Originally Posted by
feline fanatic
Amazing!! I like this even better than Eddie the Mule. What is it with people and their mules in your area? Or did word get out? LOL I can see it. Eddie's proud owner showing off your thread portrait to his friends who also have mules they love. Obviously Ben's owner is just as proud of Ben as Eddies owner is of Eddie so you get another thread portrain commission. The cycle begins. Who'da thunk such a niche existed! Fabulous work Wendy. I think once you put the green on it will just pop!
"Who'da thunk" is right! I don't know how many of these I'll do, but people sure do seem to like them. I enjoy doing them too, and like I told my sweet neighbor lady last night, I'll only do them for people and mules I
want to do them for. I'm getting a pretty decent price, but I think it's going to go up a bit after this one so it will be more worth my time. It takes at least a day to do the drawing, a day to stitch the mule head, and another day to stitch the background, and those are 8-10 hour days of hard work. Happy mule owners sure do love their mules and this is something very unique (after all, I'm making them up as I go along). I want to do our 2 mules next fall too. I need to wait until late summer when they are shedded out nicely to get some pictures to work from. I've got more ideas I want to try out too!