Stitching and Spring

 I finished The Shepherd's Song by Plum Street Samplers on the last day of February. It is so pretty. My photography skills do not do it justice at all. 

I love all the pinks and the little sheep. 

I did make a change near the end of stitching. 

The pattern called for over one stitching - "This is wrought by me. (and then your name.)" I will show you the pattern and then what I chose to do.

It is not that I didn't like the pattern, because I did. I think it makes it look like a sampler with the name and all, but as I started it I wasn't feeling it. It seemed so big.  

I chose to do another little baby sheep instead. I am pleased with the change.

Another close up.

I had a lot of stitching time in February with the surgery, so I finished this much sooner than expected. I can't wait to take it to the framer's later this week and add it to the sampler wall in the Auburn house. 

I will stitch my March Christmas ornament next and then choose something else from my starts to finish. 

Spring is here now. I am enjoying it immensely. I wrote this a couple of weeks ago. 

I and starting a new movement. New Year’s Day should begin on March 1st. 

Author, Gladys Taber, once wrote, “The calendar may insist on putting New Year’s in January, but for me April is the true beginning of the yearly cycle. Now everything is new, everything is young.” Mrs. Taber was on the right track, but she lived above the Mason Dixon Line and things down here in the Deep South start a little early on that budding path. 

I have always thought New Year’s should match what is happening in nature. Everything is budding here in March and starting to green and bloom, so it just seems appropriate that would be a great new beginning for the year. Shoot, New Year’s Day hasn’t been nearly as much fun as it once was, when it truly meant all the good bowl games were being played.

I could choose March 20th for New Year’s, but seeing as how I think spring begins on March 1st, I choose to  align with the meteorological calendar for spring and summer and the astrological clock for fall and winter. I like spring and summer and feel both come a little earlier here in my neck of the woods. However, fall doesn’t even arrive until the end of October so we can just agree with the equinox dates on those seasons. If I am made Queen, this is what we will do. I love getting a new calendar each year, so just imagine the fun it would be to start a new one in March.

Who wants to join me in this new way of thinking?

A little humor for you. I am sure not everyone agrees with me.

Happy Stitching and Gardening, 

Sandy