Thursday, February 29, 2024

A Blooming Parade- A Look at Spring & Easter Previous Freebies

Hip Hip Hooray! It's time for a parade! 

Good afternoon, Sweeties .   I hope you do  not mind that I pop in for a 2nd visit. Are you up for a Spring parade of stitches and doodles? I sure am.  If you see any of the stitches or doodles that you are interested in, just click on the colored text and you will be taken back to the post with the chart and information. I hope you enjoy! This is a photo heavy post.) 

A Bouquet For Amy

 Mary's Basket  Strawberry Pinkeep

May Berry Basket 

Spring Stamp Sampler 



Sweet Berry Pickers Quilt

Farm Luv Doodles



Mini Bunny Sampler


Spring Checklist 

Spring 

 

Mini Tulip Sampler


Miss Flopsy  and Bunny Jar 

Miss Flopsy and Bunny Jar 


Spring Green Saltbox 




 

Love Trifle ,   St. Patty's Day Trifle ,   Sheep Trifle ,   Bunny Trifle ,     Strawberry  Picker  , May Basket ,  Love Bird Trifle ,       ,Bunny Trifle , Carrot Trifle ,  

Bee Skep Trifle ,  

Nesting Bluebird

Buford Bunny Trifle

A Basket of Spring

Pictured here are A Basket of Spring1869 Bunny HopBunny TrifleSheep Jar and of course Bunny Jar 

Beatrice Bunny 

Beatrice Bunny's Carrot Haul Stamp

Spring Stamp

Love Jar from the Mason Jar Series

Love Basket and Doodle

   Strawberry Jam Jar 

Amy Lou the Berry Picker 

 Farm Sweet Farm

Spring Pasture

Spring Farmhouse   which is modeled after my Nanny's home and Spring on the Farm

Life is Better on the Farm

Life is Better on a Farm and Little House Needleworks "Hen Party"

 1869 Spring Chick Crock.

 Bunnies, Baskets and Chickens 

This piece finished on foam board with 2 layers of batting. 

I want to thank y'all for being so kind , supportive, and encouraging . You bring me so much joy and to think that you come to my humble little home in blogland - well that means the world to me!❤🤗


In the near future, I will be posting a St. Patrick's Day Parade, a Bee Parade and a Parade of Spring Doodles and quilts.  In the meantime, if you want to see last year's parades, I will leave a list of them below. Have a great evening and..

As always...

Happy  Stitching and Quilting, y'all

Melisa
Spring is a time of plans and projects- Leo Tolstoy
Warm Spring Wishes and Bunny kisses! 
Hugs and Stitches!!!
Dedicated to my sweet Baby sister, Amy . I love you, Amo.  ❤


Other Posts That Might Strike Your Fancy!
Putting On The Green St. Patrick's Day Parade - 2023's parade of St. Patrick's Day freebies. 
Parade of Homes- Early 2024 parade of home freebies. 
Buzzin Bee Parade 2023-  An early 2023 bee freebie parade. 

Hopping on the Bunny Cart

A hoppy good day to you, sweet friends!!!   

It's official! I have gone bunny crazy!!!

 A glimpse of Waxing Moon's "Spring Trio", The Hopper House   and  Love Grows Here

  I have been itching to pull out spring decor and when I saw so many have started to decorate for spring and Easter , of course I had to jump on the bunny cart.  🐇🐰

With Thy Needle and Thread "Bunny & Co."  and  my 1869 Bunny Hop

Today I wanted to show you the cutest craft that  uses this Dollar Tree bunny. 

This sweet gal is cute as can be, but I am going to prim her up.

Lisa of Our Shabby Cottage posted this Spring craft along with other crafts on her  Youtube channel a couple of weeks ago, and I immediately became quite smitten. Using hot glue, fabrics, buttons, and lace,  I  swept up my little bunny and went to town   using Lisa's tutorial.  Soon my little bunny whom I named Flo,  received her bunny makeover .

The bunny looks quite different after her makeover. 

 Flo might not be as fancy or as cute as Lisa's bunny, but I sure enjoyed working on her.  If you are interested in watching the video  the bunny craft starts at 16.56 minutes. 

I added blush to Flo's cheeks. The whites of her eyes is scraps of cross stitch aida.

I also have a new Bunny Mini Sampler

 The other day I posted the Mini Tulip Sampler . I was so excited to  hear all of the ideas that many of you sent me for more minis. Thank you for the giving me so many fabulous suggestions and for the inspiration. So more minis will be on the way. 🤗

The little mini samplers have a lower case alphabet and a small motif. I try to keep them around the same size which is small. I am making mine into wee pin pillows to put into a dough bowl.

 I use yarn that I have in my stash as trim. I just twist it and whip stitch it to the seam around the pillow. 

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If you are interested in stitching this piece,  just grab , the images. For printing tips, refer to the post Tips for Printing which has loads of tips from my sweet friends. 

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On Tuesday , I completed this little Prairie Schooler mini. Another sweet rabbit to add to my Easter collection . I used my own floss colors which I had on hand which included DMC 898, 937, 221, 3371. 

Prairie Schooler mini finished as an ornament. 


Miss Flopsy 

Today is Embroidery Thursday. 


I am not working on a bunny stitch, but I am working on a prim spring stitchery called Spring Checklist.  I coffee dyed some cotton fabric to embroidery this little piece on. The fabric is very grungy looking. Don't you think?


A new Spring stitchery is going in the hoop. 


If you would like to stitch it , please grab the image and use for your stitching pleasure. 


 A little doodle just for you.   My doodles are hand drawn and never perfect. ❤

UPDATE: March 11, 2024. I finished piecing Spring Checklist and posted the measurements in the March 11, 2024 post.
Do you see the  empty bird's nest in the burning bush? Perhaps a birdie will move into it soon. 


I guess we better get hopping . I know you have places to go and things to do. 
A new bunny is in the works. 

 As always...

Happy quilting and stitching, y'all

Melisa

You are some bunny special!!!❤❤❤🐰🐰🐰

Hugs and Stitches !!!🤗❤🧵

Dedicated to my dear loving sister Amy . I love and miss you with all my heart, Amo!.❤🦋 ❤🦋 

Grandpa's little bench is "Bunny Central". 
Spring  is a freebie I posted last year in the March, 20, 2023 post. 


If you have the chance, pop back in after 12:00 pm, I will be posting a Spring/ Easter Parade of past stitches. 





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