Category Archives: Cross-Stitch

Cabin Upgrade

Posted on 2025-12-30 by Holly

When I booked this trip – which was when it was first released – I looked at the deck plan, looked at prices, looked at the ship size and decided that Deck 3 was where I wanted to be. Especially … Continue reading →

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Zeroing out

Posted on 2025-12-09 by Holly

I finished today with zeroing out 11 more colors, just leaving me five. Of course, those are ones with a fair number of stitches considering that the Menorah is complete and I “only” have the background squares to finish. In … Continue reading →

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84%

Posted on 2025-12-07 by Holly

Is my current status on the full coverage Menorah cross stitch. Today is the 7th. I might just have this finished before Hanukkah starts. Seven days – about 5K worth of stitches. My only challenge is going to be losing … Continue reading →

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0 dark whatever

Posted on 2025-12-06 by Holly

I can keep comforting myself with the fact that the days will not be getting any shorter after the next 2-3 weeks. The winter solstice will slide by resulting in a few extra minutes of light at each end of … Continue reading →

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The coffee train

Posted on 2025-11-18 by Holly

was started on 9 Nov and I have been making steady progress. Some days a lot of stitches, some days just a couple hundred – The pattern was on Etsy – and is being stitched on hand dyed something or … Continue reading →

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Spring Girl

Posted on 2025-11-17 by Holly

so should share her as well… same information as before. A note – if you like these patterns – buying them as they are released is a lot cheaper than waiting for the whole pattern to be published….

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Summer Girl

Posted on 2025-11-16 by Holly

This is Part 2/4 from Barbara Anna. I had started it on my most recent Panama Cruise then put it aside as I run out of a couple of colors of floss. Needing a break from both stitching coffee related … Continue reading →

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sixteen hundred stitches

Posted on 2025-11-07 by Holly

were added to this which is now about 20% complete. The cat spent most of the day either supervising me or occupying my lap. Otherwise? Four more lectures out of a Primary Care CME conference, a Grand Rounds on Medicare … Continue reading →

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And I really needed the coffee

Posted on 2025-11-05 by Holly

this morning. As well as the final about 200 stitches on this particular cross stitch. I spent a goodly portion of the day on various primary care lectures. Some were interesting, some were a bit too much on the sponsored … Continue reading →

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Can always use more coffee

Posted on 2025-11-04 by Holly

Which is why I started this little gem yesterday. Found the pattern on Etsy. Grabbed three skeins of Gentle Arts that came in some surprise box or another and a piece of 14ct from ForbiddenFiber Co. Put in a couple … Continue reading →

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Started

Posted on 2025-11-02 by Holly

And I have started. Normally I like to stitch full coverage on the diagonal. But this is a “stained glass and it might just make more sense to stitch it section by section. It also provides the opportunity to complete … Continue reading →

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It isn’t 99 bottles

Posted on 2025-10-30 by Holly

But rather a lot of cross stitching, completed but not fully finished,and  grouped ion pants hangers. There they are, out of sight and mostly out of mind. Being quiet and reserved in the upstairs back room. I went looking for … Continue reading →

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Next up

Posted on 2025-10-29 by Holly

I found this particular pattern on Etsy. It has been a significant amount of time since I have stitched a full coverage, but I just can’t resist. There are a lot of colors, Initially, it didn’t load into pattern keeper. … Continue reading →

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The New Locks – Panama Canal

Posted on 2025-10-16 by Holly

There was a lot of information provided yesterday by various people that turned out not to be exactly accurate. 1) I had asked one of the managers of the Observation Lounge if the lounge would be open early because we … Continue reading →

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YASD

Posted on 2025-10-13 by Holly

Stands for Yet another sea day. Between the storm, dock repairs and who knows what else, this was yet another day at sea. Connecting to conferences, CME awarding grand rounds and other on-line activities turned out to be not as … Continue reading →

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Best Door Signs ever

Posted on 2025-10-10 by Holly

Decorating doors is something frequent cruisers have been known to do. I haven’t bothered since I had to deal with repeated stealing of my windsock jelly fish almost 10 years ago. Since then I have seen various door decorations mostly … Continue reading →

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Not Acapulco either

Posted on 2025-10-09 by Holly

apparently Priscilla or whatever the storm has for a name is still an issue. I think it just might be Raymond following behind. In any case, the amount of wind, wave, and water being dumped from the sky caused the … Continue reading →

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Day 7 -NCL Joy

Posted on 2025-10-08 by Holly

The day number for this cruise is confusing. The ship is counting from Seattle. Those of us who boarded in San Francisco are counting from there. The caveat being that we did an overnight in port so actually didn’t sail … Continue reading →

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Yes, rougher seas

Posted on 2025-10-07 by Holly

It was pretty obviously by partway through the afternoon that the seas were getting a bit more “vigorous” as the barf bags were out prominently on every stairway landing.  From my point of view it wasn’t much, but then, I … Continue reading →

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Itinerary change

Posted on 2025-10-06 by Holly

We were informed that a course change was going to be necessary. A storm that was forming off the coast of Baja was potentially an incipient hurricane. So, considering the weather, distances, & the fact that Cabo is a tender … Continue reading →

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