MOJO STITCHES - COCKATOO CARAVAN CHART

Inspired by the flora and fauna with whom we share our neighbourhoods, this series will travel all over, exploring and celebrating our shared environment as home.

‘Cockatoo Caravan’ celebrates the somewhat chaotic presence of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos in the neighbourhood. When Joanna was tiny and heard their raucous calls, her dad would always say ‘It’s the pterodactyls!’ – they sound exactly like how you’d imagine dinosaurs would sound! Here, they are demolishing some Bunya Pine cones – fallen from the giant trees, under which a holiday caravan perches.

This design has a stitch count of 57w x 58h and uses full crosses over two, and a few long backstitches. The model uses one strand of floss over two threads of linen. It is suitable for beginners to advanced stitchers, and can be stitched on linen, Aida or evenweave of any count that you prefer.

Model stitched on 32-count ‘Platinum’ by Zweigart, using Cottage Garden Threads hand dyed variegated 6 stranded cotton threads. It's finished into a little pin-pillow, but it would look equally lovely framed.

If you want the thread pack as well, it includes 5m each of:

• JK05 Woodstack
• JK08 Gilt
• JK10 Woolf
• JK14 Wingback
• JK27 Nib
  
• JK31 Treasure
  
• FJ08 Song