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Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 11d

Cross stitch progress week 3 🧶 🪡 🧵: caught up on chores, and stitched over all the blue. Two pictures this week, as I switched to a smaller q-snap. The clamp holds this one better and it's easier to work two-handed and reach everything. 😄 Next: stitching over a lot of that yellow background.

An image of a stamped cross stitch. A pink flower is stitched, and some petals. The rest of the frame is almost all taken up by the bright yellow of the not yet stitched background

An image of a stamped cross stitch. The bottom right corner shows most stitching, pink flowers and leaves. Also visible now is part of the not yet stitched head and neck of the flamingo, and a load of yellow unstitched background

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 12d

It really isn't! My binoculars for watching the 90% partial eclipse on the 12th of August this year just arrived today, I need that moon to stay in one piece!

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 13d

I finally 'caught' a peacock butterfly! 🌱😀 (A reasonable picture of one, no butterflies were harmed). I've seen these flying around in my yard all week, sometimes three at a time, and all earlier attempts failed: flew away, wings closed, the light hitting wrong so looking almost entirely black...

A close up of a peacock butterfly, sitting with wings open, on a bunch of white buddleia flowers.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 26d

Cross stitch week 2🧵 🪡 🧶 : not a lot of progress. I cut my left index finger on Sunday morning, and didn't stitch again until Wednesday evening, as the wound reopened with the slightest knock or poke. Now, a party first and I will make up for (treat myself to) the missed stitching time next week 😄

A printed cross stitch of a flamingo, upside down. Compared to last week, only some minor progress on the bottom right corner was made, maybe a quarter of all the bright blue print.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 28d

As for plants and flowers, there isn't much news though. Most of what was already blooming is still going strong, the only newcomers are some of the livingstone daisies, which are slowly opening up. 🌱 #gardening

A close up of a pink livingstone daisy flower, the petals are pink on the outside and fade to white on the inside.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· 29d

My sincere apologies to these two, who got caught up in my attempts to water my plants. The butterfly got hit with the spray from the hose more than once and the spider had its web destroyed. I didn't see it before aiming a watering can right through it to water the potted plant it was inhabiting. 🌱

A close up of a "painted lady", a kind of butterfly, sitting on some buddleia. Its wings are closed, but the evening sunlight shining through them, giving them an orange glow.

A close up of a small garden spider. This one is more orange than brown. In the background is a partially ruined web, which was hit by a watering can.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jul 11

First week of progress! I'm definitely having happy new project vibes. This cross stitch is just so bright 🌞😃 (both the stamping, all that yellow! and the floss, so pink!). Goal for next week is to try and finish all of the stamped blue around the areas I've already stitched. 🧶 🪡 🧵

A square image of a stamped Aida cloth in a plastic snap frame. There are some flower and leave shapes in various shades of bright pink and orange already stitched.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jul 8

And before people get a too romantic idea of having a garden (even as small as mine): the weeds I pulled today. I didn't keep up during a heatwave, and am regretting it! So much grasses, horsetail ferns, a knotweed, some weird plant almost as big as a sunflower, digging out bindweed. 🌱

A big blue bucket (10 liters), filled with weeds. Some gardening gloves are lying on top, a tool for uprooting weeds is stuck in at the side. It shows mostly grasses.

Another almost full bucket of weeds! Again, a lot of grasses but also a knotweed and some really big weird plants, folded to fit. Also, again gloves on top, tool for uprooting weeds on the side

A picture of the really weird, really high weed slumped against a brick wall. If it were completely upright, it would be almost as tall as my sunflowers, close to 150cm.

A picture of bindweed being dug out. A small hole has been dug, showing part of the root, which continues further underground

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jul 4

I went with a flamingo as my next cross stitch project. I want something bright after all the muted blue and grey tones from the penguins, though I will probably regret it once I reach the sea of pink in this one 🫣. First 21 bright orange stitches done, only 37615 stitches to go! 🧵 🪡 🧶

A close up of a stamped cross stitch. It is upside down, and in the bottom right corner of the image, 21 bright orange cross stitches are visible.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jul 4

Week 14: cross stitch is done! 🧶 🪡 🧵 😃 I was reminded of how much I hate backstitching, especially as this had to go through 'the middle' of crosses a lot, instead of on the corners. Now to find a nice frame and gift it! 🎁

The finished cross stitch before backstitching

The cross stitch, with backstitching, soaking in water. It shows the weird colors it gets when soaking.

The cross stitch after drying and ironing. It still looks weirdly wrinkled om the picture but is flat in real life...

Picture of the back. I'm proud of how neat it is, that will make framing it very flat a lot easier.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jul 3

While the penguins cross stitch is soaking in water, I'm trying to choose a next project. Finish the dinosaur forest (from owlforest)? One of three other owlforest patterns I have patterns+supplies for? One of the four stamped kits? I'm leaning towards flamingo, just because it's so summer-y.🧵 🪡 🧶

Two cross stitch kits, both featuring magnolia flowers. These are massive, 50 by 70 cm each.

Two smaller cross stitch kits, both 40 by 40 cm, one showing a flamingo and theol other a yellow cup, an open book and a blue blanket on a different shade of blue background.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 27

Week 13: I didn't entirely meet my goal from last week, but I'm calling it close enough. Stopping for today as my arm is starting to feel tired. Next week is vacation, so the goal is to finish the entire cross stitch! 🧶 🪡 🧵

The cross stitch of two baby penguins. The head on the right is fully stitched, the one on the left still needs the eye and a cheek to be done.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 24

En weet iemand hoe laat het is?

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 24

Rare aardappel ook...

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 21

Oops! I forgot to post my cross stitch progress of week 12 yesterday 🫣 🧵 🪡 🧶. So here's a picture of this morning, before I did anything. That's practically the same thing as a picture from yesterday evening. 😅 Goal for next week is finishing both heads!

The cross stitch of two baby penguins. The head of the one on the right is almost finished, except for a few colors on the beak.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 18

Heat wave incoming. 🔥🌞 Those always destroy my appetite for regular meals, so I made a big bowl of pasta salad to snack on instead. This is officially four servings but it will probably last me a whole week. 🍽️ 🍜

A top view of a big bowl of pasta salad, showing apple, pointed pepper, peach, smoked chicken, orzo and spring onion covered in a mayo and canned peach juice dressing.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 15

The colors don't clash, but the finish just doesn't look as neat as it would've if I'd used a single color. It's really hard to capture well in a picture, but if I'd have used all purple, this would look more like a single, solid purple line instead of a pink line with wonky purple stitches on it.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 13

Week 11 was bad for cross stitch progress. 🧶 🧵 🪡 Great for some other things though, cooking, gardening, organizing, being a couch potato... Just not so much for cross stitching 😃

A cross stitch of two baby penguins. Almost everything below the horizon line is finished, and a start is made on the head of the right baby penguin.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 7

Spent time restocking the freezer today. Four different meals, 19 portions. Three of them are stock favorites, the fourth is a new dish, with radishes, chicken and potatoes from the oven. To be served chilled with an orange juice and mustard dressing. 🍽️ 🍜

A top view of three pots: one filled with bami, the other with vegetables, chicken and chicken tonight sauce, and the third with a chicken pilav.

A sheet of baking paper with chicken, potato bits and radishes (cut into quarters) on top of it, all quite nicely browned in the oven.

19 Ikea pruta containers, all filled with meals.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Jun 6

Week 10! The cross stitch is coming along nicely, almost finished everything below the horizon 😃 🪡 🧵 🧶.

The cross stitch of two baby penguins. Compared to the previous week, the body of the penguin on the right is now finished, as is almost all of the background to the right of that, up to the horizon.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· May 31

I forgot spring cleaning when I wrote that, finishing it by the end of June is too ambitious now. He doesn't sell it, and we're still experimenting (see pics of what happened to version 1). I can ask him if he can share the design so you can (get someone to) print it (for you), if it finally works.

Close up of a 3d printed embroidery frame clamp, showing points of failure.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· May 30

After 7 weeks of different stuff, I'm back to regularly working on the baby penguins cross stitch 🧶 🧵 🪡 🥰. I'm just going to count it as "week 9" for progress purposes, as the hours I spent during those seven weeks about average what I would do in a week anyways.

Picture of the stamped cross stitch of the two baby penguins. The left one had its colors redone, switching two blueish tones with ones that are actually grey. Also, some small progress was made on the right one, with its belly almost entirely done.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· May 11

Did a whole bunch of 'baking' over the past three days. It was good to spend some time in the kitchen again ☺️. The result: two sorts of no-bake cream cheese cakes for Mother's Day last Sunday, and a small pound cake + no-bake lemon curd cakes as a treat for coworkers tomorrow. 🍽️🍜

Four cream cheese cakes in a container, seen from almost directly above. They're 7cm in diameter and each is topped with half a strawberry, in quarters and a bright green gelatin.

A small pound cake on a wooden cutting board, with a steak knife for scale. It's about half a knife long. The top is cracked and uneven, most likely due to wrong baking temperatures.

Five lemon curd cakes, on a tray with baking paper. Each is 7cm in diameter and topped with a darker yellow gelatin layer.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Apr 11

Cross stitch progress week 8: not a lot on the penguins, except for ripping out the light blue. Had to do some travelling and took a few of the small potted plant cross stitches I had lying around. Finished three of them, making five of those finished in total, only 7 to go! 🧶 🧵 🪡

The cross stitch of two baby penguins. All the bright light blue on the belly of the left penguin has been taken out again.

Three simple cross stitches of potted plants.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Apr 4

Cross stitch progress week 7: got a lot done. I wasn't happy with how much the blue stood out among the grey on the left, so I switched in some colors from my stash for the right. Any opinions on what is better: the blues (1 and 2) or the light and greenish gray (3 and 4)? 🪡🧵🧶

A picture of the stamped cross stitch with two baby penguins. The belly of the penguin on the right is now also almost done. Some areas are labelled with red numbers, to sollicit opinions on the colors used in those areas.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Apr 2

I really almost chickened out when I saw how much this was, afraid of wouldn't fit in the freezer🫣... But it seems 20kg of chicken fits just fiiine, with room to spare. Ready for a few rounds of meal prepping to come now. 🍽️ 🍜

An open rectangular box containing 10kg of chicken thigh fillets, and a big, translucent blue plastic bag filled with 10kg of chicken breast fillets. They're both so big they cover the surface of the stovetop they're on almost entirely.

A picture of a freezer drawer, about three quarters filled with stacks of ziplock bags filled with portions of 800 and 400 grams of the chicken thigh fillets, uncut pieces. Each bag has the contents + today's date written on it.

Another freezer drawer, also about three quarters filled with the chicken breast. The breasts are cut into small pieces/cubes, and also in 400/800 gram sized portions in ziplock bags.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Mar 28

Cross stitch progress time: two weeks (5 & 6) instead of one. 🪡 🧵 🧶 Had a bit of chaos last week so didn't post progress. Bonus picture of the back this week, still happy with how neat it is. There's a few threads I'll need to tuck in properly, but so far working from the front only goes very well.

A stamped cross stitch of two baby penguins. The one on the left is now finished from the neck down. Also, the little bits of background ice between the two penguins at the top and bottom are stitched in now.

A picture of the back of the cross stitch. There are no knots/knotty bits!

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Mar 24

Well, this was a disappointment! Tried baking bread using one of my cast iron pots as a "shape". Changed nothing else, followed the instructions on the box mix just like usual... But the bread just isn't "done". Tried to cut it and the crust is rock hard but raw dough just stuck to the knife 😞🍜🍽️

A picture showing a ball of raw dough with a rock hard crust on a bamboo cutting board. A small slice that was cut off and the bread knife smeared with raw dough is besides it.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Mar 23

Time to start restocking the freezer meals. Made six servings of the chicken-apple slowcooker curry (forgot to take a picture while it was still in the slowcooker) and six servings of spicy green beans, chicken and baby potatoes (one eaten as tonight's dinner already). 🍽️ 🍜 😋

A wok filled to the brim with chicken, green beans and baby potatoes. Everything has a orange-brownish hue, due to being seasoned with (amongst other things) kecap and sambal.

11 Ikea pruta containers (square, 0,6L) with yellow lids, one stack of five filled with the green bean dish from the other picture, the other two stacks of three filled with the chicken apple curry.

Tinkeringbell@tinkeringbell91· Mar 14

Cross stitch week 4. Feeling like I'm back on track to finish this by June. Not so sure about the colors though. Hopefully it looks better once everything is filled out.