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Lisa
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Day 5 progress:
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. It's a colorful sampler with a strawberry border full of traditional and funky motifs, like two small dogs, a flower, a big berry bowl, brightly colored trees with fruit, and a motley peacock.
July 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Today's new addition is the Rhinoceros Hornbill!
Photo of a cross stitch in progress. On marbled light brown fabric, the top part of an ornate aviary with a couple of colorful birds. In the top left corner, a hornbill in flight.
July 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Day 4 progress:
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. It's a colorful sampler with a strawberry border full of traditional and funky motifs, like two small dogs, a flower, a big berry bowl, and brightly colored trees with oblong and round fruit in various colors.
July 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Day 3 progress:
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. It's a colorful sampler with a strawberry border full of traditional and funky motifs, like two small dogs, a flower. The funky tree is completed with funky oblong fruits and another berry bowl is started
July 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Day 2 progress:
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. It's a colorful sampler with a strawberry border full of traditional and funky motifs, like two small dogs, a flower. The border is brought down further on the right side and there are parts of a new, light green and yellow tree.
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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My #WIPGO2025 calls for July are 10 days on Thirza Priscilla Dawes 1870 by Hemlock and Rye. #crossstitch
This is my day 1 progress:
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. It's a colorful sampler with a strawberry border full of traditional and funky motifs, like two small dogs, a flower bouquet and a really funky flower.
July 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I finished the July portion for #Stitch4Pride2025 which is dedicated to Amelio Robles Ávila. He was a colonel in the Mexican revolutionary war.

Pattern: Stitch4Pride 2025
Designer: Dee's 20 Stitches

Stitched 1 over 1 on 18 ct black Aida by Zweigart with Anchor 1201.

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Photo of a cross stitch with a variegated pink to white thread on black fabric. A big bird with wings wide open is holding a snake in its fangs. On the sides of the bird are the words "La Tierra Es Para Quien La Trabaja".
July 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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This week's feature was stinky birds (and the rest of the tree).

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Photo of a cross stitch in progress. A couple of colorful birds in a huge ornate aviary.
July 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Here's my monthly bug & flower for July!

Pattern: Flora and Fauna
Designer: Kyoko Maruoka (Gera!)

Stitched 1 over 1 on a mystery cream evenweave.
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Photo of a cross stitch: a rectangle with a yellow flower and a big black and blue bug. Underneath, the text "Juli". Photo of seven cross stitched rectangles with colorful flowers and different bugs and insects. Underneath each rectangle is the name of a month in German from "Januar" to "Juli".
July 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Up to date on #ExtraordinaryBirdsSAL. Last feature was big billed birdies: shoebill and toucan 💙

Pattern: Extraordinary Birds SAL
Designer: @lolacrow.bsky.social

I'm stitching 1 over 1 on 20 CT Aida in the color Mossy Terracotta by XJuDesign with the called for DMCs.
Photo of a cross stitch in progress. Lots of colorful birds in a giant ornate aviary on a creamy fabric with brown and green spots.
June 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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For WIPGO, I worked on my Quacker Sampler for 10 days and I got quite a bit done! Turns out, it's a great piece for train stitching.

Pattern: Quacker Sampler
Designer: Star Parade Designs
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Photo of a cross stitch in progress. Lots of Quaker medallions on white on dark blue evenweave but they are all duck themed. Digital mock-up of the whole sampler in white on teal. Lots of duck-themed Quaker motifs plus some feathers, ducks in flight and such.
May 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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I'm famously bad at photographing my finishes (partly because I only iron them once I get around to FFOing), so you just have to take my word for it: The colors in this piece are so fun and rich and springy!
Pattern: Floral Etchings
Designer: Heart in Hand
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Photo of a finished cross stitch on wrinkly creme linen. Three different flowers in pink, red, blue and gold with one stitch borders around each one. The style is mid century modern. Close-up of the finished cross stitch on wrinkly creme linen. The left flower has green leaves and pink petals in an oval shape. The style is mid century modern. Close-up of the finished cross stitch on wrinkly creme linen. The middle flower has green leaves and the top is a half round shape in a dark red with small golden triangles on top. The style is mid century modern Close-up of the finished cross stitch on wrinkly creme linen. The right flower has green leaves and the petals are stitched in blue and gold threads. The blue is stitched in a kind of zigzag pattern with single golden throughout. The style is mid century modern.
May 30, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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This finish is brought to you by ✨ train delays ✨

Pattern: Orange Love
Designer: Wanderling Stitches
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Stitched 1 over 1 on creme evenweave with a mix of DMCs and Anchor flosses.
Photo of a cross stitched orange and a green vine with small oranges and little white flowers on the right.
May 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Delayed train (Böschungsbrand!) = more stitching time

Pattern: Orange Love
Designer: Wanderling Stitches
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Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop with the back of a train seat in the background. A green vine with small oranges and little white flowers to the right, a half stitches bigger orange on the left.
May 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Done with May's installment of Flora and Fauna by Kyoko Maruoka!
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Photo of a cross stitch in a wooden hoop: a colorful moth in pastel colors with pink flowers with light blue border around it and the word "Mai" written inside the borders. Photo of a creme colored piece of fabric with five cross stitch rectangles with different colorful insects and flowers. Each rectangle has the name of a month stitched underneath.
May 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It's the 15th, so I'm starting Teatime Nature Walk by @sproutinglupine.bsky.social for my #AYearOfNaturrWalks! I'm still waiting in some colors to come in but I already got a good start.

Stitched 1 over 1 with the called-for DMCs on 20 ct Zweigart Aida in mimosengrün.
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a purple plastic hoop. On light green fabric, there are yellow blobs, the dark green outline of a bug in flight, a flower with purple petals and two chamomile flowers.
April 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I finally got my start in on April's installment of #stitch4pride2025 by Dee's 20 Stitches! The pattern is inspired by Ozaawindib, a Chief of the Leech Lake Ojibwe that I'm looking forward to learning more about!
The floss is Gulliver from Cottage Garden Threads.
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Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop: Parts of what looks like a rod in a lightly variegated yellow floss on a grey fabric.
April 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I quickly put in the two brown birdies for #motifaweek so I can get to my new start after dinner! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Pattern: And a Forest Grew
Designer: Rosewood Manor
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Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. On a beige fabric, there are a lot of trees and animals.
April 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I like that we're getting into the weirder critters now 💚
Pattern: Flora and Fauna
Designer: Kyoko Maruoka

Stitched 1 over 1 on evenweave with the called-for DMCs. #crossstitch
Photo of a cross stitch in a wooden hoop. It's a small rectangle depicting a praying mantis in front of purple flowers. At the bottom is the text "April".
April 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Another start & finish for the weekend!
I saw that Cam the Stitcher released her very first cross stitch pattern earlier this week & I immediately started it. I mixed the two color ways she provides: I used the prim colors for the moon & the bright colors for the moon. They're so cute! #crossstitch
Photo of a cross stitch in a wooden hoop. A figure with a plum colored dress and a sickle moon head is holding hands with a figure in brownish-orange shirt and suspenders and a head in the form of the sun.
March 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Started and finished the new charity pattern for Trans LifeLine by @badstitch.bsky.social yesterday! I left off the little doodads between the caterpillar and butterfly and I'll frame them side by side in corresponding frames 🐛🦋
Pattern: Metamorphosis
Designer: BAD Stitch
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Photo of a cross stitch of a caterpillar and a butterfly in flight on a gray linen. The motifs are stitched in light pinks, blues and a white thread.
March 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I haven't shown you And A Forest Grew in a while but I have indeed been diligently putting in my #motifaweek every week (plus a little bit more).
Today I put in the first few trees on the top of THE VERY LAST PAGE!

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Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. In the hoop, there are a bunch of different trees and birds and other critters.
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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It's a finish!
I love the tiny toad, especially the yellow accents!

Pattern: Thunderstorm Nature Walk
Designer: @sproutinglupine.bsky.social
#crossstitch #AYearOfNatureWalks
Photo of a finished cross stitch. On blueish-gray fabric, there are several plants and mushrooms in a gray and yellow color palette. In the bottom left, a big toad is sitting under a leaf. On the sides, there are two back stitched thunderstrokes. A photo of the same cross stitch but zoomed in on the toad beneath the leaf. He looks grumpy.
March 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Here's yesterday's start on my March piece for #AYearOfNatureWalksSAL

Pattern: Thunderstorm Nature Walk
Designer: @sproutinglupine.bsky.social
Photo of a cross stitch in progress in a wooden hoop. On blueish-gray fabric, there are two dark gray flowers, a gray flower with yellow petals and a grey fly. A share pic of six different counted cross stitch patterns with different plants and animals on differently colored fabrics. In the middle, there's the hashtag #AYearOfNatureWalksSAL.
March 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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And here's the Finish (for now!)
Photo of a cross stitch in a wooden hoop. There is a light blue border with the word "März" at the bottom. Inside the rectangular border is a big red flower with lots of green leaves. In the upper right corner is a bee in flight with black and yellow stripes and an orange and olive checkerboard pattern on its torso.
March 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM