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And another month draws to a close and I got some stitching in! Mind you, it was a bit of a race for the last portions of beading on Mermaids but – I got a finish!!! My goal for the month was to finish all the stitching, but I could see the finish line and off I went.

April Goals:

• FFO the How to Train Your Dragon pieces for the swap & post (bookmark, needle book and small hoop). COMPLETED – but I kept the small hoop
• Finish all the stitching on MOTDB and get to the beading potion. SMASHED
• Start Julie’s RR piece (as that has arrived to me super early). NOT STARTED
• Plan what I will do for the #disneycraftswap (waiting for my partner to post her mosaic still). PLANS COMPLETE, STITCHING STARTED

• 15^th – Diamonds. Beading the clear beads on MOTDB. IGNORED
• 22^nd – Earth Day. Start the Mill Hill Seagull kit. COMPLETED

I also worked on a small Easter piece, the freebie Prairie Schooler chart that Kristine sent me. I chose black aida (stash!) and initially stitched it in similar colours to the original…I plan to repeat with different colours to make a basket of mini eggs.

So here’s my pieces for this month:

Question of the Month – What projects are in your UFO pile? There’s not too much in my UFO pile, to be honest. Just the one piece that I have kept the pattern & half-completed project away. I am tempted to re-start it on evenweave as it is on aida & I had become a bit of a snob but maybe I should just pull it out. If I can’t get the threads to match it might be worth a restart…apart from this, I do have Tapestry Cat at 11 years of age but as I am still working on this, I don’t think I can call it a true UFO. Just a resting WIP. And I have a few of those!

• Tapestry Cat, Dec 2006
• Toy Story Birth Sampler, Oct 2013
• Nora Corbett Arezzo, March 2014
• Mirabilia Persephone, May 2015
• Nora Corbett Reindeer, July 2015
• Mirabilia Raven Queen, Jan 2016
• Tamara blackwork, September 2016
• Lavender & Lace Celtic Winter, Dec 2016

My May goals are fairly small. I’m not going to participate in StitchMAYnia, but there are some new starts:

• Disney hoop & needlebook for new swap
• Start Julie’s round robin (if I get a finish, I will start Andromeda!)
• Finish Mill Hill Believe (about ½ done)

Lastly, I’m still in the black for Stitch From Stash. This is more good luck than management but I’ll take the win.