So much for up-to-date...

...yep that lasted about 12 hours...then it was back to business as usual. My papers are done, though. We'll see how they turned out when I get my grades back. Only 3 more weeks until the end of this semester. Woohoo!

Of course all that blog reading that I did do fueled a big round of start-itis...mostly for small projects. Here are some new starts...

I do have to mention that the Bent Creek Baby Globe chart is riddled with errors. Half of the symbols used in the charts are not the symbols used in the key. Thank goodness that 1) It is not a huge chart where these errors would spell death to the project and 2) I am now an experienced enough stitcher to be able to figure it out and/or substitute colors and not have nightmares of being ostracized by the stitching/designing community for "stitching outside the lines". LOL.

I also spent a couple hours the other night stitching a little on Celtic Spring. I had forgotten how addicting it can be to stitch on her. I put a fair amount of gold into her skirt swirls and treated myself by allowing myself to digress and work on some of the purples, too.

And remember my sob story about how I had not left myself enough room on the bottom of Quaker Christmas and so I was thoroughly discouraged and had decided to give it up and start over. And I was going to take the part that I was mostly done with and make it into the top of a tin...well, here it is. It is a belated birthday present for my best friend, Amber. It's not the greatest finishing job, as I do not have the skills of those like Vonna or Becky or Carol or Sally or Staci or Margaret or...good heavens, most of the beautiful stitching bloggers out there. I am pretty well pleased with the results, though, and I'm pretty sure she'll overlook the not-so-perfect points. Here also is a picture of the restart which will be stitched over one (and is therefore guaranteed to take a few years) on a 25ct. antique white linen with the same Crescent Colours of before (Steamed Broccoli, Cupid and Sassy Brass.) Also a little aside here, I always wondered why there were random letters and numbers scattered throughout the sampler. I thought it was silly. I didn't realize that it was all of the rest of the alphabet and numbers that were not used in the words or the date. Duh! It truly is an alphabet sampler... Like I said, silly me!

I also have a couple WIP updates for your viewing pleasure. SB Potter's Shed and L*K Love My Cat have had a few stitches put in them recently.

Well, anyhoo, I'm up-to-date now on what I can show off. Have a blessed Easter weekend.