Is it a Skull or Something Else?

One of our customers was looking for an artwork by Charles Allan Gilbert entitled All is Vanity so I went searching for an image for this. When I found it, I first thought, "A skull?" now why would anyone want to stitch a skull? then I looked closer and saw the cleverness of this artwork. When the picture was blown up, you see a lady looking into the mirror! Well that would make a nice conversation piece won't it? Imagine your friends seeing the piece from afar then coming closer to see that it is not really what they first thought it was!

Here is the finished cross stitch pattern. Look at it from afar then up close.




















The project uses only full stitches, 21 DMC floss and the finished size in a 14 aida is 11" x 14".

The cross stitch chart is available here.