Autumn Fairytale Mouse

A late autumn scene: a mouse bundled up in coat and scarf, woolly hat pulled down over its ears, watching a little robin fly past among toadstools and bare twigs. The palette is soft, with many shades of grey, sage green and pink, so the finished piece looks like a page from a children's book.

The kit has everything you need to stitch it except a hoop or frame and the picture frame, which you buy separately. It is worked in counted cross stitch from the colour chart, usually with two strands of stranded cotton on 16 ct Aida; details such as the whiskers are added in backstitch. Once finished it makes a small framed picture or a cushion front.