Happy Spring and Slow Sunday Stitching

 Spring arrived in north central Florida with sunny skies, clear cool air and birdsong from the early hours of dawn to my walk in the park and home to sit outside with a cup of tea and my newest hand embroidery project. 

I began stitching the Greenman with Weeks Dye Works floss in Monkey Grass 2158,  for me the greenman has always been a symbol of Spring and nature so beginning him on the Vernal Equinox seemed like a good idea.

I like using Weeks Dye Works floss for my greenman/greenwoman pieces because of the shades of green in each skein, and the names are herbs and other vegetation.  I may also use a few Gentle Arts floss.

I am also working on the Moon Flow piece by Cozy Blue, I bought the kit planning to have it stitched by today unfortunately I had a few days where I didn't feel like stitching.

I love the kits from Cozy Blue, I'm partial to Moon Phase patterns so I bought the kit and the pattern, I made this one in 2017 called Lunar Blossom I also bought the pattern and an iron on pattern to use.

I like to have a kit or two to stitch especially when the pattern is pre-printed on the fabric it takes care  of tracing the pattern.  A friend of mine suggested a company called Avlea and I bought a kit from there called Aegean Sunrise.

Here is my progress on the Moon Flow kit,  I started with the flowers and now I'm working the center leaves then I'll move on to the small flowers then the moons and the leaves on the outer rim.

The bright yellow fabric is what attracted me to the kit, I bought the pattern too so I could make it on a different background.

I'm linking my post to Kathy's Quilts https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2022/03/slow-sunday-stitching_0188912250.html

Check the link to see what other bloggers are slow stitching today and perhaps add your link to what you are slow stitching this fine Spring day.

 Here are the links for the 2 kits I mentioned Cozy Blue has an Etsy shop and a Website to shop on.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/cozyblue

https://cozybluehandmade.com/

https://www.avleaembroidery.com/

And Spring rose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And Each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast

rose from the dreams of it’s wintry rest.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art Janie Olsen