Update

Hi everyone! It's been a bit past a month since my last regular post so here I am for an update. I have Stitch from Stash numbers, progress, and actual FFOs! 

I've been under the weather since a week ago. Last Sunday, I was feverish and congested. Monday I went to work. Tuesday morning, I had gone grocery shopping in the morning and bought among other things a donut. As I was eating it, I realized I couldn't taste it. I have some covid home tests that the USPS sent out, and used it and it said Positive! I call work. We had Good Friday off anyway. Yesterday was my 5th day that the CDC said you should self isolate and then use a mask for another 5. I would say Tuesday and Wednesday last week were the worst. My taste came back but I'm dealing with congestion again. I still don't feel all that great. My fever broke early Thursday and it has not come back. I go back to work Tuesday wearing a mask for 3 more days. Ugh. So needless to say I've had time to FFO which you can see below. 

But first let's do Stitch from Stash 2017-2022..

Opening balance was $31.52. I had two finishes, which were Town of Halloween and Protect My Sleep that are in the March 13 post. They were worth $22. Expenses of $28 were two Nashville purchases that you'll see below, leaving me with a balance of $25.52. Not bad, I took it easy on Market!

Here's my two Market buys..

So before I got sick, I joined two SALs: Wicked Weekend Challenge and Let's Tour Hollywood. And promptly ditched them both when I got sick because my stitchy bug took flight and went missing for 5 days. I did have a new start for the Halloween SAL tho..

I will jump back on this as soon as I hit publish!

One of my WIPs was for the Tour Hollywood and that is..

I have begun stitching the other large green leaf above the crown to the right. I know I'm not going to finish this this month.

This other WIP I stitched on too for that SAL..

Holy Night, the freebie from PSS.

So barring illness flares in the next 13 days, I'm stitching 4 new starts for Hallo-Maynia on May 1st. They're small starts that were easy to kit up. I have to be mindful of Stitch From Stash.

FFOs!! Woohoo!

First up is a finish that I sewed together back in December. I had ric rac that I wanted to see onto the sides. I finally did it..

Quaker Boo by the Sampler Girl. See the ric rac?

A lesson in patience. I watched Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and it took me the whole movie to stitch those black beads onto the ric rac. Here's a picture of the backing fabric..

I stitched this matching up all the 1 orange color of the ric rac. 

Next up is..

Peek a Boo by Val's Stuff, I believe. Pillow finish, nothing fancy.

Too cute!

Next...

A freebie by LizzieKate. I thought I had twine to make a bow but didn't. So thin white ribbon for the rescue.

And then..

Litha, a freebie from the Primitive Hare. I sewed on the off white ruffled fabric lace in the middle. The side and backing fabric is a favorite of mine with two other pillows using it. The two gold topped pins match the sunflower. And finally..

a freebie by Erica Michaels made into a round flat ornament. The back fabric is a multi-green plaid. The pins are a light green. It looks better in real life 

Those are my FFOs!! I have more! I was in a cubing frame of mind but the finishes I have won't fit on the styrofoam cubes I have so back to the drawing board. 

It has been in the high 60s and mid 70s here lately, and spring has sprung. The Irises have sprung and so have the dandelions. Also growing in my front yard is some kind of monstrosity! I'll show it next post but I'm pretty sure it's a thistle. Right now it's 3 ft high. I've never had a thistle grow in my yard. Because I have to weed wack my yard, I know what's growing out there! Hopefully it'll bloom soon.

I think I'm done. I bought the 2 first seasons of Yellowstone and have binged! For some reason, dysfunctional family shows are so popular! Breaking Bad was one and so is Rescue Me with Denis Leary. I can't make myself go back and watch those last two, haha!

Alrighty, you all take care out there!!

Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2022

Happy Friday to all! It is Good Friday today and it's time for this year's blog hop post. I'm an amateur for this Easter Hop so bear with me!

This little cutie is from GoodfloraStitchwort, a Scottish cross stitch designer who sells on Etsy...

I went back to her shop to get the name 

of the pdf but it's no longer there. I remember you could either use the word 'prim' like I have on the sheep, since I lean toward primitive-style stitching, or 'spring' which would've been perfect for today! The flowers are from my yard, wildflowers. Spring has definitely sprung around here! Unfortunately, because of an unforseen illness, there are no Easter get togethers this year. 

Year's ago when I was a child, our family along with an uncle's family, had cookouts on Easter Sunday. We always had our cookouts somewhere where all us kids could just run wildly, all 7 of us. Then we'd get called back in so the moms could hide Easter eggs, real ones, the ones we had all dyed the night before. I can't even remember if there was such a thing as plastic eggs back then! Because they were real eggs, we immediately went out to hunt them! Our two families always hung out together for every holiday and every birthday. Those 3 first cousins remain our closest out of 27 some first cousins that I have.

There you go, a few memories of Easter's past.

Your letter that you've all come looking for is..

Please hop on over to this next blog..

http://apatchworkofcrafts.blogspot.com/ 

to find your the next letter!

While we're at it, why are we searching for letters? We need letters to solve the mystery phrase that Jo/Serendipitous Stitcher has created. Visit her blog at..

https://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2022/04/easter-treasure-hunt-blog-hop-2022-and.html

to get the list of participating blogs for this blog hop. I'll be checking out the list too.

Thanks for hopping by!