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Stitching & Stash Acquisition for March & April

I didn’t do a post in March, because while I acquired some nice stash I hadn’t actually done much stitching. I’ve remedied that, thankfully, so I have some stitching and stash to show off again.

Stitching progress:

Connie Gee Designs 2018-2019 Backstitch SAL

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Using my new oval embroidery hoop for stitching this. I can’t decide if I like this hoop shape or not.


The color you get when you order a hoop is random, but I got green ~ which is kind of awesome because most of my other hoops are green too 😉

Stash acquired:

I picked up the March and April Thread of the Month packs from Ship’s Manor.

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These always make my day when they arrive in the mailbox 🙂

Unrelated but fun; I got this adorable shirt from TeeTurtle:
I'm a F***ing Unicorn shirt from TeeTurtle

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