Kat (Sprouting Lupine)

@sproutinglupine.bsky.social

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cross stitch designer and amateur birder/wildlife photographer (she/her) all photos are my own unless otherwise specified https://bio.link/sproutinglupine

A cross stitch pattern on light green fabric. Yellow butterflies and flowers form a circle around the backstitched, cursive text "to be loved is to be changed". The dot over the eye and the tail of the "d" in changed are heart shaped
Several rows of framed cross stitch pieces displayed together. The pieces are all in different frames and are different sizes.
A logo with a green circle overlaid on a light brown paper texture. A monochrome drawing of a sphinx moth is in the middle with the text "sprouting lupine" wrapping around the circle with x's as the dots for the i's.
A juvenile gull with a black-tipped bill, pink legs, and brown mottling through its body, taking a small step forward while balancing with its wings slightly up but still folded.
A rectangular cross stitch pattern stitched in greens, purples, and pinks. It features a string of hearts, fuchsia flowers, lavender flowers, cyclamen flowers, and a pink orchid mantis right in the middle.
A rectangular cross stitch featuring a great horned owl with sleepy yellow-green eyes perched on a snow and berry laden juniper branch, dead brown winter leaves, and a snow berry bush, all in front of a full moon surrounded by blue backstitched stars. A row of icicles frames the top of the pattern.
Three small cross stitch pieces of pink moths finished in antique silver filigree frames. Each is stitched on the same soft pink fabric. The first piece is a vertical stack of 3 moths and the last two are moon moths with long tails on their hindwings.
A butterfly, moth, and heart themed cross stitch sampler stitched in berry pink, black, and gray threads on a soft pink fabric. The butterfly and flower motifs are interspersed with heart borders. Major motifs include a large common rose swallowtail butterfly with heart-shaped spots and backstitching details on the wings perched on a large pink peony flower, a black and gray butterfly with heart-shaped antennae, and a mostly black, clear-winged swallowtail butterfly with the numbers "2025" above it and the initials "KLH" below it.
A 3x3 grid of various finished cross stitch pieces, including a pale unicorn, a grim dog carrying a lantern, a pink luna moth with heart motifs, and a delft blue porcelain beetle. In the center is a photo of me, a smiling white woman with pink hair.
A finished cross stitch pattern featuring a small brown deer with large white antlers looking straightforward. Green vines, pink flowers, and a spiderweb hang from the antlers. Pink mushrooms and ferns grow underfoot.
Two adult red-headed woodpeckers looking at each other on a tree trunk. One is peeking out from a hole in trunk and the other is clinging to the side with a bit of food in its beak.
A black capped chickadee, a small black and white songbird, perched on a pine tree branch.
A small cross stitch sampler featuring night time insects and flowers in a palette of blue, purple, yellow, and black. It features a large dragonfly with backstitched outstretched wings, an orchid plant, a moonflower, lightning beetles, and a small colorful moth.
A small royal purple, navy blue, and teal cross stitch sampler featuring a large sphinx moth, a scarab beetle, a teal long-horned beetle, navy blue bleeding heart flowers, and purple and blue flowers and leaves.
A mini cross stitch sampler in brown and green earth tones with motifs of a swallowtail butterfly, a damselfly with backstitched wings perched on some teal mushrooms, a maidenhair fern, a rain beetle, fallen leaves, and isopods.
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring song birds on pine boughs and branches with red berries. The birds are a tufted titmouse, a black capped chickadee, and a dark eyed junco.
A small cross stitch featuring animals and algae commonly found in marine tide pools, including kelp, a hermit crab, sea stars, and small fish.
A completed cross stitch sampler stitched on a grayish blue-green fabric in yellows, lime greens, and purples. It features mint leaves and flowers, yellow cucumber beetles, a chartreuse clearwing moth, a purple bee balm flower, chamomile flowers, a lime green shield bug, and a yellow glasswing butterfly.
A small cross stitch featuring a grumpy gray tree frog sitting under a large leaf, a bright yellow mushroom, yellow birch leaves, goldenrod, and gray foggy plants
A finished cross stitch of a small yellow, orange, and pink sampler. It features an adult yellow cicada, a cicada shell on an orange black-eyed susan, pink strawberries, various pink and yellow flowers, and yellow gingko leaves.
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring a large magenta dahlia flower, a purple and black striped moth with orange hind wings, a striped potato beetle, orange berries, and an orange spotted fly agaric mushroom with a purple slug perched on top.
A mini cross stitch sampler featuring 3 moths, red berries, autumn leaves and flowers, a tiny snail and slug, and spotted mushrooms in an autumnal orange, yellow, and muted green palette.
A small cross stitch sampler stitched in reds and oranges featuring several autumn leaves, a butterfly, a moth, and 2 horned beetles.
Two mallard ducks on the water. One has their head fully submerged with their butt up in the air and the other is flapping their wings with their bill wide open. Both have female/juvenile plumage.
A large cross stitch piece featuring a cream unicorn with a green mane and long yellow horn. She is walking in a garden filled with flowers in every color, including hanging wisteria vines and blue hydrangeas. The unicorn is looking up at a large tree with fig-like leaves and a silver lantern hanging from one branch.
A finished cross stitch of a large black moth surrounded by black dried leaves. The text "like a moth to flame" is stitched underneath.