My wonderful friend BGDino sent me a very fun cross stitch kit in her last package… a dinosaur! It looks exactly like her mascot so I couldn’t wait to give it a go 😀

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The contents included a cute little hoop for display as well 😀VioletLeBeaux-Dinosaur-Cross-Stitch-182_14560VioletLeBeaux-Dinosaur-Cross-Stitch-183_14561Half way through I decided that I wanted to go a slightly different direction to the pattern and give it a more pixel-art feeling with a thick black border and by following the squares rather than diagonal curves.

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So funny, the instructions were very explicit in how many threads to use warning you not to run out… I ran out anyway XD Luckily I had the exact same green in my stash already!

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My finished dinosaur!

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I added in the stripy long stitch background and I’m thinking I should totally deco the frame with some green jewels, what do you think?

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Love it! Thank you very much Dino! Such a cute little dinosaur and he’s living on my dressing table now 😀

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