March GG ~ A Flower Blooms

Hello, world!  Spring is trying valiantly to take over, but winter is still fighting hard.  There have been more warm days than cold so I will count that as a win!  My daffodil sprouts are now about 3" tall and I can see the line of them from the house. :D  Of course, March has really roared in like a lion and we're experiencing some crazy high winds.  I hope to stays true to the adage and goes out like a lamb!

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I worked a bit more on the Flower of the Month towel and managed to coax one of the flowers to bloom, complete with its backstitching.  More greenery has also sprouted along with the flower! The after picture is a bit dark; days of gloomy rain don't make for the greatest picture taking.  This particular flower counts for GG because the towel is a gift from TiffStitches and there's a bonus gift of floss from my husband after I discovered I was somehow missing one skein.

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Calico Crossroads - Furever

And here is giveaway number three; apologies for the somewhat dark photo! This is an older and really sweet Calico Crossroads pattern, and one of their colored ones to boot! (I'm used to their black and white kitties.)  It has the pattern for the scissors finder which would also double as a cute little pincushion.  This is a totally clean chart, apart from the thrift store sticker on the front.

Gifted Gorgeousness Giveaway Guidelines

1. Be a minion follower (upper right corner of my blog)!  Feedly, bloglovin', etc. do not count as there is no way to show it!  I am sorry; blame blogger for this one.
2. Comment and tell me you would like to be included in the drawing!
3. Open worldwide! 
4. No winning twice in a row (example: the winner of March's drawing would not be eligible for April's).
5. Closing date: March 29th, 2019 23:59 CST.

I ran into some slight drama mailing out the previous giveaway pattern.  I send just the chart in the padded envelope, no little goodies that sometimes come along with giveaways.  The clerk at the post office insisted that, though the pattern was paper (or rather, cardstock), it wasn't paperwork and so, needed to be charged at a different rate.  Something that normally costs around $3 was going to cost $15.  I guess the clerk could tell I was most confused with this sudden multiplication of shipping charges and called a manager up -- who overruled the clerk and the pattern went on its merry way for the original rate.  I get where the clerk was coming from (since it's not paperwork) but this was the first time this has ever come up in all my history of past giveaways!

I suppose one way of getting around it entirely would be to fold the patterns and put them in a regular envelope but I'd really like to avoid doing that.  Have any of you run into this weird shipping dilemma?  This only applies to shipping outside of the USA.

Kind of sparse this month!  I did manage to finish the knit hot water bottle cover and went on an adventure with a thrifted find.  Those will be tales for the next post, along with the winner announcement~  G'luck and until then!  :D/