The Crewel Rooster is one of the step-by-step embroidery projects available on Needle ‘n Thread.

He was an experiment in combining various types of wool threads and various stitches, using whatever happened to be available, wool-wise, in my stash.

Since I’ve had lots of questions about the Crewel Rooster since he was born, I wasn’t surprised to receive a few contributions from readers in which he was featured.

The surprising thing is that all the rooster contributions arrived in my email on the same day, within a couple hours of each other! I’ve since proclaimed a National Rooster Day.

Each rooster below represents a completely different approach to the same embroidery design, so I think it’ll be fun to see them all on one page, demonstrating that an embroidery design can always be personalized with your own thread and stitch choices.