filled with Straight Stitch.  The bamboo is all stitched with perle cotton floss.  For the flowers and leaves, I used Straight Stitch in perle cotton.   All of the French Knots are formed using six strands of cotton floss.

Panda Bear Embroidery Project - Part One

I have a new work in progress to share.  A panda in a bamboo frame decorated with flowers!  This motif is from my Panda embroidery pattern set.

Isn't this color variation floss perfect for the bamboo?
This is perle cotton floss, DMC number 92.

Number 92 is just one of the beautiful colors I recently bought. Here are some others - the skeins with red labels are some of the new colors DMC has released.  I love them all!!

I will be back with a stitching update as I make more progress on this project.

Panda Embroidery Pattern

Panda is the name and subject of the new embroidery pattern set in my Etsy shop. 


If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen a screen shot of this pattern set while it was still in the drawing phase.

Now here is a look at the completed pattern set:

I really enjoyed embroidering these two little friends:

and now I have a few new projects to start: