Do you have a probllama? This is my probllama.
I haven’t crosstitched in about 20 years, but I saw an article about different reddit boards, and there was a crosstitch reddit. And on it, someone had taken this kit and changed it from No Probllama to 2020 Probllama.
I thought it was the funniest thing. I don’t know why. I guess I am pandemic traumatized. So I searched for the kit, and Amazon had it. Score. I bought it and spent my vacation swimming and probllamaing while watching TV. I had a great time.
The probllama is spoken for by Kid 2. Now I have to make something for Kid 1. Balance in all things.
I just like saying probllama. Probllama. Probllama? Probllama!
Hehehe.
kommiesmom says
We should all have such a cute probllama.
I’m glad you enjoyed your vacation.
Please let us know what you deem equal to this for Kid 1…
Claudia says
+1
Yes, that’s going to be hard to top in terms of cuteness and hilarity!
Christopher Bates says
Reaper cushions!
I still laugh at that one.
amateur hermit says
At least this probllama is cute!
necroline says
And now I have to share this treasure with you :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMYN4djSq7o
Rachel says
That’s so silly! I laughed a lot! Thank you.
Michele G says
Thank you for the Llama song. ROLF.
Becky says
That is now stuck in my head. Thanks!!! I LOVE it! llama, llama, duck. so much laughing….
Patti says
Love it! Thank you!
Dr Karen says
How did I miss this back in the day? Much respect. Thanks for sharing!
Amy says
*squeeeeee*
Watching that brings back so many memories! It also scared one of the cats right out of the room.
I’ve been eyeballing cross stitch designs lately too. I now know what I have to make.
Llama???? alpaca ????
Somebody needs to explain to the emoji people that these are not the same thing.
Flydoos says
My son’s first soccer team was the llamas. They boys picked the name because llamas could be mean but protective. Our shirts said No Probllama on them. 🙂
Jamie says
And here’s the solution for the Kid 1 gift!
Sarah T. says
I love llamas and alpacas so much that it’s the theme in my classroom –there’s even a “Save the drama for the Drama Llama” cool-down area for kids that need to take a moment. My 5th graders bring me anything and everything llama-related! ❤
Irishmadchen says
Upvote for Drama Lama for Kid1
BELEN says
OMG. I don t crosstich but you tempted me, this made me laugh.
Heather McHugh says
I love doing cross stitch! I find it to be incredibly relaxing…until the tread knots, or breaks.
Kris says
I tend to call overly dramatic people ‘drama llama’ but probllama is also nice…
Claire says
I love this! I wish I had a probllama.
Johanna J says
Funny and cute. Can’t beat that! Glad you had a good time on vacation.
Jaye says
Here’s an idea… https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Funny-Cross-Stitch-16-.jpg
Catlover says
Do you have that pattern? That would make a great Christmas gift for my granddaughter, working on her first manuscript.
Jaye says
Hello! Check out Etsy. I haven’t stitched this personally, but i got a good chuckle out of it and added it to my endless possibility pile. If you type in typewriter cross stitch, it should pop up with a pdf pattern for it. Good luck!
BrendaJ says
Very cute. Since I like alpacas I started thinking of a project that featured them. Like “Alpaca all my cares and woes.” Hmmmmm ???? ????
Terry says
I am curious if you pronounce it pro-blay-ma, or—because of the double “l”—prob-yay-ma?
Yes, I am sad and bored. I am western PA and stores have started requiring masks again.
Breann says
I was going with prob-llama. ????♀️????
Kristan Paige Hall says
Funny story. I grew up in a small and rural Texas town not far from Austin. My mom still lives there, seven miles outside of the city limits. One day, some men were unloading a llama from a truck when it escaped. The animal was meant for a private owner who enjoys exotic pets. Figuring that trying to capture it would be more trouble than it was worth, they left it alone.
The llama somehow ended up five miles away, in the area where my mom lives. The neighborhood all adopted the animal, by feeding it and giving it names. To some people, it’s Dolly (Llama… get it?). To others, she’s Tony. And for some reason, some people call her George. Wow, a Google search just showed me that some people are calling her Leroy the Lawless Llama.
She really loves to hang out at my mom’s house. There’s good grazing and a river at the back of the property. So my mom has gotten a kick out of this, and everything is now coming up llamas. I got her a llama planter for her bday in Feb.
The llama has her own Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/The-Lampasas-Llama-178029172861314/
And of course, some people are trying to make money off of poor Dolly/George/Tony/Leroy…. Oh, I started to post Amazon links, but I’m not sure if that’s ok. Let’s just say that “Lampasas Llama” turns up a lot of hits on Amazon.
Anyway! There’s your useless trivia/funny story of the day.
Donna says
Love it! Glad that you enjoyed your vacation!
Lulinke says
Cross stitch is so addictive. I follow a number of tags on Instagram – I like #crossstitchersofinstagram – lots of beautiful projects. Plus, you can buy lots of lovely flosses and fabrics and patterns ❤️. My calmest hours of the day are spent stitching ????
Alisa says
Thank you for a smile today.
Tylikcat says
Back alpaca atcha.
(I think I’d do better with an alpaca? There are a lot of very chill alpacas around here, and I like spinning alpaca.
And my new kitty, Ember Meadow Serrano, just was totally freaked out because a buck went crashing through the upper yard. Which makes me think even an alpaca might be a stretch.
Mind you, Cricket Vespers sometimes still tries to get me to take her hunting cows.)
Jean says
I went to an alpaca show at our county fairgrounds several years ago. They do a conformation show ring like the IKC/AKC dog shows. Totally amazing!! And this was a “benched” show, so you could talk to the owners and handlers and see the alpacas up close. Some of the alpacas were more social than others, allowing people to pat their necks.
There was also a craft area featuring all things alpaca – jewelry, knit wear, alpaca yarn, plush animals, ornaments, etc.
(It was a really good day at a time in my life when good days were far and few between.)
Tylikcat says
I look forward to learning about local fairs here – I know about some fiber fairs, but so many things have been on hold, and I hadn’t moved that long before things shut down. That sounds like a ton of fun.
Allan says
So because she mentioned probllama 3 times , does a Llama come out of nowhere eating colored yarn which changes its coat to the yarn it eats?
Loika says
I dabble from time to time. Luckily I had just finished this cross stitch in feb 2020!
akk says
Fun. I have been doing more freeform embroidery (easier than cross-stich on conference calls – cross-stitch needs more attention, hard to focus on call).
akk says
and another black pouch project
Brianna says
I love both of them!
Patricia Schlorke says
That is a cute cross stitch project. I use to do cross stitch a long, long time ago. I get bored and impatient with it, so I don’t do it anymore.
If you say probllama too fast, it could sound like poblano (as in chilles). 😀
Meredith Yarbrough says
I’ve been tempted many times to buy that kit because I love llamas but the “no probllama” part never resonated with me. It never occurred to me to simply drop the “no”! I may have to add to my Amazon cart now.
Jon says
Love it!
I got a hundred probllamas, but missing a dose of IA ain’t one.
Sivi says
Lol
Rachel Williams says
I made a cross-stitch for my sister a couple of years ago (copying something posted on Pinterest)…a little tree, and some empty tilled rows, and the phrase: Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it, and see that it is barren! I framed it with a rustic wooden frame and gave it to her for Christmas, and she LOVED it.
Dagmar says
Amen!
Sara B. says
I think the appeal of cross stitch is that it is so mathmatical, and if you follow the formulae, you get beautiful patterns. Triumph of logic and math. I learned some Ukrainian embroidery a long time ago … I think the difference from common crossstich is directionality? Anyway, in the interest of efficiency, I now prefer needlepoint (half the number of stitches!). Hee hee.
Judy E Schultheis says
Purest silliness. Love it!
Mags says
How about a small knit owl (Tufted by Hunter Hammersen)?
I just bought the pattern and it’s like 28 pages, 20 of which are pictures, which I find very helpful in trying something new (it’s my first tiny creature). It’s written so that it can be knit at whatever yarn weight/needle size combo you have on hand, so it doesn’t have to be tiny. Her example is 4-5 inches tall, in sock weight/ US 2 ish. There are more animals coming, next up is a Fox, but penguins, bats, and raccoons are also a possibility!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrMedSLiVB/?utm_medium=copy_link
Lidy says
Lovely stitching!
Are those French knots? I’m so jealous, I never get them right.
Tink says
I have a suggestion for Kid 1’s gift. Stich into a pillow “Ripper cushions”. 😛
Buckaroo says
????
Laura Martinez says
I support this proposal!
Matthew Smith says
+1
Sabrina says
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Cheryl M says
The Probllama is too cute! But, yes, balance MUST be kept!
Gaëlle from France says
I don’t know what that says about me but the people I like the most are all a little crazy….. rule confirmed…
Breann says
I have some funny ones saved, but they all involved profanity and I felt they might be inappropriate to post. ????
njb says
ok that’s darn cute! thanks for the midweek giggle. I’m the only person on my side of the building and I was feeling sorry for myself.
Mary says
How adorable! My kid is in England, and even tho we speak every Sunday, we haven’t seen her in about 7 years. My husband has COPD, and can’t fly. I wish I had your probllama. Oh well, everybody has something, and at least we’re all still alive. YAY!!!
Carola says
Its so cute. How about an Alpaca with Alpacalypse
Momcat says
Excellent!
mdy says
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Laura Martinez says
Demon Probllama! Where?
Wendy says
Iloma glad you enjoyed your vacation be careful with the cross stitching it is addicting every time he takes a new pattern to my copy place (I never stitch off the original pattern) he tells them this is my 204th pattern The number jumps 10-20 depending on his mood Yes it is relaxing and very addicting.
Elizabeth says
Guess I’m going to have to get this pattern, if only because I have never stitched a tiny tassel before. Backstitch across, then do a halfway puncture and cut the fringe? I must consult the crafting circle!
Carina M Paredes says
That is so cute. . .also I now have probllama stuck in my head.
Lyra says
It sounds like such a thing Arabella would say. “Oh no, Catalina’s got a probllama”
Cedar says
Love the probllama. That is the most adorable little probllama I have ever seen.
Donna A says
I feel like for llamas it would be a probllama though – two different petting zoo/city farm llamas have spat on me at various points (each did me with more with than one bit of spit too) including a selection of hard bits of carrot from the first attacker who had happily gobbled them from my hand before depositing it back in my face and across my glasses.
Several months later I got it from another llama when my youngest brother was petting it and I wasn’t even involved! So I decided llamas and I should stay apart and just greet each warily.
Then several years later while hiking there was a herd of llamas (this is becoming a bit of a thing in the UK now) and one llama decided we should NOT be near it’s field.
We respected this llama’s opinion and tried not to bother it but it followed us from behind a drystone wall the entire length of it’s field and as we climbed the stile to reach our next field we all sighed in relief. . . Until the bloody llama jumped what was now just a fence and tried to run us off it’s land! They’ve acclimatised so well I expected a sheepdog, wellies and a shotgun!
So you might think it’s no probllama but llama say that’s crazy and alpaca my bag if any come my way 😉 😀
Momcat says
OOo. So bad it’s good.
Arlenys says
Number 1000th reading HL, the more I read it, the more convinced I am, Linus is Caesar and/or the girls paternal grandpa.
He really does have your best interests at heart,” Alessandro said. “He’s invested in your survival.”
In other news after the 1000th time reading HL now I know why I’m 28 Years old and still single, it’s because there isn’t any Connor in here ????
Actually I think that may be one of the probllamas, I’ve been reading since I was like 15 and the protagonists, the male protagonists are soooo damn sexy, hot, and perfect, there have been some books with crap males but mostly they are so good, in books for teenagers they can be so sweet and while growing they become so Male. It’s dificult to compete with it.
Another one is growing up, when we are young it is so easy to go out in dates and to make Friends, but the older you get, the pickier you become, now I’m more selective and also I’m more cynical, I’ve already seen how most of my friends and even family members were/are cheated on, and how they forgive this conduct and it repeated, how they are verbally abusive between themselves and have constant discussions over anything it’s like they can’t stand each other and they continue being together, while I am single, independent, live alone and have peace. Everytime my loneliness is getting the better out of me I have just to go out with my married friends or siblings and see all of their conjugal unhappiness and it passes.
But hey if a Connor presents himself I’d give him a chance, however I’m already planning on adopting a baby next year after remodeling my apartment ???????? just in case I never meet any Connor ????????
Sorry for this longgggg and strange comment
Love♥️
Laura Register says
I have a t-shirt from teeturtle.com that says no probllama.
Mags says
Or a needle felted llama kit to match!
https://etsy.me/3mx59l3
Patti says
So cute!!!
Valerie in CA says
We need a kitten ????⬛ update!
Suzi says
a friend of mine in Boliva has sent shirts that say, “Se llama llama.”
Which is basically, “His/Her/Its name is llama”
But its super fun to say.
Patti says
Lol! Probllama is a great word! Need to figure out something with Alpaca. Hummm….
Nancy says
Funny and pretty
Nancy says
Beautiful French knots. I hate them and they hate me.
Bookworm says
Now I want to start cross-stitching again. Except I have two toddlers and no time. ????. And I’m currently
busy playing Control on my PS5. I played it about 1/3 of the wat through when it first came out, and then life happened so I never finished it. But it’s marvelous. So much detail. And I know the lead designer (which makes me feel like I know a celebrity ????????????♀️) – although I didn’t know he worked on it until after I bought the game lol. Have you played any good games lately?
Moderator R says
Hey Bookworm,
Ilona has done a couple of gaming updates lately, on Might and Magic 8 Merge and Genshin Impact 🙂 https://ilona-andrews.com/2021/entertainment-roundup/ and https://ilona-andrews.com/2021/grumpy/
Catlover says
Best part is probllama doesn’t add to budget expenditures and is good for a smile whenever it is in view!
Lynneb says
Too cute! I haven’t cross-stitched in years; makes me want to do some! Maybe some little Christmas ornaments! Glad you enjoyed your vacation. Hope the rest and relaxation refreshed your bodies and minds!
DianaInCa says
If you are looking for ideas on funny cross stitch or embroidery, do a search on Pinterest.
I really like your Llama.
Heidi says
If you want a funny no probllama book, there is a cute board book by Rosie Greening titled No Probllama about a llama who gets in trouble showing off:)
https://smile.amazon.com/No-Probllama/dp/178843269X/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=no+problama&qid=1629934888&s=books&sr=1-12
Kirsten says
Probllama!!!
Kirsten says
The call of my people.
wingednike says
That is so cute.
I’m partial to drama llama. I first heard it in Thea Harrison’s “Dragos Goes to Washington” and I love it. That and ripper cushions have a permanent place in my brain
SoCoMom says
Oh, now you’ve done it … my brain came up with “Hasta Man-llama, Baby!”
Cute llama mama stitching! Looking forward to the next part 🙂
Lisa says
If you’re sticking with the same critter, you need one that says “llamageddon” for K1.
If you’re switching critters, you need “alpacalypse”.
KC says
These puns win the internet.
reeder says
SF llama at the beach hit the news this week https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Chubby-llama-Muir-Beach-walk-John-Koene-16408845.php
Seems like the locals are used to llama playa.
Linda says
Hahaha ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? heeehe
KC says
Fun fact, did you know Llamas and Camels have a common ancestor?
Kelticat says
Another fun fact. Camels evolved in the Americas which is why they can eat creosote bushes.
Barbara Kay Swanson says
Yah~ The llama solution. So glad you enjoyed.
Sydney Girl says
Happy llama
Sad llama
Totally rad llama
Super llama
Drama llama
Big fat mama llama
Camel
My girls would not stop with the rhyming llamas…..ahhh primary school.
My vote is for the alpacaylpse….too cute.
Kate says
A neighbourhood church was known for its fabulous Christmas concerts – lots of cute kids, amazing costumes & animals, but the year they swapped the traditional donkey for a llama in lamé, I lost it!
Lucia says
I love it! Exactly my kind of humor, unfortunately not everyone around me understands it 😀 😀
Lizz D. says
This is so cute. My 5 year old has decided to be obsessed with llamas now in addition to unicorns and mermaids. We are llama crazy at our house in response. 🙂
Jill says
For Kid 1 + your consideration, I submit this piece. I don’t know whether you embroider but it brings me such joy.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/830987670/2020-dumpster-fire-18th-century-pocket?ref=shop_home_recs_1&crt=1
Hilary Angeline Zanca says
You are not alone. I saw and laughed out loud; husband came to investigate and promptly looked at me like I had grown a prehensile tail and was trying to swat him with it.
Momcat says
Making jam now. Some didn’t jell-no probllama. Food processor on the fritz, have to chop fruit. No probllama. You know it does help. hehehe.
ReadKnitSnark says
I got 99 probllamas but a stitch ain’t one?
I keep meaning to get into cross stitch. I have so many supplies, but I have yet to do a search for snarky cross stitch patterns. Because I know that’s a rabbit hole I will not climb out of soon. (Snarky speaks to my cold, dead heart.)(Positive, affirmative, sunshiny cross stitch…makes me want to stab people!)
Practical me wants an “Off with your shoes!” cross stitch at the front door, because I’m that kind of person. But I want someone to design it for me to make, and I want it more “art” than “basic.” Picky, picky…
Meanwhile, I’ll stick to knitting.
Susanna says
So cute! I am going to look for it for my daughter she would love it.
Leigh-Ayn says
Love it! We have alpacas so I always giggle at anything Llama or alpaca related. I love the meme (that i have hopefully attached!!) about going on an adventure… alpaca my bags! lol
We have a llama that lives down the road! His name is Dali Llama.
Wendy says
You make me smile????
J. says
Can Llama’s save us ALL from covid?
J. says
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/could-antibodies-found-in-llamas-help-us-to-defeat-covid-19/
Nancy says
Loved your Probllama so much I ordered the kit so I can make my own! It just arrived today! Thank you for the fun inspiration! I haven’t cross stitched in a while, so it’s going to be fun to do it again!
Lisa B (OH) says
There is just something so fun in the word “llama.” There used to be a farm near us that had a couple of llamas. My daughter and I would spend the next 10 minutes of our drive coming up with silly llama rhymes. Now I’m going to have to get two of that cross stitch llama – one for my daughter and one for me!
Amy says
I love that so much.