April Hermits - Part II

I don't know whether it is me or blogger, 

but now there is some muttering coming from me.

Anyway, on to part two of our IHSW post.

Toni forgot her stitching (!) 

so we suggested that she start the patchwork lid

for the Treasure box in BBD's Weekend booklet, 

with the delicious Blueberry Crumbcake fabrics.

She had to leave early to go to a class that, 
upon arrival at the shop,
she found had been cancelled three hours earlier.
Muttering from Toni, too.

With a couple of last minute changes,
I was able to complete BBD's Wild Garden,
also with a little muttering
that seems to accompany unstitching. 

As noted earlier,
I decided to stitch this in memory of
my Mother who passed away
one month and one day before the completion of this piece.

 OK, here is the real eye candy.

Rose has been diligently working on her Button Book

from Patrick's Woods (Sherri Jones).

The class was last month.

Rose has been busy not only stitching
but collecting buttons
from ebay and other sources.

This is an amazing piece.
And all are unique because of the buttons that 
you choose to treasure.

P.S. Some muttering from Rose's corner of the world, too!

Yes, there was a lot of murmuring and muttering going on...

you know how it is when you seem to have forgotten how to count.

All this was outweighed by sharing time and laughs and stories 

with stitching gal pals.

Happy Stitching, All!

April Hermits

It was a perfect weekend to hibernate and stitch here in northeast Ohio. 

Saturday I was a true hermit, and I put a few hours into Wild Garden.  

Sunday three stitching friends came over 

for our fourth straight month of IHSW get togethers.

We started with a quick, easy brunch.  

I made an easy little frittata with asparagus and cheese 

and put together the fresh fruit cups.

Carol made the chopped veggie salad.

Everything tasted really good.

You'd think I would have ironed the tablecloth!

Then on to the stitching.

Carol was just getting started on a Merry Cox project.

I think she told me that it is called So Dear to Thy Heart.

Not sure what was going on,
but there was some muttering coming from Carol's corner of the world!

Well, blogger is not allowing me to post photosin the order that I want, so I am going to divide this post into two sections.(I hate when that happens!)

Hermits in March

Well, I never expected the March IH&SW  to have record setting warm temperatures!  I haven't heard exactly what our high temp was today in Cleveland, but I know northern (and probably southern, too) Ohio has broken dozens of records today.

My stitching for the weekend is off to a slow start.  I hope to get some in tonight, and then I have some stitching pals coming to join me for stitching/cookout tomorrow.  That will be fun.

So I can't wait to see what everyone is working on.  So far my entire stitching time for the weekend, which isn't too much, has been devoted to BBD's Limited Edition Wild Garden.  It really is a pretty little piece.  I hope to have a lot of stitches to show you on Monday.

Happy stitching, everyone!