#dragonfly cross stitch

[theworldinstitches]

A little freebie for your weekend.

#cross stitch #free cross stitch chart #cross stitch patterns #cross stitchers of tumblr #xstitch pattern #free cross stitch pattern #cross stitch ideas #modern cross stitch #dragonfly cross stitch #dragonfly

[hyenaswine]

i finally finished carolyn's birthday piece!! the day before she goes home 😅 the pattern is by XCrossStitchPatternX, a ukrainian artist with so many beautiful bug-based patterns on her etsy (there are things besides bugs but i like the bugs the best).

#cross stitch #x stitch #fiber art #bugs #dragonfly #my art #my phone Hates my art & is determined to make it look bad in photos

[salamandra-stitch]

Dragonfly

Hexagon for 1 evening

Number of stitches 474

Size 3.5 x 5 cm size in crosses 18x28 15 colors

#cross stitch #stitch #x stitch #needlepoint #xstitching #flowers #dragonfly

[cinimuffin]

Was given a black hoodie and decided to add a dragonfly.

#embroidery #hand embroidery #cross stitch #dragonfly #bugs #insects #I just had made the pixel art of this dragonfly already #figured I'd may as well spice up the hoodie #pretty much everything could use a bug on it #fiber arts #I've already go my next project in mind #it's another one I'd already made a while ago #had the sudden realization I could embroider it so I'm gonna

[stclements]

#cross stitch #cross stitch pattern #garden #insects #butterflies #dragonfly #ladybird #moth

[goldenseresinretriever]

The San Diego Dogfighters

(A TGM Hockey!AU)

Header by @bobgasm 💚🩶💛

The NHL just had an expansion to create a new ice hockey team which resulted in the brand new San Diego Dogfighters.

Team Name: San Diego Dogfighters

Team Colors: Kale, Ultimate Gold, Antique Gold

Owner: Tom “Iceman” Kazansky

General manager: Beau “Cyclone” Simpson

Head Coach: Pete “Maverick” Mitchell

Assistant Coach: Daredevil/Dare Mitchell

Players:

Centre/Captain: Jake Seresin #86

Left Defenseman/Alternate Captain: Bradley Bradshaw #84

Right Defenseman/Alternate Captain: Javy Machado #68

Left Winger: Reuben Fitch #45

Right Winger: Mickey Garcia #42

Goalie: Bob Floyd #35

Equipment Manager: Natasha Trace

Team Physician: Bugs/Bunny

Team Nutritionist: Penny Benjamin

Athletic Trainer: Bernie “Hondo” Coleman

Goalie Development Coach: Dragon/Dragonfly/Puff Simpson

Social Media Manager: TBA

PR Representative: Zamboni/Honey

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Non-Staff Characters

Charlie

Tucker

Roadie/Meep

Josie “Jo” Fitch

Snitches Get Stitches (Jake Seresin x TeamPhysician!Reader) COMPLETED

You Catch More Bees With Honey (Bradley Bradshaw x PRRepresentative!Reader) COMPLETED

False Confidence (Javy Machado x KindergartenTeacher!Reader) ONGOING

The Long Game (Pete Mitchell x AssistantCoach!Reader) UPCOMING

Don’t Wake the Dragon (Bob Floyd x GoalieCoach!Simpson!Reader) UPCOMING

Muscle Memory (Mickey Garcia x SportsReporter!Reader) UPCOMING

Character’s Ages in the SDD Universe

The SDD Universe in Chronological Order

Important note: I’ve been made aware of the accidental similarities between this AU and “On the Ice” by @cassiemitchell and we’ve talked things out, please go check out her AU for more TGM hockey content! We’ll be working together from here on out to keep similarities from escalating

This AU was inspired by talented authors like Emily Rath and her series “Pucking Around” and Becka Mack and her “Consider Me” series just to name a few. They’re amazing authors and I would recommend their books for anyone wanting more hockey romance goodness

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Ruthie’s Ice Hockey 101

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My work cross-posted on AO3

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A/N: A first look at the Dogfighters team roster!! I’ll be revealing the players one by one and potentially also going into details for members of staff that I’ve already announced! As for a logo and/or mascot I’m gonna need more time to figure those out because I’m not an artist by any means but I’d love to design both of those.

#top gun maverick #san diego daggers hockey au #san diego daggers #tgm #tgm hockey au #top gun maverick hockey au #tom kazansky #tom iceman kazansky #pete mitchell #pete maverick mitchell #beau simpson #beau cyclone simpson #penny benjamin #bernie hondo coleman #bernie coleman #jake seresin #jake hangman seresin #bradley bradshaw #bradley rooster bradshaw #natasha phoenix trace #natasha trace #robert floyd #robert bob floyd #javy machado #javy coyote machado #reuben fitch #reuben payback fitch #mickey garcia #mickey fanboy garcia

[mathysphere]

There's a large chance the scissors tournament ends with me suddenly owning just, so many novelty scissors....

Thank you for the links in the bracket!

yessssss as it should!! there's SO many good ones out there.

I think I was able to source every pair but the geometric scissors, and if you'd like to look at even more--

Subversive Cross Stitch has a whole bunch of cool designs for sale, including like half a dozen of the ones in the tournament

Kelmscott Designs seems to be a BIG distributor of embroidery scissors; some of the Subversive Cross Stitch ones are sourced from them. I think they only sell wholesale, but if you see a pair you like it's pretty easy to find stores that'll sell them by-the-pair.

Never Not Knitting has a great selection, too, including the dragonfly scissors and a WHOLE bunch of other, similar ones. These little lovebirds almost made it into the bracket, but my sister convinced me to put in the dragonflies, instead.

Present & Correct has both vintage finds and some cool, weird scissors, like the shape scissors and these shredder scissors.

And if you'd like to daydream about some very nice luxury scissors, check out Maison Sajou, Ciselier, and the work of artist Emmanuel Jammas. Jammas made the Art Nouveau scissors plus two other pairs that'll pop up in the next round-- I tried not to have duplicate scissors from the same collections, but I made an exception for him.

like honestly for these 200€ seems kinda like a steal

#ask #sadieawesome #chit chat #scissor tournament

[badstitched]

New Release ~ You Shall Not Pass

Ok, hear me out. The Fellowship of the Ring is on their way to Mordor, but decide to go through the Mines of Moria, the city of the Dwarves. They learn that the city fell to the orcs and as they quietly and precariously trekked through the darkness, they were startled by a glowing beast, the Balrog.

Now imagine that our favorite grey wizard is a frog… and the Balrog is a dragonfly.

This pattern depicts the epic battle between Gandalf and the Balrog, the iconic scene where Gandalf hollers, "You Shall Not Pass!"

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, and also the day that Frodo and Samwise destroyed the One Ring. I hope you like this pattern, you can find it in my shop! https://badstitched.etsy.com/listing/1700452727/you-shall-not-pass-cross-stitch-pattern

#cross stitch #xstitch #crossstitch #cross stitch pattern #pixel art #stitchcraft #broderie #fiber arts #lotr #lord of the rings #frogcore #gandalf #the fellowship of the ring #the hobbit #balrog #jrr tolkien #you shall not pass

[scissor-tournament]

Dragonfly Scissors. Source unknown; sold by NeverNotKnitting and others.

Dragon Scissors. Source unknown; sold by Subversive Cross Stitch and others.

#scissor tournament #round three #poll #tournament #sewing #embroidery #scissors #id in alt text

[patronsaintofelsewhere]

'snow & dirty rain' by richard siken is so aziracrow-coded (the good omens brain-rot is so strong and so crippling)

Close your eyes. A lover is standing too close to focus on. Leave me blurry and fall toward me with your entire body. Lie under the covers, pretending to sleep, while I'm in the other room. Imagine my legs crossed, my hair combed, the shine of my boots in the slatted light. I'm thinking My plant, his chair, the ashtray that we bought together. I'm thinking This is where we live. When we were little we made houses out of cardboard boxes. We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring your friends. It's a potluck, I'm making pork chops, I'm making those long noodles you love so much. My dragonfly, my black-eyed fire, the knives in the kitchen are singing for blood, but we are the crossroads, my little outlaw, and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty which is, of course, a garden, which is a tenderness, which is a room, a lover saying Hold me tight, it's getting cold. 

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. The lawn drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backward through the glass of every room. I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube? We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen. The fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left broken in the brown dirt. And then it's gone.

Makes you sad. All your friends are gone. Goodbye Goodbye. No more tears. I would like to meet you all in Heaven. But there's a litany of dreams that happens somewhere in the middle. Moonlight spilling on the bathroom floor. A page of the book where we transcend the story of our lives, past the taco stands and record stores. Moonlight making crosses on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one. We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes. This dream going on with all of us in it. Penciling in the bighearted slob. Penciling in his outstretched arms. Our father who art in Heaven. Our father who art buried in the yard. Someone is digging your grave right now. Someone is drawing a bath to wash you clean, he said, so think of the wind, so happy, so warm. It's a fairy tale, the story underneath the story, sliding down the polished halls, lightning here and gone. We make these ridiculous idols so we can pray to what's behind them, but what happens after we get up the ladder? Do we simply stare at what's horrible and forgive it?

Here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next? The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I'm alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they're only a few steps behind you, finding the flaw, the poor weld, the place where we weren't stitched up quite right, the place they could almost slip right through if the skin wasn't trying to keep them out, to keep them here, on the other side of the theater where the curtain keeps rising. I crawled out the window and ran into the woods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they taste, the way they sound in the air.

I passed through the narrow gate, stumbled in, stumbled around for a while, and stumbled back out. I made this place for you. A place for you to love me. If this isn't a kingdom then I don't know what is. So how would you catalog it? Dawn in the fields? Snow and dirty rain? Light brought in in buckets? I was trying to describe the kingdom, but the letters kept smudging as I wrote them: the hunter's heart, the hunter's mouth, the trees and the trees and the space between the trees, swimming in gold. The words frozen. The creatures frozen. The plum sauce leaking out of the bag. Explaining will get us nowhere. I was away, I don't know where, lying on the floor, pretending I was dead. I wanted to hurt you but the victory is that I could not stomach it. We have swallowed him up, they said. It's beautiful. It really is. I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want. You said Tell me about your books, your visions made of flesh and light and I said This is the Moon. This is the Sun. Let me name the stars for you. Let me take you there. The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube... 

We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want, so I said What do you want, sweetheart? and you said Kiss me. Here I am leaving you clues. I am singing now while Rome burns. We are all just trying to be holy. My applejack, my silent night, just mash your lips against me. We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

#good omens #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #richard siken #ineffable idiots

[forpiratereasons]

15 QUESTIONS FOR 15 FRIENDS

i was tagged by @bizarrelittlemew, @livwifeofkarl @thehappyfeminist-22 thank you all <333

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? nope!

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? cried cried? gosh maybe. last week wednesday? i can't remember why now. got a little teary this morning reading my own wip though lmao

DO YOU HAVE KIDS? no i do not and i never will

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED? i played kid's baseball when i was in third grade on a team called the dragonflies. i hit the ball one time in the whole season.

DO YOU USE SARCASM? the spice of life babey!!

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? i have no idea. i'm not good with faces so i normally am looking for an item of clothing or accessory or specific hairstyle i can later use to identify the person.

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR? green

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? happy endings but i looove scary movies

ANY TALENTS? absolutely not

WHERE WERE YOU BORN? in a hospital

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? writing, cross-stitch, piano, making lists, bothering darcydog

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? darcydog my most beloved

HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'5

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? history, english lit. my undergraduate degree is in history so i guess that stuck

DREAM JOB? in an ideal world i would be a comfortable author who would do well enough to live on writing (though i would probably also want to do the work i do now but maybe more part-time) but also to be entirely anonymous. basically i want what chuck tingle has.

i haven't the spoons to tag people but if you want to do the questions feel free to say i tagged you!! <3

#tag games

[busterpointisdead]

'ts got me thinking now

What bugs would the tf2 fellas be? Feel free to reblog with your own hcs fellow buglikers

Me infodumping below the cut

I've already established pyro is a weevil but... What about the others?

Heavy is definitely a scarab beetle, they have the hardest carapice of any bug! Dung rolling aside, beeg stronk bug... And in animal crossing you find them during the winter before someone asks me why not a cold climate bug-

Medic is a jumping spider, they're incredibly intelligent and have a creepy-cute vibe. Not too spooky but palatable enough to arachnophobes... Plus, imagine him using webbing for stitches

Scout is a dragonfly, flashy and quick. Capable of 360° motion in flight and generally a very good looking bug. Maybe it's giving Scout too much credit but cmon, what's more perfect than a fast bug that immediately dies if it touches the water?

Soldier is a trap-jaw ant! Need I say more? I'm sure there's a million good options for Soldier but look at the ant and come back to me with a better idea lol

Demo is a bombardier beetle, known for being able to spit fire makes them a good candidate. You might be asking, why not Pyro be a bombardier beetle? Pyro is already weevil shaped you can't change my mind, lol. Demo is the next best thing given his love of explosions and alcohol... I imagine he uses the alcohol to help his fire spitting abilities.

Spy is an earwig. There's honestly no good reason for this they're just really nice looking bugs with really pretty wings... Earwigs are also considered pests like French people (joke)!

Pyro I established as a weevil, because weevils look like Pyro, and they're just very cute (also like Pyro! Until they burn your face off). There are also pine weevils, and pine is known for being very resilient to flames... Otherwise, not much a reason-

Sniper is a pistol shrimp... Before you say "tHat'S a CruSTaCeAn"- SHUT! These are my rules crustacean is bug to me. As the sharpshooter of the ocean world it fits Sniper very well! Also shrimp are weird, like Sniper.

Last but certainly not least is Engineer... I've been like thinking hard about this but I've determined Engie to be a roach! Hear me out roaches are smart and cleanly (domestic roaches are cleaner than dogs or cats). I imagine him digging through scrap metal to find ideal parts for machinery...

Might draw this later, but for now... Adios

#tf2 #tf2 headcanons #tf2 but they are bug

[goldenshrine]

temari

yoshimitsu and yari find an abandoned ball during their walk home ♪

content warning: none

word count: 659

Another late afternoon. The last fringe of summer, knotting itself in a seasoned wind traveling south. 

And two figures, half burdened with baskets full of sugary spring water and dumplings, goldfish and morning glories, a drink made from dried loquat leaves—allegedly it makes the tongue curl and teeth dance, but Yoshimitsu never cared much for sweets to begin with, so Yari wonders—and a handful of fireflies.

“Oh, look,” They say. Their basket bounces in tandem with their steps to keep the handle from searing their arm. “That breeze... do you feel it?”

“Ah, the changing of the seasons,” Comes their companion's bell of a voice, “Spring flowers, the autumn moon, summer’s warm breeze and winter’s snow… if thy mind is unclouded by unnecessary things, ‘tis the best season of thy life.”

Yari laughs. “How sage.”

“Such is the wisdom of a demon, naturally!”

The Manjitou residence lies yet another hour or so past the horizon, but they’re in little rush. Their sandals languidly thread rows upon rows of fertilized yarn, staining the soles pollen-green, so deep one might think they’d somehow cut the hills and stepped into its open wound. 

In this boundless stretch of green and slurred cricket-song is, curiously, a bright speckle. Yari breaks into a march to greet it.

“Treasure! Something troubles thou?”

They spin around, lifting the object to their face. “Oh, no, there’s just… someone left a ball all the way out here.”

Upon closer look, the ball blesses them with a myriad of colorful tessellations. An interweaving blue grid dissects it into several neat shapes, each bursting with embroidered dots of pink, red, and orange. It’s quite extravagant looking, actually, and they’d be inclined to treat it with a more delicate hand had it not already modestly sunk in between their fingers.

“Is it worth sending to the nearby village? I’m sure someone misses it… mm, then again, maybe not. Hm.”

They can feel Yoshimitsu watching them, amused. Her mirth seeps through her plated mask, knitting the cracks of her prosthetic as it stretches forward to take the ball. She hums something about appearances and deceiving before her other arm, the one encased in skin instead of wood, releases her basket.

Then, with the spirited grace of an athlete—or perhaps that of a mischief-laden ninja—she launches the thread ball at them.

“Oh—Yo—Yoshi!” They half giggle, half cry, all but curl themself so as to catch it without spilling anything. They touch the ground, step back, toss. Two more steps, another catch.

And so her little trick is rewarded with this: from their belly a dozen dragonflies unfurling, wings abuzz with laughter; from their heart a lick of fire, blue as cornflower and swirling faster, faster; and yes, the hissing of their nostrils; and yes, the fields’ cross-stitching their bare toes while they run. Oh, how Yari wants to run forever. With Yoshimitsu at their side, they feel like they really can.

The Manji leader, however, seems to have other plans.

Their ball, once a fiery spot of sky zipping through the hillside, now warms the earth alongside a long forgotten sandal. Yoshimitsu’s back meets deep shadow and Yari joins her. The grass purrs under their body, tousling the locks growing at their nape. It tickles, but not uncomfortably so—they close their eyes and feel the occasional brush of their sister’s knuckles as she braids their hair. They open them and brown fingers thin into stalks of September-green; and anyway, their hair hasn’t been the proper length for braids in years.

“A beauteous day, indeed,” Yoshimitsu sings abruptly. “I thank thee for the accompaniment.”

Yari shifts onto their side, a smile gracing their dotted skin as they reach forward to hook their fingers over hers—easy to pull tight, easy to let go, and the ninja rarely does. Rolling back, feeling the ground pattern their shoulder blades and their heart pulsing in their nail beds from where the two are joined, they reply, “You’re welcome.”

#my writing #🪶👹 heaven knows your name

[panikpanikpanik]

It's a clockwork dragonfly and honestly it looks rad.

Also I've never done any cross-stitching before and got kit with hard level of difficulty because fuck me I guess.

[stclements]

#cross stitch #cross stitch pattern #dragonfly #nature #poppies #june #summer

[rebeljyn]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Last song:

I think Full Moon by The Black Ghosts? I remember listening to it today and it's stuck in my head so I'll go with that lmao also YES ITS FROM THE TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK DON'T LOOK AT ME

Currently watching:

Scavenger's Reign! GORGEOUS animation and very fun world building

Three ships:

Ooh this is hard😭

Rebelcaptain obviously no explanation needed beyond my blog's existence

Spirk bc I love how there's both the old married couple(TOS) and young just started dating couple(AOS) tropes in one ship lmao

Korrasami because I love them together they're both badasses and they just fucked off to the spirit world for a honeymoon like I wish I could do

Currently consuming:

Not currently consuming but currently waiting for my delivery of pasta with cheese sauce so I'll go with that

First ship:

Probably WonderBat because I used to watch the Justice League cartoon and they were sooo ✨FHWKHFWKJDWJJDWK✨ in that show it was GREAT I love it and ship it to this day lmao

Relationship status:

Delusionally married to Hatake Kakashi, realistically single since the day I was born👍

Last movie:

Poor Things!! Watched it yesterday in theaters with my parents and I loved it! It's definitely an uncomfortable movie to watch but that's kind if the point of it so it ended up being good anyway lmao Bella Baxter is such a wonderful character and Emma Stone deserves all the awards for her acting in this. Also the way literally all the scenes look literally like paintings is BEAUTIFUL!!

Currently working on:

Cross stitching small butterflies and a big dragonfly to put on a black jeans jacket I have! But also trying to get rhino3D without paying almost US$1k to have it😬

Tagged by @bruceewayne thank youuu💕 this was very fun

No pressure to anyone I tag on here! Also I'm not tagging 9 people sorry BDJSJD @jynjackets @underwaterporcupines @andorerso @dindjarism

#thank u for tagging me marina🫶💕 #tag games #mari just saying things