Happy Easter and March Stitching

 I have been busy stitching but no fully finished objects. 

I started Bunny Jar on February 23rd on 18 ct Aida from Atomic Ranch (love their fabrics) color is called Morning Mist. This design is from Pinker n Punkin Quilting & Stitching: Nifty Thrifties and a Small Trifle.  I used the called for DMC threads except for one of the blues.  I had to substitute because I could not find one color. I got this metal jar from Dollar Tree but I could not figure out how I wanted to finish it.  Melisa has other Jar charts and I want to stitch them too.  

I finished stitching on February 28th.

I started Hello Spring from Primrose Cottage on 18 ct white Aida and 

used the called for DMC except I used 13 instead of 164. 

I started this one on February 29th and finished on March 3rd.

This chart by Erin Elizabeth - love her! - was in the Spring issue of Just Cross Stitch.  I subscribe to Everand which used to be Scribd and you can get this magazine and many others too.  It's also available with Kindle Unlimited. I do not know the name of this chart.  I stitched this on the same 18 ct Aida as the previous stitch so they match.  I used the same DMC 604 for the lettering and changed the white to ecru so the stitches would show.  I made a mistake and found an extra stitch in the bottom of the E and the top left is off but I was not going to frog it! It took me awhile to finish this because I was getting frustrated with the constant color changes. I finally finished on March 28th. Check out her Flosstube - Erin Elizabeth Designs - YouTube I loved #11 where she talks about getting floss organized.

I found the chart for the Eggs on the internet and made them with Sulky threads on 16 ct Fiddler's 

Cloth scrap piece. I used colors 4030, 4017, 4088 and 1046 for the border.

The hare was a photo of a stitch that was on a blog.  They said it was a Mosey 'n Me chart called Hare's To You?. I looked all over for a chart to purchase and found nothing.  Frank Bialec died in 2020 and I guess they did not continue with the craft company. It was stitched on a scrap piece of Linen and one of the new Classic Colorworks Weathervane. I started this on March 18th and finished on March 19th.

This is another design by Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting & Stitching: Carrots, Carrots and More Carrots.  She did 2 carrots for her Trifle Series.  I wanted to make a pillow so I did a row and added the word which I should have charted out because of the T.  here's a link to her chart. Carrot Trifle - An Itty Bitty Stitch- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting.JPG - Google Drive.  This is a scrap piece of Aida and I used Classic Colorworks Marmalade and DMC 720 and 3347. The letters were stitched with DMC 890. I started on March 20 and finished on March 24th.  Here's the link to the lettering - Alpha pattern #16346 | BraceletBook.

Flowers

Color is starting to pop out everywhere.

Gorgeous irises!

I have seen poppies everywhere!

I tried to grow these in my flowerbeds in PA, they died everytime!

I took this up in the mountains where we went

on Easter Monday. You can see my BIL's onion patch!

And a baby nespole tree on the right.

Some of the nespole have yellow fruit on them.

I don't know that tree so I don't know if they are ripe when yellow.

Look at all the tiny flowers in this shot!

Love Thursday

You know what I really love...(besides my family)...seeing the flowers come up out of the ground every year. I get such joy from seeing them climb up, sprout and then finally bloom.

These daffodils I planted last year around the old, huge satellite dish we used to have in the front yard. A few weeks after I planted them, The King had a friend pull the dish out of the ground and it was carted off to the recycling center. After the blooms die off I will have to move them somewhere else so we can get some grass seeds going there. You can see the dirt around the daffodils!
There have been so many new little faces blooming in our yard this week. Thank you Spring!

Spring Watch

Here's the pretty yellow blooms. They are baby daffodils.

Pretty, aren't they?

Yesterday we had rain - all day - April Showers!

This morning it was yucky and very foggy. Then around 10:30 am the sun started burning the fog off and now it is nice and sunny!

I picked up the first book by Alan Brennert (Molokai) this morning. I am axious to start it but I am currently reading Hotel Pastis by Peter Mayle.

Spring Watch

Here are recent photos of the plants that I posted about a few weeks ago. You can see a blossom starting. It won't be much longer until it pops out!

The landscape is coming back to life again. The lawns are more green than brown.

Here's the hyacinth. I cannot wait to see the pink blossoms appear!

Spring is Coming!

I noticed these sprouting up out of the ground over the weekend. Our temps have been in the high 40's/early 50's for a few days in a row, although we are back to no sun again! I believe these are jonquils or narcissus. Last year I separated some bulbs and planted them all over and now I forget where I put them!

This is a pink hyacinth leftover from Easter a few years ago. I can hardly wait to see the beautiful flowers that they will become. My trees are starting to sprout their spring growth. In a month my yard will be a wonderland again! I am tired of looking at the brown dull landscape.