Are your elephants a Nancy Chong design? I love her work with Mother Nature. I even watched a video of her work, bought the blunt nose scissors, etc, but have not gone beyond that except to dream of her work. One of the women in the local 4H Master Quilters adapted the designs to her own ideas with excellent results. I believe she used the designs as two color stencils. Not everyone is able to settle down to do that much needleturn stitching. One of the shops in Centralia/Chehalis, WA featured Nancy Chong classes.