Swedish Embroidery

This is the throw my mom made for me. The artform is Swedish Embroidery; it's embroidered with varigated yarn on monk's cloth.

That's a black bear hide on the wall behind it. Most of my house is decorated in dead animals. We have moose racks, deer heads, caribou head & shoulder mount, and a goat, all in the living room. There's a couple more moose racks in the bedroom.

If you are interested in learning to do this yourself check out nettiesneedleworks.com or google Swedish Embroidery, I found several sites.















Here's a close-up of the embroidery. Now, my sisters will disagree, but since I'm mom's favorite, she did especially careful work. It's very beautiful and I love it very much. Thank you Mommy!

She has made one of these for each of the grandkids. I can't remember what color Katie's is but I would guess blue or green. Travis' is red on black and was very striking.