Over the weekend, I put the finishing back stitches onto a sorta large counted cross stitch project that I'd started back in January. At which point I took a picture, so I could share here my finished product. And then, scanning back though this entire year's blog posts, couldn't find a single mention that I was even doing any counted cross stitch once Christmas presents had been made for 2024.
Huh.
Well, for a good part of the winter and a bit of early spring, I was working on a new cross stitch, by the same designer as the fox and the squirrel I'd done in previous years. This one is a rabbit, and you can find the pattern here. I actually got everything but about three colors of the back stitching done by Easter time. And then my cross stitch got put away in the 'clean the house for Easter company' frenzy, and until ten days ago, I hadn't touched it once.
Typically summer is not a time of much stitching for me, as there is so much to be done outside and other than cooking/eating meals most days I'm not in the house until after dark. As I get older, my eyes don't so much like cross stitching under artificial light. So cross stitching has become more of a cold-weather day time thing for me.
However, we had some really hot and extremely humid weather lately, and in the name of not dropping dead from heat stroke, I spent a bit more time indoors than I usually would in July. And, to be productive without actually doing housework I pulled out my rabbit cross stitch and decided to put some back stitches into it. By the third day of working a little here and there on it, I was surprised to find that I was done!
So, here it is!
You know what this means, right? Now I need to pick a new cross stitch project to start so I have something to stitch on if we continue to have suffocatingly humid days this summer. 🤣 Realistically, it's time to pick a new Santa ornament to stitch as my Mom's Christmas gift this year. I have several kits in my stash as options.
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