I did this during my India trip on December 2004, completed in 3 weeks, roughly I did one block each day. Got this design from a French book.

My first project of making table cloth encouraged me to take up this project and I also got inspired after seeing Francois’s extraordinary cross stitch works. This I did by using 42 colour threads. I did this in month of October 2004 , which took around 5-6 hrs for 18 days (approx.) to finish . I got the design from a DMC book.

The closeup of the center, a red rose with white china rose