Happy May Day!

 A nice stitching roundup for the end of April!

I've had this beautiful dream that one day all my smaller pieces will be done and then I'll go crazy with my big ones, but that dream really depended on me not finding anything else to stitch and..cough cough...ahem...

So I'm kind of recalibrating and digging into the vault to get my bigger pieces moving, and this is my biggest, the Sistine Chapel by HAED. I stitched some more of the ceiling border:

Sweet Tea Rex by Ardith Designs has all the blue dinosaurs filled in:

Sakura Pagoda by Riolis got all sky work this week:

Bear Walk by Stitchy Fish got more sunset and Big Bear got more fur:

Rouxdolph by Dirty Annies has more letters:

Ukraine Map has more of Cherkasy Oblast:

and Braver by Dimensions has more random flowers and lettering:

Spent the week beating the tariffs - got a bike rack installed on my car, air conditioner fixed, ordered Sunday School supplies for the rest of the year, looted Joanns and got my birthday/anniversary order in early at 123 stitch.  We may end up  feasting on dandelions and nettles, but at least I'll be getting my craft on!

Kuna likes to nap in her hole outside when it gets hot, but she can't really relax at night because she's scared of the neighborhood owl. Poor Kuna!

Midsummer Mice!

 I hope everyone stayed cool for IHSW! I did almost no stitching but if I don't post now I may never post again, haha!

I've been working on the sky of Dinosaurs:

Also working on the sky of Pagoda:

Auntie's been in and out of the ER so I had the genius idea of starting all my Furry Tales mice by Lucie Heaton, since they're small and the mice are all the same color.  I've been gutting my magazine freebies and looting the threads of the things I'll never stitch, so the colors don't necessarily match the pattern.

Princess Mouse in honor of my sister the belle of every ball:

Gamer mouse also in honor of my sister, same girl, different mood:

COVID nurse mouse, it's entirely possible I'll make this into a card for Auntie's caregiver. Auntie was testing positive for 70 days with no symptoms at all (I thought we were done with COVID, sigh), then tested negative for a month and then ended up in the hospital with a plain old cold that got out of hand. Grrr:

This is Sewing Mouse in honor of me!

Cave Mouse, also in honor of me; same girl, different mood haha:

Hippie Mouse in honor of Auntie:

I got a little moused out at this point so this is Elmer the Elephant.  If you've never read the book it's about an elephant learning to love looking different, it's a very cute story.  

And this is supposed to end up as a coin purse - I think it's called a Tatreez style, JCS had an issue where they talked about this kind of stitching, and I think that's where this pattern came from:

Kuna says stay frosty!