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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey #crossstitch peeps, I'm looking for a sparkly pink or grey aida or lugana. Ideally from a Canadian seller. Anyone has a store to recommend? (Picture of the project for attention).

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have I picked up my cross stitch again? No. Have made needle minders from the guitar picks that came with my James Oliver books? Yes, yes, I did! Maybe it'll help me get back to it!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Haven't cross stitched at all but Emna from Farouches podcast feministe inspired me to make this pattern (it's French for if you were a spice you'd be corn strach) 😅

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Last night I finished reading this book, after months of reading a page here and there. It's my second physical book finish of the year, sounds like I'm actually doing the whole back to physical media thing!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Let's see if BlueSky #booksky is better at recommendations than booksta! Weird, liminal, 80s/90s vibes, horror, or very niche nonfiction prefered 🙏🏻

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Reading Dirtbag, Massachusetts, I am reminded that I have not a single unique experience to my name 🤷🏻‍♀️ #booksky

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Finally hit the 20% completion on the long dog sampler!!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Look at her enjoying Halloween decor, she's truly a member of the family! #cornsnake #snake

Picture of a juvenile snow corn snake on a plushy stack of plaid pumpkins

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

3/3 Made the trinkets one for a tag yourself post on my IG and the other one is a personal project (geese unrelated to the reference and I'm curious if anyone gets the reference or if it's too niche?) let me know if there's interest for the patterns!

Cross stitch mock up of a ghost with the like it's me and my Halloween trinkets against the world.

Mock up of a cross stitch featuring geese and the phrase Gone E-Wording

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

2/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

1/3 Made these cross stitch mock ups for a tag yourself post on my IG but I also have the PDF patterns, let me know if there's interest!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finished Find Us (loved it), onto the next. @elfordalley.bsky.social September is going swimmingly (you shouldn't have suggested it if you didn't want to hear about it 😂😂) 🩸📚

Cover of the book ash and bone: tales of terror by Elford Alley featuring half of a blue sketch of a skull on a solid black background

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

It's the little things that make me fall in love with a book 🩸📚

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Ok for some reason that emphasis came across as very girlypop coded (especially with the luminous eyes mentioned earlier), pop off queen and *looks at notes* slay the whole town! #justgirlthings 🩸📚

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

3 stories in and loving this one 🩸📚

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Starting September at 17.5% completion on the sampler. How's everyone cross stitching going?

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

16.56% done and time to move the hoop but I think I might call it a night and curl up with a book. How's everyone stitching going this weekend?

Picture of a cross stitch piece in a spring tensio hoop with a pink and white pumpkin needle minder. The stitching is of folksy geometric flowers and birds and is done all in dark green.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I low-key enjoy getting used books that have been highlighted so I can sit there and wonder why they thought that part was particularly important

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Seen earlier today, I hope the graffiti artist who did that has an excellent Friday 💜

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Another hoop moving time! It's not in the picture but I made it to 15% completion with less than an hour to the new month which probably felt like more of an achievement than it really was.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Muffin-Moon is such an apex predator even ghosts are afraid of him.

Picture of a lion head rabbit behind a large ceramic ghost

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

It's, at long last, time to move the hoop! The cats are impressed by all the cross stitch action!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Sometimes the book matches the reading buddy

Picture of a blue-eyed color point cat loafing next to the book Fake work how I began to suspect capitalism is a joke

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Finishing Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence by Benjamin S. Case

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The fact that this is how I saw your post (I don't follow them) is equal part funny and sad

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New *free* cross stitch pattern available on my ko-fi for those days where you need a reminder that while cybertrucks can ruin your day at least mother nature is trying to save us from having to look at them!

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

It is done! Pattern is from The Witchy Stitcher's upcoming book. I did not follow the pattern exactly I changed some colors and didn't give the characters their hat because I liked them better without, in the pattern the little bat guy has some detailing and orange eyes and mouth, wasn't my vibe.

Picture of an Halloween cross stitch and a small pair of embroidery scissors on a blanket.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Halloween is a people, not a holiday and it's Halloween every day here! (Pattern is from the Witchy Stitcher's book which drops in August)

Picture of a small part of a cross stitch with a needle sticking out. The stitched image is of a blue jack o' lantern with wings

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism by Eleanor Johnson

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The committee for carrots enjoyment (the isopods) were looking particularly cute this morning, but the oddly white one was particularly chill

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

@stevewestenra.bsky.social I felt this paragraph in my bones. Was it intentionally written to be read to the tune of a Ghost Town (or any other electro-core band really) song?

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm still sick to the point where I feel faint from doing the dishes for 5 minutes but Pretty Boi the betta is being a good dad and the pods are isopoding quite beautifully so it's not all bad.

Close up picture of an ocellata betta (wild type) the fish has a large mouth and distinctive scales in a blue grey pattern. His fins are translucent.

Picture of a single calico pattern isopod on a piece of bark

Picture 10 isopods on a piece of bark. Their colors and patterns are varied some are calico patterned and 2 are light orange while 2 more are dark brown.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today we learn why we don't take pictures of bettas from the top. 😂 I love this goofy fish so much

Picture of a wild type (ocellata) betta fish from the top. The fish is looking up and her eyes are particularly wide. The fish is surrounded by Java fern leaves

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Another month, another delivery from @haymarketbooks.org to make sure my purse can always double as a self-defense tool 😅

Picture of the book I didn't come here to lie my life and education by Karen Lewis and Elizabeth Todd-Breland, foreword by Angela Y Davis - Afterword by Stacy Davis-Gates

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Also currently reading and enjoying this one. I don't normally vibe with creepy kids stories but this one's working for me. 🩸📚

Cover of the book Progeny by Kenya Moss-Dyme

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Sitting down to cross stitch for the first time this month 😅

Picture of a cross stitch featuring birds and a flower in a sampler style.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just a little Noodz for your Friday morning.

Picture of small snow morph (pinkish color with white markings and red eyes) corn snake coming out of a large fluffy artificial flower.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It finally happened, a book from the piles had to be relocated (sacrificed) to the dusty shelf to maintain the structural integrity of the the piles. We are gathered here today to thank it for volunteering (I've already read it and won't be rereading soon)

Picture of the book witness by Lyle C May.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The lil stack of books that arrived today!

Picture of a stack of books on in front of a water lilies by Monet reproduction. From top to bottom Dear mothman, never leaving by Elford Alley, Bless the Blood a cancer memoir by Wales Nehanda, Old wounds by Logan Ashley Kisner and I feed her to the best and the beast is me.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Made it to 10% with a day to spare!!!

Picture of a cross stitch featuring a heart shape, a bird and part of a flower.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Are you looking for a cozy horror mystery with colorful and fun characters? Hazel Graves has you covered!

Cover of the book The little Coffee Shop of Terrors by Hazel Graves (the cover features a coffee cup on a saucer with red liquid seeping from the edge and there's a tuxedo cat in the background) behind the cover is a picture of an eclectic vintage maximalist decor and the word review is next to the cover. Below are 5 mugs to indicate the rating of the book.

Text: Graves' Little Coffee Shop of Terrors is a delightful blend of cozy mystery settings and low angst horror vibes. The characters were so much fun and the ending was great.

If you've read Cackle by Rachel Harrison, you know the kind of vibe I'm talking about, alas no spider pet here just a tuxedo cat and a pothos named Audrey III (which I really liked since I have a healthy appreciation for naming plants especially pothos, mine are named Regina and Queen).

The sense of humor is very millennial coded and I was absolutely here for it.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Bought the snuffle mat for Muffin-Moon (🐇) but the girls love it so much that I don't think he's ever going to get a chance to use it

Picture of a tuxedo cat sleeping in a ray of sun on an avocado shaped snuffle mat.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

From the 70 books I've read so far this year this is the second one which I'm certain will make it to my favorite of the year list. Can't recommend it enough. 🩸📚

Picture of the book is it enough yet by Emily Flynn-Jones a collection of melancholic horror stories inspired by millenial music. The book is on a pale background featuring glittery black hearts and above it there's the word review in a distressed font. At the bottom partly in front of it are 5 small pink Medusa busts.

"they walked together, towards inevitablity"

Is quiet pink horror a thing? Because I'm pretty confident it's what this collection of short stories (Is it Enough Yet? by Emily Flynn-Jones) is and it is absolutely delightful (as long as your version of delightful includes horror).

Bleak, heartbreaking and occasionally bloody but also a tender love letter to girlhood and to the music that speaks to the core of your soul for better or worse (a quintessentially millenial thing apparently. Beautifully and unpretentiously written it really had everything to sink its claws into my mind.

I wasn't familiar with any of the songs referenced in the book and it didn't diminish my enjoyment, not one bit.

It even had little bits about the author's inspiration and creative process for each story which I really enjoyed. It reminded me a little of Acts of Violence by Marcus Hawke another one of my criminally slept on favorites (is it a canadian thing to give extra context or just an anxiety thing?). This is the second book I've read this year which I can already tell is going to be a favorite for the year.

Long story short, I can't recommend this book enough.

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It's almost annoying how cute Link is

Picture of a blue eyed color point cat laying on a tattooed forearm

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Stitching Ghost @stitching-ghost.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This goofy girl yeeted herself out of her tank. Wild type Bettas are something else. (She's fine but she damn near gave us a heart attack)

Picture of a juvenile female macrostoma Betta (beige-ish small fish with short translucent fins).

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