This week pattern designer CutePatternsByMaria caught my eye, her patterns are incredible. They do a variety of animals and pop culture, with gorgeous colours and lots of detail. My Gran loves Alice in Wonderland and this pattern which manages to incorporate everything Alice is one of the most unique Alice designs I've ever seen.

Stitches: 121 x 132

Size on 14 Count: 22x24cm

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I'm still watching Versailles, I'm well into season 2 now and dreading it ending. I need to finish reading some books too but the show is very, very addictive. I've named these two hummingbirds Romeo and Juliet because... reasons? They look pretty damn awesome, I was worried that the two strands of backstitch would be too bulky but it works really well.

I really, really (really) didn't want my first post to be a generic hello world post because literally no-one cares about those posts. Hi, I'm Vee and I made you a cactus pattern which you can literally right click on and save. How cool is that?

This one was fun to make, I didn't have much clue what I wanted to make other than 'cactus'. I checked some references online and started off with an oval shape that became his main body. His arms came much later - when I was stitching my family kept saying that he looked like a cucumber! For his spikes I finally chose the dark green colour along the edges of his main body but originally he has yellow backstitch spikes all over with french knots - I wanted to make him look like he had spiky flowers but realised that he looked more like he had a tropical disease. That was a full half hour of unpicking...