Showing posts with label Wild Olive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Olive. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2025

A Friday Finish!

 This is Retro Roller Skate, it was a freebie from Wild Olive. I was a roller skating queen in my own mind growing up, and my most precious possession was my white boot roller skates with stripes and red wheels. I really enjoyed rolling down memory lane while I stitched this!


I got another letter done in Braver:


Cape Cod Halloween is getting a roof on a blue house:


Hustle got the lettering started:



and the Modern Turtle got some more of it's shell:



Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Happy Ash Wednesday?

It's not really a happy type of holiday but you can't really wish people "somber Ash Wednesday!" or something like that. I have no idea what I'm giving up for Lent but I have almost two hours before church today so I'll be thinking fast!


I don't feel like I got too much done since the last post, but there's been a lot of construction and home repair going on and I can't focus while there are strange men in and around my house. I can't really focus when my husband's home either, so who knows what my excuse is, haha.  

Anyway, El Toro is still almost finished - just needs some hooves and horns and the title:



This was a bookmark freebie from cross stitcher that I started because there was too much light peach and black on El Toro and I needed some more color in my life:


There's some more red creeping up the rainbow of You're Awesome:


The roller skate is actually done according to the pattern, but I decided to backstitch it so it's now back at almost done:


I started Chinese Dragon from Riolis. I think this is the fourth pattern I have with that name, haha.



Final start was Dragon Hall from Long Dog Samplers.  The palette is autumnal so I'm changing all the colors. But I touched the wall and top and now I'm stitching the next layer backwards to make sure I counted correctly.



A little flashback from our trip to Canada. It's terrible how politicians can ruin things. I hope our countries can go back to being friends and allies soon.


Sunday, February 9, 2025

Happy Super Bowl!

 You can tell I'm not paying attention because here I am haha.  I'm not into either team and I have a strong suspicion the game will be annoyingly contaminated with politics and Will They Get Married commentary,  so I'm starting a new rotation.  I've been monogamous which is why this is finished but I can't stand it and it's making me chafe.  


I  have a finish! On Feathered Wings by Dinky Dyes. I love white on red! I used blanc, 3865, and B5200. For my life I can't tell the difference between them so I just keep them all filed as white. 


I have a near finish! El Toro by Barbra Ana just needs his name and a the non-furry parts. Right now he looks really mad because he only has one horn:



Dinosaurs has crept along with more sunset:


This oldie from Daily Cross Stitch finally got started:


And this was a freebie from Wild Olive's blog, a flashback to my Xanadu era: