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Leblue
@leblue.bsky.social
WoW/FFXIV casual. Typically working on a large cross stitch project or crochet pokemon. This will be 99% for me posting progress posts or finished projects.
My daughters and I made gingerbread cookies this weekend. First time we've ever made them. Will be doing it again later this week in an attempt to make a homemade gingerbread house.
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Been a bit but here's....Pikachu. I've made this one before but had a request and this is actually the kit I bought that I failed to do when I first started doing crochet. The hook I used was even smaller than the one provided! The other Pikachu is shown for comparison

#crochet #pokemon
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Bulbasaur is done. I've been done with it a bit but social media isn't a place I've wanted to be lately so yeah...now it's Christmas presents I need to hurry up and finish XD. As a bonus I got a hold of charmander briefly for a group shot.

#crochet #pokemon
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A late WIP update but it's been busy. The main part is finally done on Santa. All that's left now is to do all the backstitching and French knots to bring this one home. When? Hopefully soon but classes just started back up and OSRS has a mini league going...

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 AM
It's not a perfect bulb but it's a bulb. I'm way more laissez-faire about crochet than my cross stitch lol. My attempts to get it to round out was ending more in frustration which I'm not about with crochet.
October 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Continuing along the top portion of Santa, I took a small detour to start cleaning up the bottom. I had to frog some stuff around the poinsettias to fix an error I literally made years ago and am just now catching.

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
September 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Vulpix is all done. Other than the tails and hair this one wasn't too bad. I'm cool with how few minor details there were and it came together nicely. Up next is Bulbasaur to round out the original starters.

#crochet #pokemon
September 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Lapras wasn't as bad as I thought but good gog the shell was more work than I thought it would be. I used a rice stuffed sock in a plastic bag to weigh the body down.

I got the big pieces together during break time so it's just the smaller stuff later.
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Okay finally have all the pieces done after a lot of hand cramps with the hair and tail curls. Hoping to finish this entirely before I return to work this week.

#crochet #wip
September 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is a late entry but here's the progress on my current plush project. I've got the main parts of Vulpix done and now I've got the tail and hair to make before I put this one together. Pretty good number of pieces to make still so we'll see how long it takes

#crochet #wip #wipWednesday
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Progress on Santa is moving. I've finished the leaves that frame the picture along with making some progress along Santa's back where I frogged a bit to fix a counting issue. As a bonus I've put a picture from 7 months ago on my last update for it.

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
September 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
And my youngest's plush request is complete. Her name is Octavia and she's very soft and helped me burn through the rest of a dark pink skein. I used a bit of green on top since I ran out and the sparkly pink for the eyes. I've got a couple pokemon projects lined up next...

#crochet
August 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The winter dragon in all its detailed glory is done. I've attached the picture prior to the embroidery just as a showcase of how much it pops when all the little details are added, even though they take a good bit of time to do. Now for Santa...

#crossstitch #dragon
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So the cross stitch portion of this is now done. The next step is adding all the embroidery details that will really make this pop out and I'm excited to get cracking on it.

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Almost there. I finally finished all the tentacles and now it's just finishing up the body and making the eyes. I will run out of the pink yarn I'm using before that point so it will get a slight bit more... colorful.

#crochet #wip #wipWednesday
August 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Here's my current crochet project that has been getting done very slowly. The combo of small rounds, color changes, and puff stitches along with my lack of time has been impeding progress a bit. That said the main body will be a great yarn buster.

#crochet #wip #wipWednesday
August 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just about done with the main bulk of this dragon. While it's already coming out quite lovely, this is like a lot of the other small dragons I've done in that there's a lot of backstitch work to do to really pull out the detail.

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
August 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Yep not santa. This is a winter dragon sitting on a frosty dream catcher. It's another of the small dragon patterns with some detail work at the end. I've already had to frog a chunk of stitches because I miscounted and had a part offset >_<

#crossstitch #wip #wipWednesday
August 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I know I need to do santa...but I couldn't resist getting my next small project together. Courtesy of my mother-in-law she dropped off a bunch of floss from her mother and sister so I only had to buy 3 colors for this project. I'm doing this on 28 count over two so this'll be fun.

#crossstitch
July 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Because I can't give one kid something without giving something to the others, I made the axolotl a sibling. Pretty much exhausted the green and pink and started from the bottom up this time. My next plush reminds me how much I love crocheting in small rounds...

#crochet
July 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Almost two years of work and chipping away and it's finally done. At some point during the year I'll sneak it home, clean it, and get it framed but I've got about a year to get it done. Feels good to have this one done. It's been a journey.

#crossstitch
July 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Dear whatever eldritch being, chaos God, or machine spirit I need to suck up to for this evening. Please make tonight a quiet night at work so that I may finish this project.

Thanks

#crossstitch
July 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A little axolotl pattern my wife found me on Instagram. Pretty much used this as a yarn busting opportunity. I went to make eye brows for the pink eyes and my wife commented the eyes look like cheeks with the eye brows looking like closed eyes. C'est la vie I suppose

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July 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
72065/75625(95.29%)

Final update before finishing this project up. I've narrowest it down to 5 colors left with only one color having over 1000 stitches left. There's not much in the way of confetti at this point and the plan is to just go color by color to finish this off.

#crossstitch #wip
July 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Going through shirts for disposal or donation and found this blast from the past that's safely in the keepsake pile.

Funny enough getting involved in the healing community, and then monk community, had a big hand in me expanding my world view on a lot of things being freshly out of the military
July 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM