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I'm not Irish, but I do love green! Today seems like a good day to stitch with green, so I'll be adding leaves to the tree on my March heart design from PinkernPunkin.
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I'm not Irish, but I do love green! Today seems like a good day to stitch with green, so I'll be adding leaves to the tree on my March heart design from PinkernPunkin.
In between starting a new project - the Pieces of My Heart QAL at Melva Loves Scraps - and working on finishing up my Stay at Home Round Robin (quilt parade starts soon!) I did sew with some purple scraps this week!
Two purple Hollow 9 blocks were hand-pieced to go along with the two red ones from February. I still need to stitch some green ones, too. This is definitely going to be a long term project!
Here is my flower garden in March! It's still needing the Spring clean-up, but things are starting to grow - like tulips and grape hyacinths.
When Melva of Melva Loves Scraps announced her new QAL - Pieces of My Life - I was intrigued by the idea of sewing the story of my life into a quilt! Since I will be turning 70 this year, it feels like the right year to take on a project like this. And this week we're getting started! Check out all the details at the link above if you're curious about it, too.
I am the oldest of four - three girls and a boy - and was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1954, when my dad was in the Navy. When I was about two, my parents moved to Rochester, New York, where we lived until I graduated from high school. My parents both grew up in Iowa, where their parents were also born and lived their whole lives.
This photo is of my mom and me when I was two years old. Can you see my very curly hair?
Over the last year or so, since I started cross-stitching, I've made some of Melisa's little stamp designs that are for each season.
It's always such a pleasure to pull out the new color of the month and start digging through the scraps and stash! That's what I did this week with purple.
I decided it was time to stitch something for Spring, so when Melisa shared the March heart for her Year of Hearts, that was the perfect choice! I'm not very far along on it yet, but started with the daffodils.