Pressing Forward!

I've finished A for Apple, D for Drum and E for Elephant. I'm doing these in the order of the 9 square patches, not Alphabetical. G for Grapes is left for this square and then I move on to the next one.
A for Apple - りんご (ringo)
D for Drum - たいこ (taiko) My mom said this looks kind of like a robot :p
E for Elephant - ぞう (zoo or zou)

For the elephant I used on strand of blue and one strand of white thread together, I don't have a gray floss so I used this mixing idea from Jude Hill of Spirit Cloth, I really like the way it turned out!