Raccoon in Red & Copper Octopus you can’t take them home

you can’t take them home as pets

stitched by hand on 8x10 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper

Japanese chiyogami paper in gold diamonds on black stands in for black cotton adorned with a profusion of tiny metallic and black glass beads

Japanese tissue and cotton floss on cotton paper

Raccoon in Red & Copper Octopus you can’t take them homeI couldnt call myself a Torontonian if I didnt have a raccoon in my collection. It was surprisingly difficult to find a historic illustration of a raccoon that looked right, until I found this delightful (if slightly guilty looking) specimen in the 1918 book Wild Animals of North America: Intimate Studies of Big and Little Creatures of the Mammal Kingdom. The raccoon is 4. 75 inches wide, stitched by hand on 5x7 inch 100% cotton watercolour paper,