I finished the cross-stitch portion of my current project, nicknamed Cranky the Turtle. (When I took his picture, he kept turning his back on me – very cranky indeed!)
I worked on this really intensely from January through March, then finished it up in the past two weeks or so. Now all I have left is to outline the turtle in backstitch, to help it stand out a bit more from the background.
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