Originally Posted by Ninnie
Sunyhope, it just looks like embroidery to me. What is the difference?
I agree with Ninnie, it looks as if embroidery stitches have been used, i.e. stem stitch, lazy daisy stitch, chain stitch. A good book on general embroidery stitches would help you, then you can choose which stitch to do where, and just follow the lines. As for the design, this one is what I would describe as perhaps naive, but you could embroider any design with simple shapes, in the same manner. Children's colouring books are quite a good source for the animals you mentioned. You can buy templates for heart shapes for the Love ones. Perhaps a library might be able to help you with some of the other ideas you mentioned. I hope that helps.