An embroidered story book

 

 

 

 

Finally managed to finish my latest embroidered book, The Elephant's Child, based on a favourite story from my childhood - written by Rudyard Kipling. I wanted to enter it into the West Midlands Embroiderers' Guild Regional Day competition - "A Story in Stitch". It was finished with just hours to spare! Managed to use up quite a lot of my dyed fabric and thread.

 

It tells of a time when elephants had only short, stubby noses. One small elephant, The Elephant's Child, was full of "satiable curtiosity" (he asked ever so many questions).

 

All the animals were tired of his questions and spanked him for his curiosity.

Then one day he asked "What does the Crocodile have for dinner?"

He was sent by Kolakola bird to the banks of the Limpopo River to find out.

There he met the Bi-coloured Python Rock Snake and finally, the Crocodile, who decided to try Elephant's Child for his dinner and grabbed the elephant's nose and pulled and pulled  until it became a long trunk. Fortunately the Elephant's Child escaped, but his nose remained a long trunk. He soon discovered that it could be quite useful!

And that is how the elephant got his long trunk.