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What Happened to the Menorah? Why Are There Myths about the Menorah? Does the Menorah Belong Just to the Jews? What Does the Bible say About the Menorah? Why Was the Menorah Made of Gold? Are the Menorah and the Hanukkah the Same Thing? Does Hanukah Foreshadow the End Times? What Made the Lights of the Menorah Burn? How Was the Menorah Lit? What Is the Light Motif in the Menorah? What Do the Seven Branches Symbolize?

What Is the Shamash Candle in the Menorah? Is the Menorah the Light of Torah? What Are the Two Messianic Seals? Why Is the Menorah the Emblem of Israel? What Is the Light that Isaiah Sees? What Is the Light that John Sees? Is the Menorah in the Master Pattern of Revelation?

Does the Menorah Have a Messianic Message? How Can I make a Menorah? Can I Be a Menorah? Eight Little Candles Poem 1. I had known that even before I left on my study tour of Israel. They have lots of menorahs. I opened the door to a store of Judaic items. One whole wall, from top to bottom, had menorahs.

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I was stunned by so many menorahs. I looked up and down and then down and up. How would I choose? Please, let the one I should buy call out to me. How could a candlestick speak to me? I opened my eyes and on the very top shelf was an unusual menorah. It had the sign of the Messianic Seal on it. Quickly, I motioned to the girl to hand me that menorah. She took a long stick and lifted the menorah down to me. But I knew this was my menorah, and, strange as it may seem, it had called out to me.

But, to me, the Messianic Seal made this menorah more valuable. I quickly made my purchase and left the store. I hugged my menorah to my heart. God has something for me to learn, but what? True or False Quiz: The menorah is an eight-branched candelabrum. Moses designed the menorah. The menorah follows the design of a heavenly pattern. When the menorah is lit, it indicates the Shekinah Glory of God is present. The menorah is made of pure gold. The menorah is probably a pattern of the Tree of Life. The menorah is an illustration of the Triune God. In the menorah, some people see the Jews and the Gentiles connected.

The menorah only burned beeswax candles. You can become a menorah and shine your light in this dark world. What is the Menorah? The menorah is a lampstand. It is a concrete symbol of the Presence of God, who as the Eternal Light brings illumination to a dark world. There are two types of menorah. One is a seven-branched lamp stand. The other menorah is a nine-branched candelabrum used at the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The menorah was the only light to be used in either the Tabernacle or Temple.

The Bible in 1 Samuel 3: And your God for your glory. Rather, it had oil lamps filled with olive oil and wicks. The menorah is an emblem used in worship that was designed by God Himself. Thus, it was the idea of God and follows a heavenly pattern. In fact, God gave very detailed and long instructions about its design. More emphasis is given to its replication that any of the other sanctuary items and Exodus The Bible suggests that even Moses was confused. According to the Midrash, a Jewish book that interprets the Old Testament and fills in the gaps, God told Moses to take a golden block and give to Bezalel, a craftsman, and have him throw it in the fire.

The fire exploded and a menorah came out, made by God Himself. Six branches protruded from the shaft. The shaft and branches all ended with lamps. Although Moses only mentioned one menorah for the Tabernacle, both 1 Kings 7: In fact, both verses said that the First Temple had ten menorahs. Most scholars believe that the Second Temple, which was a renovation of the First Temple, returned back to only one menorah. Regardless of how many menorahs there were, the light of one or as many as ten overcomes the darkness of our sinful world.

The menorah is on one side and the table of the Showbread is on the other. It was found at the archaeological site of Magdala home town of Mary Magdalene in This was used in the Migdal Synagogue, a contemporary synagogue with the Second Temple from Wikipedia A menorah with straight lines, shown in a diagram drawn by Maimonides, a Jewish scholar and Torah scholar who was born in Spain but became the leader of the Jewish community in Egypt to A.

What is the History of the Menorah? God told Moses at Mount Sinai to make a golden seven-branched candelabrum for the Tabernacle and showed him the heavenly pattern. However, Bezalel, a craftsman, was put in charge of making the menorah. King Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem and place ten menorahs in it as written in 1 Kings 7: A source outside of the Bible also states the same; Josephus a first-century Roman- Jewish scholar and historian, who was born in Jerusalem wrote that Solomon made an additional nine menorahs and placed them on either side of the Mosaic Menorah.

Nebuchadnezzar destroys the first Temple on the ninth of Av and the menorah is probably lost. Both 2 Kings The Jews returned and started to rebuild the Temple. Although no mention of the menorahs are made in either Ezra 1: Thus, a new menorah had to be made after the pattern of the first one. There would be only one menorah in the Second Temple.

The Maccabeans, a Jewish family, lead the revolt to retake Jerusalem. They did retake it, made a new menorah out of iron and tin weapons, and their story of reconsecrating the Temple is the basis of Hanukkah, also called the Feast of Lights or Festival of Dedication. This story is told in a following section entitled: Other secondary menorahs were made. Pompey, a Roman leader, after he conquered Jerusalem and killed many priests, saw a single candelabrum in the Temple.

Around 37 to 19 B. The Parthians conquered and ransacked Jerusalem. The menorah was thought to have been damaged and King Herod, a Judean king appointed by Rome, rebuilt the Temple on a massive scale and probably had the menorah repaired. According to the Talmud a text of the Rabbinic Judaism that has the teachings and opinions of thousands of Rabbis , the miracle by which the Westerly Light lamp on the main stem of the menorah remained alight throughout the day stopped. Titus, the Roman Emperor from 79 to 81 C. Everything was put into a net and taken to Rome.

The menorah depicted on the triumphal arch shows the spoils being carried away from Jerusalem by Titus and paraded through the streets of Rome. King Herod probably had the three- legged tripod base of the menorah replaced with a two-step base. He had the Roman motif of eagles, showing subservience to Rome, placed on the new two-step base. Depiction of the menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome.

This arch was built in 82 A. Titus, a Roman general, who plundered Jerusalem, was responsible for taking it and bringing it, as well as many of the Temple treasures, back with him to Rome. It is interesting to note that both the First Temple and the Second Temple were destroyed on the ninth of Av on the Hebrew calendar. The copy of the relief above is carved on the Arch of Titus in Rome in 82 A. It shows the menorah being exhibited as it is carried through the streets of Rome. The masons who carved this probably saw the real menorah taken from Jerusalem, since triumphal arches were considered as records and, thus, required accuracy.

After this, all traces of the menorah vanish. It is known that the spoils taken from the Jewish Temple after the battle and fall of Jerusalem funded the construction of the Coliseum in Rome, which was built from 70 — 80 A. Still others think that the Goths took the menorah at the sacking of Rome, but returned it in A.

He adds that the Emperor Justinian returned the Jewish vessels back to Jerusalem with a warning that bad luck accompanied came to those who seized them. However, Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written in , thinks the menorah is at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, somewhere between Italy and the northern coast of Africa.

Gibbon describes how a barbarian from Carthage took the Temple items and sailed back to Carthage with twelve ships. The ship with the menorah shipwrecked in a storm and all cargo was lost at sea. My belief about the whereabouts of the menorah: He hid them because while he was having the Temple cleaned, a scroll probably Deuteronomy was found which described disasters upon those not obeying the commands of the book.

Upon consulting the prophetess Huldah, Josiah was told that the destruction would not come in his lifetime, but later. The Talmud a text of the Rabbinic Judaism that has the teachings and opinions of thousands of Rabbis , states that the implements were hid under the Temple. Sure enough, the Ark of the Covenant nor the menorah are mentioned in 2 Kings, Chapter 25 or Ezra, Chapter 1 as being taken away to Babylon, but Jeremiah One has to remember that King Solomon had ten menorahs in his Temple.

While I believe that the original menorah was hid, the other menorahs probably remained in the Temple and therefore could have been taken to Babylon. There, they will remain, until God decides to reveal them again. Avram Yehoshua, a Messianic Rabbi from Israel but now traveling in the US, sent me a link to an interesting article that describes how Ron Wyatt claimed to have found and seen both the Ark, the menorah, and other items hidden underneath an area in Jerusalem: One last word on the subject: The Jews have already made these implements.

See the photo of the menorah below, which is on display in Jerusalem. Regardless, if the menorah is still hidden or not, the Third Temple to come will surely have a menorah! People like to be entertained, and news that is titillating is exciting. There is no news factor in stating that we do not know what happened to the menorah or the menorahs. The paragraphs that follow describe events that revolved around the myths of the menorah. Many people believe that the menorah is still in Rome in the Vatican storerooms.

They know that the menorah is carved on the Victory Arch of Titus and that the Jewish historian, Josephus, wrote about seeing the triumphal celebration with the menorah.

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Josephus wrote that the Temple trophies were displayed after the procession and then displayed in the Temple of Peace in Rome. The tradition of the earliest Rabbis in the second century A. In fact, one rabbi even stated he saw the veil covering the Ark of the Covenant. In the thirteenth- century, the Christians affirmed that they had the ark, menorah, and other Temple items.

Now comes the titillating part. It goes like this: It another version, it was an Israeli Moroccan rabbi, and in a third story, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Isaac Herzog, on his way to rescue Jewish children in Europe, visited Pope Pius X11 , who actually showed the rabbi the menorah, but would not return it. Father Leonard Boyle, at one time director of the Vatican Libraries, tells of Jewish tourists, entering the library and asking him if they could visit the storerooms in order to look for the menorah.

Witnesses stated that after this request, there was a tense silence in the room. The reporter also followed up with the University of Florence, but to no avail. As long as people hope and believe that the menorah will someday be returned to Israel, they will continue to ask and search for the Temple relics in Rome.

And, they will also continue to retell the myths about the menorah. Clearly, the menorah is identified as a Jewish symbol. The nation of Israel chose the menorah as its symbol because according to both Isaiah Likewise, most Christians see little meaning in the menorah and generally ignore it. Christian churches still carry on the tradition of the menorah when individual candles are lit in services. In fact, Isaiah Just think of what the seven flames coming from the menorah can do! The menorah is a divine symbol created directly from God and was constructed according to a heavenly pattern.

It is depicted in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. As such, it is both an eternal and universal icon. It is for both Jews and Gentiles. Proudly display it in your home. I think it represents the triune aspects of God. Jewish sages through the centuries have been drawn to the power and exquisiteness of the menorah. It merges the natural with the man- made. Today, the menorah continues to capture the thoughts of people as an enduring symbol of perpetual hope.

For too long, Christian believers have ignored the menorah. Now is the time to consider what the menorah means to us. I believe the menorah is a photograph of God; it is a candelabrum that symbolizes the triune God. I God the Father is the base of the menorah; 2 God the Son is the main branch with His arms supporting the 3 flames, which represent God the Holy Spirit.

As the menorah stands on its base, we place our trust in the foundation of God the Father, our base. In fact, He said He was the light of the world in John 8: The other six branches come out of the Messiah and they represent His attributes. Upon each of the seven branches rests a flame. The Holy Spirit has seven characteristics.

The flame in the middle or central lamp is the Spirit of the Lord or Elohim, with the other six branches having flames that exemplify wisdom, understanding, counsel, power, knowledge and reverence. The menorah occupied a place of great distinction in the worship of God in the Old Testament. It symbolizes several things: It is time for restoration and regeneration. The church needs to be ablaze with the light of absolute truth. We, as members of the church, should shine forth as lamps in a very dark world.

Of course, we know the menorah presents the Presence of God, but we need to be reminded that the actual symbol of that Presence was still visible as a menorah in the early church. The early believers would have been horrified to think that God would remove the menorah. We did it for Him and now, we think nothing of the menorah, but that it is a Jewish sign. Its Description, Function, and Purpose The menorah is mentioned in a detailed description in Exodus Chapters 25 and While Moses was conversing with God on Mt.

Sinai, God instructed Moses to make a candlestick. In fact, God gave very specific instructions to its design and then its placement in the Tabernacle, according to the pattern of heavenly things. While many of the other items that God explained ceased to exist, the menorah continues to be a symbol.

It was to be made out of one piece of hammered or beaten gold, but there are no directions about its size. Since I believe the menorah represents God, it makes sense that there would be no directions to its size, since God cannot be measured. Only olive oil of the purest quality was put in its seven lamps to be burned. This consecrated olive oil burned from evening until morning, according to Exodus Thus, the function of the menorah was to light the Holy Place of the Tabernacle and the Temple. God even states where it is to be placed in Exodus The Israelites knew from reading Psalms And from Isaiah, the Israelites discerned that they were to be a light to the Gentiles or the nations.

This is the same example for us, as believers in Christ. Yarden in his book, The Tree of Light: A Study of the Menorah, suggests that the concept and form of the menorah are likely to have derived from the Tree of Life. Thus, the Tree of Life was probably an almond tree. There are ten other references to almond trees in the Bible. A couple of Bible verses in Jeremiah refer to an almond tree: And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. His son, Solomon states that wisdom is a tree of life in Proverbs 3: It is an ideal image of life and resurrection, as is the menorah.

And he said, Here am I. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. God called Moses from the burning bush. As the Word of God came from the tree of fire; similarly, the menorah is a golden tree whose fire brings light and life through the Word of God. And John tells us the definition of the Word of God: The Bible, the first century historian Josephus, and the Mishnah a collection of studies of Jewish Oral Traditions never state the size of the menorah. The menorah weighed the same as 3, silver shekels, which was around pounds. The light weight of the menorah is attributed to its six arms being hollow.

The shaft was also hollow and as it rose from a thicker lower part, it thinned toward the top. Gold is obtained through refinement and speaks to the purification process one undergoes in an ongoing relationship with the living God. It requests us to pause and pass by and commune with God.

Did God would want something in the Tabernacle and the Temple to remind him of his encounter with Moses? Before we start, let me briefly explain the difference between the seven-candle and nine-candle menorah. The seven-candle menorah is the traditional candelabra prescribed for use in Tabernacle of Moses. The nine-candle menorah is used at the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. While Alexander was respectful of Jewish culture, his general, a Syrian Seleucid King who succeeded him was not. Suspiciously, this Zeus had a close resemblance to Antiochus IV. While this was happening, a village priest named Mattathias resisted the Greeks.

They found the Temple desecrated and were appalled. Judah gave orders to purify the Temple. After cleansing it, the lamps of the sacred menorah needed to be lit. However, there was a problem. There was only enough purified oil for one day. They lit the menorah lampstand anyway, and miraculously, the oil lasted the full eight days, giving enough time to obtain more oil.

Thus, a candle is lit every night during the eight days of Hanukkah to commemorate this miracle. It, too, has a meaning, which we will share later in an article entitled: Hanukkah is the most widely known Jewish holiday by Christians; probably because it falls so close to Christmas. Most Christians think of it as the Jewish Christmas. In fact, it is a minor holiday to most Jews. The stones of the Temple altar, which had been used for the pig sacrifice of Antiochus IV, had been discarded due to their desecration, but they could not be thrown away because they had been used for holy purposes.

Thus the Maccabees stored the stones in a pile on the portico of Solomon. At least, we know he said these statements sometime between the Feast of Tabernacles and the Feast of Dedication, which is Hanukkah. Let us choose this holiday season to become a living menorah to our Lord and Savior. May we, as living Hanukkah lights, show the path to our Messiah, the savior of the world.

Hanukah celebrates a time that the Jews overcame their Syrian-Greek enemies and rededicated and purified their Temple. When we look back at this event in history, the enemy of the Jews was Greece, but in reality, their enemy was Satan. Why is Satan the enemy of the Jews? The answer is simple. Satan, the most beautiful angel in Heaven and one of the closest angels to God, decided he wanted to become God and so he tried to overthrow God.

Satan and his allies, who were one-third of the angels, lost the war in Heaven and were kicked out. When God created Adam and Eve, Satan noticed. Satan planned their destruction by portraying God as a liar. But God was prepared and had a plan; God would choose a people and through these chosen people would come a Messiah, who would be a light to the world. The chosen people were the Jews. Satan has worked hard through all history to stop the Jews from worshipping God and to prevent the Messiah from coming to save the world.

His plan in B. It included a Syrian-Greek ruler named Antiochus Epiphanies, who attached Jerusalem and killed 80, Jews, enslaved others, destroyed the temple and stole its articles, destroyed copies of the Law, and prohibited the Jewish religion and circumcision. If a son was circumcised, the baby was killed and the mother crucified with her son hanging around her neck. Later, he erected an idol of Zeus who looked a lot like Antiochus Epiphanies on the temple site, sacrificed a pig on the altar, and made a brothel for his soldiers on the Temple mount.

At the same time, Antiochus brought Greek philosophy. In order to be rich or powerful, the Jews had to embrace the Greek way of thinking. I think that Satan will continue to use his strategies just he did before Hanukah. The strategies that have always been so successful are violence and wars, greed and corruption, and pride and status-seeking. There will be an increase in wars and violence in the end times; Satan will use wars, physical and psychological violence, bullying, and neglect, and anything else that works to hurt the church and believers in Christ.

He will also incorporate the desire to have wealth to cause Christians to grow cold in their faith. Satan will also use pride and status-seeking. Just like the Jewish priest and leaders preserved only the Jewish ideas that fit with Greek thinking and removed laws that made Judaism look different from the world, there will be a push to make the church look more like the world; you can see this already occurring by some churches performing same-sex marriage. Anticipate that the world will have more violence, more greed, and more people being politically correct to keep their high status in society.

In short, the world is going to become more polarized. You will be forced to make a choice. Choose wisely as your whole eternal life depends upon this choice. Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin. In fact, candles were unknown in the Middle East until about A. The menorah only burned olive oil. Each stem and branch of the menorah ended in a bowl. Only the purist consecrated virgin olive oil was used. The menorah was the only light in the tabernacle and, at the same time, it funneled its smoke toward the Ark of the Covenant. The Temple built by Solomon was said to contain ten menorahs.

Again, the menorahs were the only light in the temple and they, too, directed their smoke toward the Ark of the Covenant. The Second Temple reverted back to only one menorah and, moreover, had no Ark of the Covenant. The menorah burned from evening until morning, according to Exodus The Talmud said that only the center lamp was left burning all day, which required as much oil as all the other lamps put together.

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The Talmud also mentioned that even though this center lamp was lit first and the oil in all the other lamps had burned out, the center lamp continued to burn, which was believed to show that the Shekinah resided in the land of Israel. The center lamp was called the ner Elohim or lamp of God. All the other lamps in the menorah faced this middle light, which alone faced west toward the Holy of Holies.

The oil and wicks of this candle were changed in such a way to make sure that its light never went out.

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According to the Talmud, the continuous burning of the central lamp ended about 40 years before the destruction of the Second Temple in 30 C. No matter what the priests did, the light of the menorah would go out. The priest would also trim the wicks, so the flames of the menorah would burn throughout the night, which meant that the Shekinah Glory of God watched over Israel.

Actually, the laws surrounding the lightening of the menorah were inconsistent. The Jews believed that this was on purpose to demonstrate that we are here, but we desire to be something better. If fact, the law said that an ordinary layperson could do this. However, there was a law that restricted entrance into the sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem.

No layperson could go beyond the Temple courtyard. This created a paradox: The Jewish answer was to act as if you were in the better place. The way of the Long Pole. It is both observable and unfathomable. We can see rainbows, sunbeams, and eclipses. In fact, some of the smartest people in the world have studied light. Albert Einstein attempted to imagine what it would be like to ride on a beam of light. Just as light is challenging to explain, God is difficult to define. John describes God as light: Plants would not grow and there would be no warmth.

Earth would be just a frozen ball lost in a black sky. Light brings to earth: Light can be divided into seven colors. Since God is light and the number seven indicates perfection and completeness, the menorah pattern of seven is a physical symbol to show that God is perfect! Light drives away darkness. Allow the light of our living Savior that dwells within us to shine out into our dark world of sin.

The Bible teaches us that the gospel light is not to be covered, but to be noticeable for all to see so that they may leave their spiritual darkness and come into the light of the knowledge of the Lord. God is the source of light. When He created light on the first day, this was not the light of the sun, moon, or stars, since these were created on the fourth day. The light of the first day, then, must be the light of God. Without Him, we are in the dark. We can only stumble around, not knowing where we are going.

All the darkness in the world cannot put out a single candle. The entry of sin into the world made darkness into an evil spiritual force. Man learned to know evil and fear God. Darkness is dead and hell is the outer darkness, a place where God is not. He saved us and gave us the gift of eternal life, but we have to accept His gift.

Light is stronger than darkness and can overcome it. God created light before he created plants and animals. Light is also needed for us to see. Sinful man has no spiritual eyes to seen sin, because there is no light to reflect on them. These twelve Bible verses from the King James Bible are obviously singled out and removed from context. I selected them to demonstrate that God is light, that God gives us direction, and that God eradicates darkness.

Most importantly, they describe how we can be a light switch to the world. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. These Bible verses from the King James Bible are obviously singled out and removed from context. They were selected to show that God is light, that God gives us direction, and that God eradicates darkness. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

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If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! Spiritual truths are revealed in a pattern of seven. Seven is spiritual perfection and, therefore, mirrors God, who is perfect.

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This pattern of seven is known as the menorah design. In fact, God twice instructed Moses to be sure to follow the pattern for the menorah that He, Himself, revealed. Like the Seven Feasts, God designed the whole structure of the Tabernacle and its instruments as a prophetic picture of His Son, The Word of God, who tabernacles with us, according to John 1: The Book of Isaiah shows the connection between the number seven and the light that God established in his design of the menorah.

The Book of Revelation further describes the connection. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot,…. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: Isaiah states in Isaiah Seven also stems from the creation, which also had a pattern of seven.

The Book of Revelation uses the word, seven, 54 times. There are seven churches, seven angels to the seven churches, seven seals, seven trumpet plagues, seven thunders, and the seven last plagues. And, the first resurrection of the dead takes place at the seventh trumpet, completing salvation for the church.

The seven branches of the menorah can mean certain spiritual concepts. For example, an obvious example is that the seven arms of the menorah represent the seven days of creation. The seven churches described in Revelation can also correspond to the menorah. What about the seven spirits explained in chapter 11 of the Book of Isaiah? Can the menorah exemplify these seven spirits? We just examined in one of the pervious articles how the number seven stands for perfection and completion.

Kevin Conner, a theologian who was formerly the senior minister of Waverley Christian Fellowship in Australia, has written of his examination of the original menorah, as it is described in Exodus He explains that in Verse 33 each of the six branches coming out of the main shaft are decorated with three sets of cups like almond blossom and then a bulb and then a flower. This would create three sets of three units on each branch for a total of nine units per branch.

The main shaft of the menorah, however, had four sets of blossoms, bulbs and flowers, making a total of twelve units on the shaft Exodus All together, this would create a total of 66 units, which Conner claims is a picture of the completed Christian canon of Scripture. In short, our Bible has 66 books. Moreover, Conner notes that the total decorative units on the shaft and the three branches equate to 39, which is the number of books in the Old Testament, and the units on the remaining three branches came to 27 units, which is the number of books in the New Testament.

This comparison of the menorah with the Bible demonstrates that the menorah directs us to the truth and to the Word of God. The sweater was knit in stockinette, and when I came to a particular area where the butterflies went, if I was knitting, I purled; if I was purling, I knitted.

Made for a very pretty relief pattern on the sweater! You can, but remember that a knit stitch is not the perfect square that a cross stitch charted stitch is. So your finished design will be wider then the chart. For some designs that will not matter at all; for some they may look distorted. Patty Sutter a regular here. It will elongate the picture somewhat as K stitches are not square but long and skinny.

I have done intarsia crochet with xs charts. But if you don't mind a slightly stretched picture, there is no reason it won't work. You could also xs the design on after knitting. So, I wonder if I did it sideways if that would work. Actually I think it would be okay if it were elongated a bit, but I don't think wider would look very good. There's something that just isn't real natural looking about a pudgy wolf.

BAck before I "officially" learned to knit, I used to do counted cross embroidery. There was an offshoot called "duplicate stitch" which was done over stockinette knitted backgrounds. The main difference is the stockinett base is "taller" than wider. You won't see the squares like you would with counted cross. If you can find information about duplicate stitch and how it works, I think it would help you in your planned project. You may need many bobbins for the color changes. I'd like to see your project when completed. If you decide do top stitch the design as opposed to knit, the duplicate stitch would be cleaner than using "x".

At the cross stitch festivals, cotton sweaters with an area specific fo the duplicate stitch were sold. I bought two of the sweaters over the years but wear them without having stitched them. Now you've got me thinking of a possible project for the winter as I have no idea where the book I bought with the instructions is. Jessica-Jean a regular here. If you're up for transferring the picture to knitter's graph paper, you may find one of the following links useful: