This text contains advice on cross stitch techniques, instructions for simple needlecraft projects to be decorated with the designs and over 60 motifs and pictures, including historical animals, farm and woodland animals, birds, butterflies and fish. There is a detailed chart for each design, a thread key and a colour photograph of the finished item. Jana Hauschild Lindberg has also written Making Gifts in Counted Cross Stitch (1990) and Flowers in Cross Stitch (1992).