Back in 1955, Crockett Johnson published Harold and the Purple Crayon, an odd book involving Harold drawing his way through adventures with his trusty purple crayon, with nary a real physical object nor another living creature throughout the book.
Here in 2012, I embroidered an image from the book: Harold in a mostly-drawn hot air balloon. I had the perfect fabric, though it seemed like it would be far too dark, so I bleached it:
I was very pleased the black and yellow did not bleach out as much as the blue did. After stitching, I colored in the moon and one star with gold fabric paint.
