More Green Zebra cross stitch

Not finished with the green zebra yet but progress is being made.

Green Zebra cross stitch

Here is a piece of that baby cross stitch I am working on for a customer. OK can I just say I am not a cutesy type of person and this has been hard for me not skill wise just imagery wise a little too cutesy makes it hard for me to work on it. Below is what it needs to look like when done.

Just noticed two mistakes I will go fix them one is the button color on the hind leg and one is on the face where the stitch went wonky. They will be fixed and gone shortly.

And now I know

I could not wait till it was done I had to go and get it wet to see if knitted cotton would block well I am happy with the results. So looks like it won't need an edging but I may put one on it any way just for practice sake and to pull it all together and to give it a nice edge.

To see the before go to the next post and you will see how wavy and off everything looked.

Cables

Did a few cables on my sampler and a few other stitches too. It is amazing still to me how the same number of stitches can have such a differnt effect on how wide the piece is. Not sure cotton knit blocks well I hope so and I hope that adding a boarder will correct this too to straighten it out. If not I am good with it this way too after all it is just a practice piece. The above middle set of stitches after I did them in the sampler I decided I don't like them. Not pretty to look at, at all to me. So I am glad it is a sample piece and I won't be using that one in a sweater or lace in the near future. Maybe in time I will find a use for it but not at the moment.

Bad light on this last photo but it is a close up of the latest cable.