A few more squares

Managed to make a little more progress on Spring Alphabet after changing the one green color.  Still not totally thrilled with the contrast but I'm not changing it again, lol, it will do.  Love how nice and bright the colors are in this design.

Mid week

Made a little progress on Lizzie Kate's Spring Alphabet and then had to rip out one color.  I'm using a mixture of threads and since I didn't have Weeks Grasshopper I chose to use the recommended DMC.  But it was too close to the other green in the pattern so I wound up ripping it out and using a lighter shade.

One of these days I might actually get a project finished. LOL.

But in the meantime I've finally chosen which tree company to go with to remove the tree that's too close to the house and it goes bye bye on Saturday.  Can't wait!  Once its gone it will lessen the chance of any critters tap dancing across the roof.

Raining on Sunday

Sunny Saturday

Spent most of the day running around to various stores but wound up not buying very much,  Was very happy to find two more EOS lip balms I didn't have - lemon drop and strawberry are now in my collection and I think strawberry is my absolute favorite so far.

It was sunny and blue all day and warm enough that we were able to hang around outside later in the afternoon.

Dark and Stormy afternoon

It started raining late afternoon and it was really coming down for a couple hours.  Nothing but grey skies as far as the eye could see.

I remembered to pick up my renewed passport this morning, I think I was in the passport office for all of a minute.  Talk about a quick pick up!

Finally decided that 'Rain Fell' is simply not going to work on that blue fabric, I can't think of a color to change the girl's dress too and the blue it currently is just clashes with the fabric color.  I think I'll re-purpose the remaining fabric for some of the Prairie Schooler 'Bunnies' patterns.

Winterwoods

Yup, started yet another project, this time its Winterwoods by Alicia Paulson of Posie Gets Cozy blog fame.  It was quite the experience sorting out the Weeks threads for the project. Good thing I had some of the required threads in my stash, that way I was able to compare colors with the pre cut thread included in the kit and figure out which was which.

Half A Groom

This is one of the designs from the 365 Cross Stitch book I picked up on the weekend. Love the colors and love that its different from most wedding designs.  Lots of backstitching though and that's something I haven't done in ages.  Used to be you had to backstitch all the designs you worked on, but  most designers have gotten away from it in their designs now.  I used to hate it, but now I find it kind of relaxing to do.  Go figure LOL