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.

Easter Cookies

Today, we were over at my SIL's place all day. We made Easter cookies. We made a lot of dough with 4 kilos of flour, 2 kilos of sugar and tons of eggs! These are some of the cookies we made. Yes, those are hard boiled eggs in the cookies. We made about 30 of the large cookies and a bunch of cutouts with the rest of the dough.

Before it was baked...

And after...
It was a great way to spend the day!