Love: Petri dish embroidery

Stitched by cornflowerbluestudio

Elegant and not germy at all. :) I've long loved Rachel's beautiful sea-themed creations. Read more about the pieces on her blog. Beautiful work, Rachel!

Perfectly fishy

For me, originally uploaded by wendalene.

This is really cute, don't you think?

But even more than that it's a great example of the effect you can get with just a couple of different stitches.

Love it!

Patterns: Mommy & Baby Whale

I just had to stitch Badbird's free September pattern this month, it's so cute (and as mum to a boy I love anything that's more boyish). I think this would look great on a swim bag or a towel or just in a hoop hung up in a bathroom. You can find the pattern here, thank you Badbird!

What a blowhole

Normally, I only post hand stitched stuff (because I'm weird like that), but for this whale fella I had to make an exception. Isn't it awesome?

By squishythings in the FS Flickr group.

Dudes, if you're stitching whales, add them to the group. Or start stitching whales and then add them to the group. :-)

Excellent narwhal

Untitled, originally uploaded by Endofmarch.

Ack! How awesome is this??

Absolutely delightfully quirky. Love it!

I love embroidered whales and similar creatures . If you've got 'em, please share them in the Feeling Stitchy group and tag them with 'whale', so I can show more of them!

Stitchy diver

Scuba man, originally uploaded by TheWayThingsWere.

Did you hear that loud noise? Yeah, sorry about that, it was me falling off my chair when I saw this. *thus* Ouch.

How amazing is this? I absolutely love everything about it. From the delicate looking stitches to the unusual subject; an old-timey diver and a girl...

Mendocino mermaid

Stitched by comfortstitching

Just had to tune in with this gorgeous, ghostly mermaid by comfortstitching, based on a Heather Ross fabric. Read more about the project on her blog.