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The theme this month is Spring/Rebirth.

Birds and wildflowers and one watchful cat.

Horizontal Rows as follows...(cross stitch in bold type).

Row #1: Male Evening Grosbeak, Fawn Lilies "Erythronium oregonum", The Cricket Collection, "Soft Boiled" - "Tiny Chick", The Cricket Collection, "Spring Bunnies I" - "Hens at Work", Trillium "Trillium parviflorum", Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Spring Two".

Row #2: Sam Sarah Design Studio,"Six Eggs in a Row"; Robin, The Cricket Collection, "Eggs...etera" - "Painted Egg";  Tom-Cat, Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Nest"; The Cricket Collection, "Soft Boiled" - "Tiny Bunny".

Row #3: Narcissus, "Passionale", The Cricket Collection, "Spring Bunnies I" - "Hens at Work".

Row #4: Lizzie Kate,"Egg Hunt" (kit); Shooting Stars or Rooster Bills "Dodecatheon hendersonii", The Cricket Collection, "Always Summer 3" - "The Pansy Patch",  Pileated Woodpecker, Oregon Blue Iris "Iris tenax", The Cricket Collection,"Which Came First?" (freebie);  Bleeding Heart "Dicentra formosa".

Row #5: Lizzie Kate,"A Little Easter" (kit), Plum tree, Lizzie Kate, "Samplings Easter"; Female and male American Goldfinch, Bent Creek, "Chick on an Egg" (kit).