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Catchycan
@catchycan.bsky.social
Interests: Cross stitch / embroidery / cozy games / reading books / romance books / history / writing / Jane Austen
I've also got fibromyalgia / chronic pain and fatigue
Trying out a new art therapy idea. Stitching out my fibromyalgia pain and then covering it with flowers.
#fibromyalgia #chronicpain
May 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Not the best lighting sorry, but just finished my first #everyoneiswelcomehere banned bookmark 💖
I found the words pop a bit more if you back stitch around them. The pattern is up for free on my website
laurawolfbookclub.wordpress.com/just-for-fun/
#craftivism #dei #idaho 🪡💙 #crossstitch
March 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Cross stitch progress 💖

#everyoneiswelcomehere #dei #equality #craftivism 🪡💙
March 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
My reading log so far this year. Most of these have been audiobooks from #Libby the #library app.
It's devastating to see funding being stripped away from libraries in the US. Access to books is so important.
I'm treating the #bannedbooks lists as recommended reading lists too.
March 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
March 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Working on a FORBIDDEN bookmark pattern
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🩷🩵🩶
#everyoneiswelcomehere #dei #crossstitch #embroidery 🪡💙
March 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Stitching up my ancestors. I took the body position and outline from one of her daughters and a dress of hers from another picture to combine them.
#embroidery #ancestry #newzealand 🪡💙🇳🇿
March 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Want a free book to help kids learn critical thinking skills? Here you go 💖
Cyberkidsbooks.com

#booksky 💙📚
#teachers #parents #education
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Stitching stories found in my ancestry. She may have been a willing kidnappee (is that a word?) as her servant helped secure her posessions. She'd been staying at Romsey Abbey but it's unclear if she was a guest or was there for another reason.
March 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Meanwhile, PBTech is out there trying to break up couples with their Valentine's Day deals 😂😂 #valentinesday #nzsky #newzealand
February 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trying this embroidery a couple ways using techniques I've not done before. #embroidery 💙🪡🇳🇿
February 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Found this picture of my 18x great grandmother and am thinking I'll embroider it on calico. Not sure about colours yet. Can anyone read the banner? Something mercy & lady something?

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February 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Latest library find 📚💙 #janeausten
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Deciding what to do with this cross stitch I made using charts from an old op shop book over Xmas. Maybe a cushion cover? I'm gonna be drowning in cushions hahahaha 🇳🇿🪡
February 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I wrote this book last year 🇳🇿📚💙🪡
Great to get the paperbacks! It's available on Amazon 😊
February 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#bookmail 😍
Been looking forward to reading A Pirate's Life for Tea - and I've already actually read Bookshops and Bonedust via the library audiobook but I wanted one on my shelf too lol, I'll want to reread it for sure 😊 📚💙
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Turning scraps into blackwork bookmarks 🪡🇳🇿
February 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Finished - messed up my framing a bit but I might take it out and put it on a cushion at some stage, just trying to practice before I try framing up my big piece 😱
Took the design from the knitting pattern in Piecework mag via the library app
🪡🇳🇿 #embroidery #crossstitch #janeausten
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Short overview of the Celtic history of Ireland. Good introductory info and not super long - but enough to know where you're starting if you want a deeper look at anything. I'm kind if keen to look more into the pantheon now 💙📚
February 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Latest find on Libby. I'm learning a lot about the history of Ukraine I've never heard before
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February 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Latest audiobook on Libby - I recommend everyone reads this book, it will change the way you view history, news and propaganda. 📚💙
February 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reading log so far this year 📚💙
February 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Progress 💖 had to go buy some more thread since I'm doing this one with 3 strands - burning through it super fast!
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"I can't spiral through my anxieties without proper nourishment" is what I will now say every time I need a snack 😂

#booksky #apprenticetothevillain
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February 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
New WIP
The pattern is actually a knitting pattern from the Jane Austen edition of Piecework - from Libby, the library app 🪡🇳🇿
February 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM