Birds and Bees finish

Hot off the frame on Saturday morning one completed Birds & Bees.

The last stitches went in a few minutes before midnight Friday night but I was to tired to take a pic then and far to busy on Saturday to iron it before taking a pic.

The Birds & The Bees

Carriage House Samplings

It's been such a fun stitch and I'm not quite sure why I put it down but it's done now and I'm really pleased with it wrinkles and all :)

Stitch from Stash March update

I thought I'd save my progress on Birds & Bees for this post.

I had hoped to get it finished last week but it turned out to be a very busy week and a on a couple of days I only got a few minutes in on it but it's not the end of the world that I didn't and there's always this next week

On to the reason for the post my Stitch from Stash update.

March turned out to be a boring month really, I didn't spend a penny or start anything new from stash but I did finish a couple.

February 27 - March 27

New starts from Stash =0

PHD's worked on = Happy Holidays, Winter Wingding (both finished), Birds & Bees, Thread Bear and Funky Merry Christmas

£ spent = Zero

Budget left = £54.60.  £34.60 carried forward + £20 for March

Progress

I made a lot of progress on Birds and Bees last week thanks to the chest infection and I would of made more had we not had a power cut Friday evening from 7 pmish to gone 3 am.

There's a small chance it'll be finished when it's worked on again next week but it's not set in stone and it will be done the time after that for sure.

And Winter Wingding which will be finished this weekend 

Stitch from Stash February post and IHSW

It's time to report what I have/haven't spent this month for the Stitch from Stash challenge hosted by Mel at Epic Stitching 

But first here's my progress on Birds and Bees from last week.

I'm thinking I've got maybe 3 weeks worth of stitching left so I should be done about Mid April but don't quote me on that :)

And my IHSW progress on Winter Wingding, as normal last weeks progress pic is this weekend before pic.

Apart from the border I've reached the bottom of it now

We had an exemption weekend for Nashville market and I didn't spend a penny not that I didn't want to but I resisted temptation!!

January 25 - February 26

New Starts from Stash = 2.  Happy Holidays and one I can't share yet

PHD's worked on = 4, Tree Farm, Birds & Bees, Winter Wingding and Sunflowers

PHD's finished = 2, Tree Farm and the one I can't share

£ spent = Zero

Budget left = £34.60. £14.60 from Jan and £20 for Feb

The Birds and the Bees

I've gone back to alternate weeks on projects now that Lewis is done and I've started the projects I wanted to in January.

One week I'll work on a focus project the next whatever calls loudest esp. from the new starts.

I started this last week and have gone with The Birds and the Bees as my focus project.

My starting point

The area I worked on

Overall pic

I was hoping to finish the bees off in that area but with being at my Daughters for a couple of days to look after Teejay while she had an op meant it wasn't to be but Teejay and I had a fun day while the op took place.

This evening I watched the pairs figure skating and Rosie was quite taken with the Italian pair, they were the only ones she watched

Couple of updates

First up is my progress on Santa's House.

The fabric arrived on Tuesday and I made a start the same day, progress is up to Friday night.

And CHS The Birds & The Bees.

I've decided to use this PHD as a fill in, you know when you finish the project you've been working on and still have an hour or two of stitching time available that day but don't want to get anything else out that's when this will see progress.

In Jan I filled in the tree trunk and did the bees

PHD update's

Last week I pulled out CHS' The Birds & The Bees for some long overdue attention

This is last weekend's progress on My Earth and it's out of date because I've been working on it today

This week I pulled out CCN Joyful Summer again for some long overdue attention