April Stitching From Stash

A little bit more spending this month than usual. I ended up ordering floss that I ran short of to complete one piece and I ordered two online charts as a pdf from The Primitive Hare and Primitive Stitchin'. As an international customer I prefer to order pdfs because this saves me considerably on shipping costs. All told the breakdown is as follows: 

Floss: $7.96
Charts:  $12.75
Total:  $20.71

Phew! Still within the monthly budget!

Over the month I made significant progress on two patterns from my stash and ended up finishing both just in time for Easter. The first is very appropriate for the season - With Thy Needle and Thread Three Tulips. This is the one on which I ran short of floss. When I started the piece I didn't figure in the fact that I was using 2 strands over 32 ct rather than one over 36 ct. and that urn took a lot of floss.

I'm so glad that I finally got around to stitching this one. I love it!

The second finish was one of my final purchases in 2013 - Plum Street Samplers Love Thy Neighbor. Paulette was kind enough to design an alternate chart with the Canadian and UK spelling of neighbour.

It was the rich colours and the funky cats that attracted me to this piece. 

In addition to these stash patterns I have a two new starts, a freebie for Easter which I just didn't manage to get done in time for the holiday. It's offered by Bonny Woomer of The Nebby Needle and is called Hoppy Easter. I'm stitching it over one so it's taking me a little longer.

The second start is a Blackbird Design from my stash called Spring Tulips. I just started this one two days ago so I haven't got very far on it yet. I love tulips and there are lots of pretty pastels in this one. A perfect spring stitch! Fortunately I had all the overdyed floss in my stash.

That about sums things up for this month. I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely Easter holiday weekend. Although my family was unable to join us, we had the company of many friends for our Easter meal.
We are so blessed!