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Stitch-A-Thon Progress

I noticed the other day that even though it was cold, I could smell spring in the air.

However, this morning I woke up to a loud konk that in my dreamy state sounded like a snow plow. I was quite distraught to think it might have snowed over night and that is how I would welcome the first day of spring, but to my delight when I opened the shade I saw that there was no new snow, the sun was shining brightly, and the temperature is predicted to be about 12 degrees Celsius (53 Fahrenheit) today. Fantastic! That left-over snow should be melting away soon because spring is definitely on its way! (And that konk I heard… the cats knocked the shampoo bottle off the bathtub ledge.)

And what better way to celebrate the first day of spring than with progress pictures of my March Stitch-a-Thon entry “Celtic Spring?” I am posting both a before and after picture so you can see how much I got done during my nine and half hour marathon. (Yes, I said 9 ½ hours!) Talk about smokin’!
As you can see, I opted to stitch Mae’s bouquet yesterday instead of her hair. I did this because I was slightly concerned that I hadn’t cut my fabric wide enough: There is still some stitching to do to the left of the bouquet, but I am pretty confident that there will be enough room now.

Before I stitched the bouquet, I considered giving her pink flowers instead of yellow. However, I decided against it because there is no other pink in the piece and I wasn’t sure I would be happy with the results. Personally I don’t care too much for yellow roses, but I think they work well with the piece as a whole.

I must say, every time I have a piece that I have to do a flower bouquet like this one I hate the way my back turns out! There are so many little blocks of color and confetti stitches that no matter how I go about it my back turns out messier than I like. Oh well, at least the back is neat on the other sections.

I won’t be working on Mae again until next weekend, so it gives me some time to think about her face: Specifically, I was thinking of stitching it over one. Has anyone stitched the face of the Celtic Ladies over one? Would you recommend it?

So I guess that is about it for the weekend report. Originally I planned to do the finishing on my Spring Exchange and then work some on “Catch the Wind” today, but with this weather I may end up going up to the flower shop and buying some pansies to plant in my window box instead!