I'm excited to tell you that Erin over at Bluebird Baby is doing a give-away of one of my sewn mushrooms. Go check it out, and enjoy her lovely blog while you are there. Thank you so much, Erin!
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I'm glad so many of you enjoyed seeing those beautiful Eskimo prints that I posted about yesterday. I wanted to show you how I ended up framing the paper cut I had made based on one of the prints in the book. I think it looks much better on the black paper than it did on the green.
You can also see my new black bear there checking out the print, as if he is visiting an art gallery. I made the pattern based on the print of the polar bear above. That print is a stone cut by Lucy of Baffin Island. The author says of Lucy, "Lucy is a woman, an observer, not a hunter of polar bears. Her bear is strong, thin headed, well fed, well understood, with big splayed feet to carry it over the thin ice. It seems to wait, full of indecision, and sniff the air so full of human scent. The fur of the bear is indicated with precise and loving care, for Lucy thinks of the bear as a sleeping skin." I am going to make this pattern again, but with white wool for a polar bear.