Stitched up Chinese Zodiac

I'm getting a calendar made at Black's, and wanted to do something quick and illustrative instead of photographs.  So I made these chinese zodiac designs up.  The plan was to overlay a texture and be done - but I wasn't happy with just that.  So I played around with them and came up with a "Kirby's Epic Yarn"-ish patch-y look.  In the compilation below, I just pulled them off of their individual calendar pages, so the colours are a little unorganised when put all together but they make sense on their own.

Below are some examples of the calendar pages, and a close up of a few of my favourites.