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Kat (Sprouting Lupine)
@sproutinglupine.bsky.social
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cross stitch designer and amateur birder/wildlife photographer (she/her)

all photos are my own unless otherwise specified

https://bio.link/sproutinglupine
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I'm part of a Valentine's day cross stitch bundle that's raising money for charities that we felt embodied love! It's running until Feb 14th, here's my contribution To Be Loved. More info on the charities and how to donate and get your patterns here: bit.ly/3Cu5RKn
A cross stitch pattern on light green fabric. Yellow butterflies and flowers form a circle around the backstitched, cursive text "to be loved is to be changed". The dot over the eye and the tail of the "d" in changed are heart shaped
February 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Been spending a lot of time recently framing my models and it's honestly so nice to see so many things I've made all together like this. Normally I finish a design and throw it in a box after taking pics but having them all nice and framed and displayed together? Chef's kiss
Several rows of framed cross stitch pieces displayed together. The pieces are all in different frames and are different sizes.
February 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Many tutorials later, I finally made a new logo and branding for Sprouting Lupine!
A logo with a green circle overlaid on a light brown paper texture. A monochrome drawing of a sphinx moth is in the middle with the text "sprouting lupine" wrapping around the circle with x's as the dots for the i's.
January 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Give em the ol razzle dazzle

#birds
A juvenile gull with a black-tipped bill, pink legs, and brown mottling through its body, taking a small step forward while balancing with its wings slightly up but still folded.
January 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I just released my next newsletter cross stitch freebie, Lovers' Promenade, an addition to my Nature Walk series! I also have two other freebies, Crow Quaker and Moon Magic, that are available after sign-up 😊

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A rectangular cross stitch pattern stitched in greens, purples, and pinks. It features a string of hearts, fuchsia flowers, lavender flowers, cyclamen flowers, and a pink orchid mantis right in the middle. A small cross stitch octagonal motif featuring 4 crows, gray leaves, and pink flowers. It is finished in a warm brown wooden jewelry box lid. A small cross stitch pattern of the text "Moon Magic" superimposed onto a gray crescent moon. The text is stitched in a variegated blue-purple-orange thread and is surrounded by white stars.
January 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Winter Moon, my final Nature Walk cross stitch pattern from last year!

#CrossStitch
A rectangular cross stitch featuring a great horned owl with sleepy yellow-green eyes perched on a snow and berry laden juniper branch, dead brown winter leaves, and a snow berry bush, all in front of a full moon surrounded by blue backstitched stars. A row of icicles frames the top of the pattern.
January 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I did a set of cross stitch smalls alongside my big Valentine's sampler pattern this year 💗 here's Valentine Curios!
Three small cross stitch pieces of pink moths finished in antique silver filigree frames. Each is stitched on the same soft pink fabric. The first piece is a vertical stack of 3 moths and the last two are moon moths with long tails on their hindwings.
January 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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new year, new Valentine's cross stitch sampler! 💕 The pattern for Butterfly Bouquet is out now :)

#CrossStitch #StitchSky
A butterfly, moth, and heart themed cross stitch sampler stitched in berry pink, black, and gray threads on a soft pink fabric. The butterfly and flower motifs are interspersed with heart borders. Major motifs include a large common rose swallowtail butterfly with heart-shaped spots and backstitching details on the wings perched on a large pink peony flower, a black and gray butterfly with heart-shaped antennae, and a mostly black, clear-winged swallowtail butterfly with the numbers "2025" above it and the initials "KLH" below it.
January 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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My #artVSartist for this year!

#CrossStitch #artVSartist2024
A 3x3 grid of various finished cross stitch pieces, including a pale unicorn, a grim dog carrying a lantern, a pink luna moth with heart motifs, and a delft blue porcelain beetle. In the center is a photo of me, a smiling white woman with pink hair.
December 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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It snowed today so it seems as good a day as any other to share my seasonal deer spirits!
A finished cross stitch pattern featuring a small brown deer with large white antlers looking straightforward. Green vines, pink flowers, and a spiderweb hang from the antlers. Pink mushrooms and ferns grow underfoot. A finished cross stitch pattern featuring a deer with large white antlers looking straightforward. There are green vines and flowers growing from the antlers. Pink, yellow, and blue flowers are blooming underfoot. A finished cross stitch pattern featuring a strong brown deer with a skull head and large white antlers. Autumn leaves grow and fall from their antlers. Ready to harvest wheat heads are underfoot. A finished cross stitch pattern featuring a reindeer with large white antlers. Beaded icicles and backstitched pinecones hand from her antlers and snowy plants grow underfoot.
December 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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A red-headed woodpecker breeding pair I saw over the summer! They were taking turns bringing food back to their nest

#addbirder #birds
Two adult red-headed woodpeckers looking at each other on a tree trunk. One is peeking out from a hole in trunk and the other is clinging to the side with a bit of food in its beak.
December 6, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Happy the chickadees stick around all year, I love hearing them when I'm out and about

#birds #WildlifePhotography
A black capped chickadee, a small black and white songbird, perched on a pine tree branch.
December 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Midnight! I really love how the colors in this one worked out
A small cross stitch sampler featuring night time insects and flowers in a palette of blue, purple, yellow, and black. It features a large dragonfly with backstitched outstretched wings, an orchid plant, a moonflower, lightning beetles, and a small colorful moth.
November 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Twilight Nature Walk! I wanted this one to be a little more fantasy vibes
A small royal purple, navy blue, and teal cross stitch sampler featuring a large sphinx moth, a scarab beetle, a teal long-horned beetle, navy blue bleeding heart flowers, and purple and blue flowers and leaves.
November 27, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Petrichor Nature Walk! One of my favorite times to go out is when it's just barely raining, everything is so green and vibrant
A mini cross stitch sampler in brown and green earth tones with motifs of a swallowtail butterfly, a damselfly with backstitched wings perched on some teal mushrooms, a maidenhair fern, a rain beetle, fallen leaves, and isopods.
November 26, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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First Snow is my most recent Nature Walk design. It hasn't really snowed here yet, but the juncos are back!
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring song birds on pine boughs and branches with red berries. The birds are a tufted titmouse, a black capped chickadee, and a dark eyed junco.
November 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Low Tide
A small cross stitch featuring animals and algae commonly found in marine tide pools, including kelp, a hermit crab, sea stars, and small fish.
November 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Teatime! Lots of tea plants and yellow/green insects for this one

#CrossStitch #Art
A completed cross stitch sampler stitched on a grayish blue-green fabric in yellows, lime greens, and purples. It features mint leaves and flowers, yellow cucumber beetles, a chartreuse clearwing moth, a purple bee balm flower, chamomile flowers, a lime green shield bug, and a yellow glasswing butterfly.
November 23, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Thunderstorm Nature Walk 💛

#CrossStitch #Art
A small cross stitch featuring a grumpy gray tree frog sitting under a large leaf, a bright yellow mushroom, yellow birch leaves, goldenrod, and gray foggy plants
November 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Golden Hour 💛 from my Nature Walk series of mini cross stitch samplers

#art #FiberArts
A finished cross stitch of a small yellow, orange, and pink sampler. It features an adult yellow cicada, a cicada shell on an orange black-eyed susan, pink strawberries, various pink and yellow flowers, and yellow gingko leaves.
November 21, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Witching Hour 🎃

#CrossStitch #Art
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring a large magenta dahlia flower, a purple and black striped moth with orange hind wings, a striped potato beetle, orange berries, and an orange spotted fly agaric mushroom with a purple slug perched on top.
November 20, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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Midafternoon

#CrossStitch #Art
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring 3 moths, red berries, autumn leaves and flowers, a tiny snail and slug, and spotted mushrooms in an autumnal orange, yellow, and muted green palette.
November 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Sunset 🌅

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A small cross stitch sampler stitched in reds and oranges featuring several autumn leaves, a butterfly, a moth, and 2 horned beetles.
November 18, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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Couple of mallards
Two mallard ducks on the water. One has their head fully submerged with their butt up in the air and the other is flapping their wings with their bill wide open. Both have female/juvenile plumage.
November 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Digital cross stitch patterns are in my shop! Ask your LNS for printed patterns ✨

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A large cross stitch piece featuring a cream unicorn with a green mane and long yellow horn. She is walking in a garden filled with flowers in every color, including hanging wisteria vines and blue hydrangeas. The unicorn is looking up at a large tree with fig-like leaves and a silver lantern hanging from one branch. A cross stitch graveyard sampler featuring a large black dog carrying a lit lantern. Various headstones and shrines of gray stone are bordered by gothic architecture inspired borders. Willow branches and vining plants are throughout A completed cross stitch sampler of several blue beetles and strange flowers stitched on mottled blue fabric. The beetles have designs on their elytra and bodies similar to those found on Delft pottery. The largest beetle has its wings fully outstretched with the veins in backstitch. The beetle motifs include scarab, weevil, potato, rhinoceros, and Hercules. A finished, sampler-style cross stitch pattern featuring a large pink luna moth with heart motifs in the wings. The pattern also includes bees pollinating daisies, a caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly, and repeating octagonal Quaker motifs which feature moths, butterflies, or a beetle inside them. On the left, a vine with heart-shaped leaves is interspersed with the initials "K L H" and the year "2024".
November 16, 2024 at 6:48 PM