Book excerpt: Mix and match motifs, borders, and alphabets to create your own unique cross-stitch projects. Among these 500 full-color chatted designs are beautiful garden blooms, delicate wildflowers, and a menagerie of animals, including insects, birds, sea creatures, circus friends, jungle and forest denizens, and even dinosaurs and unicorn. There are images to suit every taste and occasion. Guidance is given in planning your project, choosing equipment and materials, stitching techniques, and presenting the finished work. Throughout, the collection suggests different ways to use particular designs. Embellish clothing, towels, or table linens. Stitch exquisite samplers, greeting cards, and bookmarks. Make unique and wonderful gifts, inducting a gardener's apron, curtain tiebacks, cushions, jam-jar covets, and trinket boxes. With so many Fantastic flower and animal designs to choose from, there's no limit to what you can do!