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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's steotchalong time! Here's week 1 and 2. I think i'm going for a Scooby Doo ending somehow.... #steotchalong #crrrossstitching

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Distracting myself from another project with my first foundation paper pieced Death Star and AT-AT. #quilting #foundationpaperpiecing #starwarsquilt

Death Star in shades of white with a middle band and patch of shades of grey. It sits on a background of dark green with stars.

AT-AT in shades of white stomping over a background of dark green with stars.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Finished what I'm calling the mother distracter. It was out no more than 10min before it gained a cat.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

First completed project for the year a Gondor tabard. I don't think I'm ever using waste canvas again.... #crossstitch

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Goodbye 2025, your layers were nice and rainbow until the last few days. Hello empty jar of 2026.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Franklin visited work the other day so I escorted him out of the building and as I was doing so I told him how cute he was but how I didn't appreciate him getting me wet. Cue scandalized face of another teacher who heard me until I point out Franklin is the black cat that just went past the window.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

There's about 1.5x this still growing on the plant. NOT A TOTAL GARDEN FAILURE!

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

53%(ish) done with the pattern as written..... I think I'm gonna make it bigger #blanketknit

Partially completed blanket of white and rainbow squares sits on a wood surface.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Blueberry muffins and cranberry biscotti all made with base recipes from The Elements of Baking. This book really is wonderful, I haven't had a recipe or modification fail yet and before this book I hadn't had success making any of these things friendly!

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And thus it begins.... Cloudsfactory 2025 SAL They did not start us off easy this year.... so many more stitches than last but I adore it already. Jan 1/2 Tolkien

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Busy bee building the latest Lego bouquet

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

5 days of hard work and the gloomhaven storage solution on boardgame geek is completed. I'm afraid to try pack it all into the game box.....

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As is traditional on the eve of a new year I look back at the layers of thread ends that describe the year. It's a bit lean, there's quite a layer of green at the bottom but there's still a wonderful rainbow and soon there will be an empty jar waiting for the rainbow next year brings.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Gluten free cinnamon sugar tossed brioche from The Element of Baking. This cookbook (textbook) is amazing and I absolutely recommend if you have to regularly make your baking allergy free. I haven't used it to modify yet but I'm excited to in future!

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Gingerbread crackle cookies and dark chocolate dipped orange shortbread sticks from TheLoopyWhisk

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Harvested my first 2 strawberries for the season today..... it's a minor miracle if you consider I killed 2/3 of the plants I started with. BY ACCIDENT! Also I did it 6 months exactly after we moved in.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Nothing to compare to but I tried a Loopy Whisk recipe today and it was worth the effort it took to find all the flours and things.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Some days it's the little things like trying to put your hair up with a cute clip to realise it's fucking right handed and that being a lefty you're never going to get it to work.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

My cat likes to walk around the house meowing like a screaming baby at full volume yet her mouth is full of her favorite toy. This is fine.... until she drags said toy all the way down to the bedroom at 1am. Just waiting for the day she jumps on the bed with it at that time.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

This one might be more than I can chew..... CircleCross.net gothic cathedral temperature stitch. #stitchingblackwork

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

January complete after 2 days..... Ithink they started us off easy The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen #cffairytales #crossstitcher

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Someone is a little furry troublemaker

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Been on a kids hat kick and just looking for the right pom pom before I finish them. First colour work just because I could in hat 4. #knitter

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Time for a traditional post, looking back on the year through the colours I've used and the projects completed and those still in the works. This year is possibly the best rainbow yet as the oort jar shows. A rainbow of fantastic women and dinosaurs and our sweet boy Charlie amongst others.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

That feeling when you (an adult) need to remind someone (also an adult) that if they want to make gingerbread people they can't just search gingerbread recipe because the last time they did that they almost made cake. Then the feeling of learning not everyone knows gingerbread is also a cake.....

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

That feeling when an older person looks at your Christmas groceries and tells you "Not to worry there's less pressure when you get to their age" and all you want to say back is "Not if I'm not popping out a couple of kids to take the cooking on for me."

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Still murder but at least she's picking on something her own size this time

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

There is definitely murder in those eyes

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Apparently she's a laundry basket type cat

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Lol and the outfits strike again. Today I met a fella who walked miles to see his brother in hospital to find out he wasn't in the main one and couldn't get to where he was before he had to leave town again. This is counter to what I normally draw in, very old men with war stories.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Back to some more regular programming - colour blocks and confetti

Large blocks of bright colours in shades of red, yellow and blue with pale blue confetti cross stitched on a pale grey background. The actual shape of the piece is impossible to tell but it is reminiscent of a rain map on the weather segment of the news shows.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

May have reached flower maximum in my candle holder..... oh well

Looking down on a collection of lego flowers. Flowers include sunflowers, lavender, daffodils, lotus blossoms, queen Anne lace and several other varieties. The vase sits on a light coloured wood mat which is on another white painted surface.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Surely I can't be the first to use the phrase "Astarion food zoned me".... right???? #BaldursGate3

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Officially introducing the newest member of the house, Honey. She arrives in a little under 48hrs.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Me watching Anne with an E for the umpteenth time...... Anne: But needlepoint provides so little scope for the imagination! Me (at the screen): Then obviously you're doing it wrong.

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Lorelai @lothlorienelf.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

This feels like the right way to start things. 4.28% #LongDogCrossStitch

Black and grey cross stitch on yellow background with Calcifer on a log holding a needle

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