My first finish of the year, Mr. Cardinal:
This pattern came from Cross Stitch Crazy, it was part of a series of birds. I don't know the year, the issue, or the designer because at some point magazines stopped putting all that on the pages. I love all reds and the bird was backstitched in white, a first for me!
In the meantime I've been loving all the rain we've been getting in California, it's great stitchy weather! I cued up Inspector Morse and got some more sky done on Age of Dinosuars:
More of the black outlining on Aliens:





