Stitch Cottage

A cottage garden in cross-stitch, with hollyhocks and a cat on the wall

A little cottage garden worked in cross-stitch on linen: every stitch a tiny X of shiny thread, with the weave of the fabric showing round it. Hollyhocks nod by the door, a ginger cat sits on the garden wall swishing its tail, two robins hop along the stones and smoke puffs from the chimney, all changing stitch by stitch like a flip book. It follows your clock: bright by day, warm at dusk, and at night the windows glow and a moon and a few stars are stitched in the sky. Move the mouse and the threads near it catch the light; with music on the hollyhocks nod on the beat.

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