Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2020

Here it is, my first every participation in a Blog Hop. Jo at Serendipitous Stitching has organised a lovely Easter Activity.  Hop over to her blog and read up all about it and follow the blogs to find a message that will be hidden on each participant's blog post on Easter Friday.  

The theme is Easter or Spring, and the idea is to share pictures of such themed stitching...   Why not? I thought, I can do this..  Surely I have in my mountains of stitching something Easterish or Spring Like...    Head first into the basket of finishes I delved....  Band Sampler after Band Sampler, Cats, Snowmen, oooo I'd forgotten I'd done that, ornaments waiting to be finished into something to hang.  Cushions waiting to be finished, some specialty stitches waiting to be framed (really MUST do that soon) - surely I had something with bunnies???  Easter Eggs???  What am I do to?   Of course!  SHEEPIES !!  Sheepies are spring time.

Starting with the banner across the top - I remember stitching that in 2011 and now plan to finish this into a bolster cushion to send up to my Granddaughter, because I know she can count up to 5.

Do you like Lacy Lamb?  This deserves to be stitched into a small cushion  (stay tuned folks for all the finishes that will happen over this holiday isolated weekend)  I think it was a chart sent to me in 2011 - the Year of the Sheep.  So many sheep were stitched that year.  

I did mention band samplers - here is a group of 4 - Not sure who designed these either, but how should I finish these?  I might stitch these 4 together in this sequence for yet another cushion cover  Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter  - I don't know if they are Lizzie Kate, but I had a thing for her samplers some 10 years ago

2011 - one of my first sheepies - it is a wee thing. Dated MMXI - destined for a scissor fob or pincushion methinks - teenie sheepies

Another couple of samplers - A day in the country stitched in 2011, Black Sheep - stitched in 2008 and Home is where you hang your Quilts stitched in 2009.  All have springlike essences.  You in the northern hemisphere, must remember, we here in Australia have just hit Autumn, Spring won't be here until Halloween  - lol

Do you like this little stitch?  I think it was a freebie from Frimousse a decade ago.  I think it might have been one of my first forays into variegated thread - Needle Necessities, or as it has become, Threadworx.

I'm determined to finish this sheepie sibling bookmark this weekend and send it on to somebody!  Let me know in the comments and I'll pick a name on the 20th April to send it out.  I'll post anywhere.

Before I get onto one of the first stitches I ever did, I will share for you MY letter as part of the Treasure Hunt.   Jo allocated to me, the letter  

Go ahead and have a look at all the other blogs in the Hop, leave a comment so we know you are playing and work out the secret message.    The next blog can be found here

I"ll leave you with one of the oldest finishes I have in my basket  - a bit of Spanish Blackwork

  I first started cross stitching in 1975 at school and enjoyed it.  I remember stitching on the train, heading to work in 1981.  This pic is somewhere in between, possibly 1978 and one of my High School assessment pieces.  It had been finished into a cushion to enter the assessments, but I brought it back to just the fabric before the cat could claw it to bits.  So this bit of spanish blackwork has been sitting in my 'lets finish this soon' basket for 42 YEARS !!!!    

(can we spell P R O C R A S T I N A T I O N ???)  

Happy Easter Everybody and Enjoy your Stitching.  Looking forward to Hopping across to all the Blogs in this Treasure Hunt.