And here's the framed version! My nephew was born on the 8th February. His name is Zac :)
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Whew! It took me nearly two months, but I finally finished this tapestry! It will be for my niece/nephew (gender unknown) who is due to be born on 9th February.

My sister helped my pick the pattern for this and I think it's also appropriately gender neutral. My father has also made a rocking horse so everyone kind of thinks we have a theme going :P.

By the way, I decided I wanted to name this Zebra, but the only name I currently have is 'Zebby' (or Zebi) and I'm not really happy with it, so suggestions would be great.

I'm going to post up the framed piece when I have it done as well as some in progress images when I get arround to collating them.

As per usual the vertical edges have really curled in because of the stitch. A trick I do to prevent fraying is to take 4 threads out from the sides and fold over the edges and running stitch them over like a hem. They still fray a bit, but much much less. You can see the creases from where I unfolded it. :)

The colours as usual are quite a bit brighter in reality.

Needlepoint stitch

15cm x 15cm