I haven’t yet found a ‘Ravelry’ for cross stitch. There’s Pattern Keeper, where you can store your patterns and mark which stitches have been completed, but you can’t mark when you started (or finished). That seemed to be the type of information I also found very useful in Ravelry so I started a spreadsheet.
For this project for example, I’ve got:
| Project | Dino Kisses |
| Author | MegC |
| Type | Pattern only |
| Search words | t-rex; dinosaur; kissing; heart; skeleton |
| Location | Drive |
| #stitches | 5175 |
| Purchased | 23-10-2025 |
| Date started | 26-12-2025 |
| Date finished | 07-01-2026 |
It took me two months from purchase to start but only two-ish weeks to finish the project. Pretty decent going with only three colours. I did the heart first, then the skeletons and then completed the bodies of the faT-rexes. I made two changes to the original pattern; I didn’t do one stitch on the bottom of the left foot of the right dinosaur, since it didn’t seem to belong there. On the right foot of the left dinosaur, I made the bottom toe-bean black and didn’t make it stick out below. I really like how they turned out, but endless black did become a little bit of a chore.