Easter Treasure Hunt - A Blog Hop!

Are you ready for some hopping around~? It's time for Jo's Easter Blog Hop! Please start at her blog and hop around like the little bunny you are and collect the letters!  :D These are always a lot of fun to participate in and I just had to join the spring-themed one! It's my favorite season. I think I've made that clear in previous posts haha. I've scheduled this to appear in the wee hours of the morning here so you Over-Puddlers can have your letter without waiting until evening or perhaps the next day.

wall art courtesy Mom's old classroom!

If you're new, hi!  If you're not new, also hi!  I'm Rosey.  I talk too much (but I limit it to 2-3 times per month) and am possibly very excitable!  Cross-stitch is my first love, learned in 2009.  Crochet came next in 2014.  2015 brought knitting and a tiny dabble in tatting. I am also working on a vintage Singer 201-2 found in the trash, slowly bringing it back to life.  I don't have a lot of projects going at once in any particular hobby because that would make me very overwhelmed and possibly bored!  I like a variety. :D  Feel free to check out my finishes page (it's fairly small -- I am not a fast craftaholic) for an idea of all the eclectic things I get up to.

keeping that lemon from burning my tablecloth

Jo has kindly opened this up to crafts other than cross-stitch this year, my shoehorn contribution is a ... potholder?!  In beautiful spring (read: daffodil) colors, of course!  Several months ago, one of the ladies in our knitting group brought in a truly fabulous pattern.  It makes such a dense stitch and I affectionately know it as "fat crochet" though the correct term is single thermal crochet.  You only need to make one layer but still have enough thickness to protect your kitchen from hot pans (filled with Easter ham?). 

neat, orderly stitches

I love this colorway.  LOVE.  I went to hunt up some more so I could make an army of kitchen things only to find it discontinued!  Argh.  It's a scented yarn which I could honestly do without as the scent fades quickly, but the colors...!  They just scream spring and joy and daffodils to me!  Okay, I'll cease declaring my undying love for yarn and alienating all of you.  Although I am sure there are some of you out there who have the same feelings for floss (DMC 995). ;b  You can find the pattern here on Ravelry or directly on Kathleen's blog, here.  Her tutorial is very, very clear with a gazillion pictures.

what says spring better than daffodils? nothing, i tell ya!

It matches perfectly with the rest of my daffodil items!  :D  The cross-stitched huck towel is part of the free Flower of the Month series by Ellen Maurer-Stroh and can be found here.  It absolutely fits the spring bill but I stitched it back in September of 2010 and thought perhaps six years was a bit of a stretch for something recent haha.  The napkin is part of a set my husband's grandmother gave me.  She knows I'm looking for daffodil kitchen-y items so she watches for them!  The tea cup is part of the Franciscan Daffodil Greenhouse series -- found in a thrift store!  They hold hot cocoa during the winter and sweet, sweet iced tea in the summer.

And here's what you've all been waiting breathlessly for -- the letter!

the letter A

Thanks for stopping by! :D Your next stop is with Vickie at A Stitcher's Story so hop on over there to collect your next letter!  I hope you all have (had) a lovely Good Friday and a Happy Easter!

Technical Details

• "Lemon-Lime Potholder" freebie pattern by Kathleen Mower, found here
• Yarn: Peaches & Creme Scents in lemon-lime ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
• H (5mm) hook for chain, 4.5mm for body (I'm a tight crocheter)
• Finished size: 7.25" square (18,5cm square)
• Started: February 24, Finished: February 25, 4.5 hours.