RIP Debbie - your beautiful spirit and love of cross stitch is never forgotten
This is Nunavut Santa from Mill Hill. I grabhed it because Auntie needed to go to the emergency room and I needed something compact to work on. I ended up taking it on vacation and finishing it in a lovely mountain inn. It was my first attempt at "turkey work " and my second try at beading:
The other finish was also from a kit, this came with Cross Stitcher magazine. I don't know which issue because they've stopped putting dates on magazine pages. The designer is Susan Penny. It's supposed to end up as a needlebook, we'll see if it ever gets that far, haha:
I had my last post on June 1 and this is July 31 so I guess that counts as posting once a month, ha ha.
Auntie has started low level hallucinating and she set her yard on fire, so we've moved to professional caregivers and no smoking and she just has to deal with it. The silver lining is we don't have to go to her house every day and I feel like I can plan more than 5 minutes of my life at a time.
On the stitchy front I finished a bookmark kit from Just Cross Stitch, of a lovely giraffe. It came with a card stock thing to put it in to make a proper bookmark out of it:
This is some perfect spring color to balance all the rainstorms we're having. I'm in heaven with this weather, I shouldn't say anything with all the flooding we're having but I wish it would never stop!
Here's "Blackwork Bookmark" by Susan Penny in from Cross Stitcher Magazine, April 2019. Stitched with leftover threads from a kit.
In other stitching news, I'm glad I take pictures because otherwise some of these I wouldn't know that I had gotten anywhere at all!
Dinosaurs has more sky:
Zinnias has more leaves and flowers and it almost says Zinnias now instead of Zinntas:
Aliens has more of the stuff around the blast zone:
Triskele is almost done:
Celtic Angel has more wings growing - this is being stitched with the charted threads but it's on ivory aida instead of the blue in the picture. It's amazing how much more purple the model looks!
And Octopus's Garden joined the rotation, there's a little more seaweed and border done:
This is Grave Fellows by Lindy Stitches. The brownish birds were supposed to be gray, but it was too gray so I switched to something that I thought looked more autumnal but now that it's done it looks a little baby poopy. It makes me laugh so I guess I'll keep it! My poor birds!
We had a break in at my church and had to cancel Ash Wednesday services so I don't feel like my Lent has gotten off to a proper start. I haven't even decided what to give up. But it's supposed to be a wonderful rainy weekend so I'm hoping to get more into the spirit. Who would ever break into a church? Even if you aren't religious you have to know that's some bad juju. The mind boggles.
I'll start with the sweetheart - Jo at Serendipitous Stitching is hosting a Valentine's blog hop. We all sent her a picture of finish for Valentine's, and she assigned it to someone else's blog, so now we have to hunt it down and figure out who our secret sweetheart is. This is the valentine I received, I haven't found who it's from yet:
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:
