Found It...

Death By Cross Stitch - Long Dog Samplers.  This is the final major area left, and the goal this round.  But it started with something needing to come out,  Nothing big.  Then I started to build up from the bottom left corner, and that circle tree thing was off, so had to come out, and now it's almost back.  It's 4 pattern pages, so it's not a quick finish.  Below is what it looked like when I picked it up again.  I stitched in the date - 2016 - ha ha ha....  I just needed to pause a moment from finding mistakes, but I'm going right back to it. 

I still need to stitch initials by the lions.  I'd really like to get to a finish on this one this round.  I'm wanting to order something... but I know I have stash.  I wanted to get the new Long Dog, but I know I already have - Life After Death - also from Long Dog, and I'd be happy to just start that.  But I want to finish this one first.  I don't like having several Long Dogs started.  I stitched Pandemic, and finished it except the back stitching in 2021, and did The Token, and finished it in 2020.  And yet this one... it's stupidly close.  I did a lot of clean up and fill in to get it to this point last time, which was in March of 2021.  I still have 4 Pot Dickie started. 

And Then I Found...

This is Long Dog Samplers - Pot 4 Dickie (altered).  I did not put a stitch into this - but isn't it lovely.  Here's the story.  I went looking for Death By Cross Stitch from Long Dog Samplers.  My pattern and the stitching at some point became separated.  They were both in the multiple stuffed 'already started' bins, just not together.  I was using a working copy, figured they would find each other at some point.  And maybe in the second year of making my list of already started stuff, I had pattern waiting for the stitching part to show up so they would be rejoined.  So I was just looking for some big black stitching Long Dog thing, to show up, it did, I shoved the pattern in with it.  Patterns and projects get separated, it happens.  But most of my stuff is fine, but out of a 100, I might have 3, maybe even 5 things that are just not quite together properly.  

I had come across a photo of my Death by Cross Stitch - and thought, it's really not that far from a finish.  A big empty area, part of a triangle, top section of a box, and initials.  I can put a dent in that, even if I don't get to a finish.  If I grab it about three times - should be done.  So I went looking for it in the 'already started' stuff.  And I find - not this - but that first photo thing - 4 Pot Dickie.  Cause I had seen just enough of some large black Long Dog, and thought - that is Death By Cross Stitch, and shoved the pattern in with it.  But Pot 4 Dickie is nearly as big... It is a band type sampler as the pattern, but I wanted a wider version, a clearer showing of the bands complete and repeating.  And the name of my blog is Just Let Me Change That - for a reason...  So I widened it, and I have no clue what I did at this point.  But it's about out of fabric - so it's actually also really close to a finish.  But I put it back...for now. 

I searched a bit more, and found the stitching for Death By Cross Stitch.  And I finished the triangle part, and I finished the top section of the box... and I started that large empty box.  That is a 4 page area.  And I am filling in one of the four pages.  I can't make heads or tails of the initial backstitch letters.  I pulled out the original pattern and still can't see it enough to even guess.  I'm considering just finding some other font in that same approximate size to stitch instead.  Once again, some of the back stitch stuff I put in - some I do not, because I stitch it, one over one, on 28 count. 
 It is something else that got dated way back in 2016, which was the pattern date, but I've dragged it out way past that.