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April Showers bring a Gnome & Flowers

This was the quickest, easiest square to do! ( Especially after all the trouble the last two squares have given me.) I saw the original gnome for this square, and knew I wanted to stitch one that looked like a Tomten , since we have them around the house every year for Christmas. A simple enough edit; I was happy to find 453 was a good backstitch colour to make the beard pop on my white fabric. This square was also lovely to do because of all those wonderfully springtime hues in the grass and blossoms and the bright warm wood of the tree. Made me happy just to look at it while I worked on it. It's the next square that's giving me a minor headache. I've completely changed the square for May, and it has a lot of different shades of green planned; it's been difficult to figure out which greens to use to keep it from looking all the same. Ended up being very thankful for this little piece of Easy to do in amongst all the difficult bits, haha. And now, if ...

Return of the Big Mistake

I did it again -- stitched a square without the border done first, and oh boy did that turn out great *last* time! One stitch off. Again. Just like with the phoenix square, I made a tiny mistake on one part of the border, and hadn't finished stitching the box itself. Which meant all I had to go off of was a bad border. And put my whole satyr square down one row, where it will now collide with the bottom border when I stitch it in. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhhhh.................. So, that's why there's been a pause on the updates for now. The entire square is completely finished, but it's all got to come out. If I leave it, I'd need to move everything else from this square on, down by one stitch, which would mean needing to mess around with the interior borders to make sure everything matches -- and it's really obvious that September's and October's squares are a bit wider in the mock up I made in Excel. So. I'm just going to have to ri...

Patronus Finish!

I've got a finish! This was started quite a long time ago, and I found it again after a recent move, with all but the lower right corner finished. So I spent a good long afternoon on it, and it's finally done! (When was the last time I completed a cross stitch, hey....) There are other patterns quite like this one that I kind of prefer to this piece now, but I'm still really pleased with how this came out. It's stitched entirely with 3 strands of 939, so it's an inky black-blue rather than just plain black, and I love it.

A Tiny Nessie

When I first saw the square for June , the first thing I saw was a sea monster. Knock the wings off, and the body looked just like one! But if you do that, and turn this cute pair into sea creatures (or lake creatures, if they are Nessies?), then you have to redo the background. I really wanted to do some sort of buried treasure, but it just wasn't working out, so this is what I ended up with. The seaweed and bubbles are from the original July square (with the mermaid), moved to a new home here in this block. Then the Nessies are just recolours of what they were as dragons (plus some flippers). It was more difficult to know how much cave to do. There isn't much like this in the rest of the project -- thickly stitched areas that cover a lot of the fabric -- especially not as a background. There was quite a lot of cave at first, that I had to chip away at, little by little, so it covered the least amount I thought I could get away with while still looking lik...

Elves in a Garden

Ta-da! This square is one of the biggest changes I've ever made to a pattern. I've replaced the wizard from the Sword in the Stone (1963) with elves! Most of this is original; the elves are based on a Lord of the Rings pattern, but the rest are of my own design. The elf in purple (and it is purple - my camera has a difficult time picking up purple, and tends to make it all blue) is almost entirely the same as Galadriel in this LotR piece , but I flipped the shadow and light so it makes sense with the light from the lantern. The second elf is Galadriel's pattern cut in half and slightly modified so it would also make sense with the lit lantern the elf carries (the lantern was my own invention though, inspired by that scene in the Two Towers where the elves leave Rivendell). Unfortunately, it looks like the pattern I based them on is no longer available to purchase; this is the Etsy shop I discovered it in, and you can see (if you scroll down to reviews) peop...

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