It was the Forget Me Not season, a soft low cloud of delicate, soft blue, Forget Me Not (Myosotis) flowers had been left to grow wild where they always do every year, spreading a little more each year as their seeds strayed out of the flower beds into the gravel. The early morning dew gave the first rays of sunlight a chance to sparkle across the damp leaves and petals.
A flower named for rememberance, for love and loyalty, gave me a suitable name for this little elephant, being covered in flowers and sweetness. With Forget Me Not blue around the face, roses on the forehead, mayflowers, like pajama pants, leaves and vines down the trunk and honeycomb patterning the ears, 'Foggy Forget Me Not' would make a lovely gift.
This pattern uses several grounds, all worked in curved spaces so pairs will need to be added and taken out as needed. I often advise printing out a large version and using different colour pens to see where the threads will work out best. The face and trunk are made first. The ears are started from the top of the head, working outward to the sides.
Work the leg with any pairs to be thrown out towards the outside edge where they can be taken into the edge trail. The second leg is made with the ground pairs sewn to the edge of the trunk, sorted into fours and plaited to lay on top of the trunk, sewn to the lower edge of the trunk where they revert to being ground pairs to finish the leg. You could also just continue the ground, working over the trunk and sew at each side of the trunk, or even make the trunk last, sewing it to the trail edges as you progress.
Of course, there are many ways to make this piece, I give you the way I made it. The amount of pairs needed will depend on how you work the sections, unfortunately I neglected to count the pairs as I was adding and removing throughout. I guess at about 60 to 70 pairs, maybe more if you work the legs/trunk at the same time.
The thread used for this is a single perle 8 thread paired with a single standard thread to give the blue line to the trail. If I made this again, I would be tempted to add more colour, but the adding and throwing out means the order of the trail pairs often change and the colours can get moved side to side within the trails.
A two pair edge is used throughout to allow for sewings, if you wish, you could make 3 or 4 little tallies along the trail at the bottom of the feet to look like little toes.
'Remember me, for without your memories, I am gone'.
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