April's New Moon Orts

It's a new moon and time for the April TUSAL  ort report. Below are my orts for April so far,  lots of great color mostly from the two projects I am currently working on.  

I'm so glad I keep my orts in my little thread catcher (barely visible in the photo) because I needed a short piece of green to finish off part of a leaf on the greenman and I didn't want to cut a full length and split the thread when I knew I would be moving to my other project.

The blue fabric the orts are sitting on will soon be used for another spirit doll, in the meantime I need to pull out the satin floss to start the moon that is barely visible in the photo but is in the left corner of the tree.

So that concludes my Ort reporting for April, if you are curious about what a TUSAL is head on over to check it out.  https://itsdaffycat.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-totally-useless-stitch-long.html

The new Gail Pan book arrived in today's mail I pre-ordered a few months ago and can't wait to start the projects in this book.

I love the the simplicity of Gail Pan's designs and would love to just trace each pattern in the book page by page so they are ready for stitching but I have a few projects waiting in the wings and I need to complete the 2 pictured here first.

February TUSAL Report

With the new moon riding dark in the sky last night and me fighting round two of that nasty winter bug I forgot to post my Orts report yesterday,  I think the antibiotics make me loopy or maybe its just being so tired from coughing. But here they are my February orts, not as many as I would have hoped for but more than I thought I had.

My February orts are from a few small projects I stitched most of the threads are pink and red which fit the month well. There is the love birds heart which is done in variegated floss

It was from a free pattern provided by a stitch along group I am in, the red floss bits are from the redwork heart for the EGA stitch along 

I used DMC floss 498 for the redwork heart its one of the few floss colors in red I like to use when doing redwork.  The other threads are bits from the Brigid's Day piece I made and the 2018 TAST practice and crazy quilt squares I am working.  I am linking my page to It's Daffy Cat for the TUSAL report if you are curious click the link and check it out.

https://itsdaffycat.blogspot.com/2018/02/totally-useless-february.html