I interrupted my stitching on Patricia Andrle's "Gloria" to stitch up a free design I am going to post about on my Facebook Needle Free For All group the first of April. In 2015 a German blog had a stitch along and all of the months have a chart which can be found on the above link. I really liked the small design (43x43 stitches) but not the color floss the blogger chose. The photo above is my version and the smaller photo below is the blogger's version.
I wanted to use floss colors that I felt represented April in my own opinion. "April Showers" is what I envisioned blue greys and a pop of floral colors. I chose 28 count Zweigart cashel linen in the color "ice blue" (similar to DMC 3841). "April" is stitched in the now defunct Six Strand Sweets "Berry Twist" (similar to DMC 598 & 33). The rest is stitched in Classic Colorworks "Deep Blue Sea" (similar to DMC 322/334). I had originally stitched the motif above the "P" in the Berry Twist but decided I didn't like it so I ripped it out and stitched it in the Deep Blue Sea. I fell in love with it at that point. You can see how the Palko Lap blogger stitched hers in the small photo below. I think my choices are much more appealing.
My intention is to stitch each month and then make hanging pillow ornaments, one month as the front and another as the back. I want to bind them together with a beaded edge and then each will hang off of a peg on a mug tree on my dining room table.
I stitched on this project March 13 (started at 9:00am), 15, 18 & finished at 8:15pm on the 19th of 2022. This was a wonderful project and I enjoyed stitching it. I am still pondering the colors of floss and fabric for the month of May.
