When designing I often listen to CNN and while working on this angel, they announced that the body of dear little Polly Klaas had been found. It crushed me as I'm sure it did anyone with a heart. I gazed at the white angel and sketched a little girl reaching out to her. I showed the sketch to some people on my staff and they started to cry and said I just had to put the child in the design. I made the child in a simple, flowing nightgown without lace or ruffles. Her little arm reaches towards the angel.



I worked hard on this angel, more than any I have ever done, to make her "perfect". She was not "perfect" until I added the little girl. Originally this angel was to be called the Angel of Peace. After drawing the little girl, I decided to change her name to the Angel of Mercy. I do not know how it feels to lose a child, but I would like to think that this is what happens when a child flies into forever.



This angel can be stitched alone without the child.



Stitched on 32 count.



Stitch count

260 x 257



Design area

16 1/4" x 16 1/8"