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Garden Grumbles and Cross Stitch Fumbles April 2026 Blog Header

Row #1: Primitive Betty's, "Tulip Time"; Sub Rosa, "Happy Easter".

Row #2: Sub Rosa, "Welcome Spring"; Lizzie Kate, "A Little Gray Hare"; Windy Willows, "Small Blue Motif #1".

Tuesday's Birds

Design - "White Candlemas" Snowdrop

Designer - The Little Stitcher

Fabric - 28 count Natural linen

Fibers - DMC & Crescent Color - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 8 February 2012

Completed - 8 February 2012

The chart is a freebie and you can find it here.

I had help cleaning out the nesting boxes Friday evening, and by Saturday afternoon, not only were the swallows perching, they were inside the boxes investigating!

Flying High

A Red-Shouldered Hawk

Junco

Steller's Jay 

Male Lesser Goldfinch

Another one

Golden-crowned Sparrow

A gloriously colored male Purple Finch

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Pretty darned cute

Trio of Crows

American Robin

Male House Finch

Love is in the Air

Design - "February's Violet"

Chart - "Love is in the Air"

Designer - Blackbird Designs

Fabric - 28 count Amber linen

Fibers - GAST & Crescent Colours - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 18 March 2014

Completed - 27 March 2014 

Love is in the Air!

I had a pair of Flickers courting.

Lots of head-bobbing

And lots of talking

Here's a female

 

And here's a male

Back

Front

And sideways!

Also had a pair of Hairy Woodpeckers

Male

And Female

And I got to see an Acorn Woodpecker 

A female

Now I need Sapsucker and a Pileated Woodpecker.

Sunday's Hummers

Hail! Hail! The gangs all here!

The male Rufous

A male and female Anna's

The male Rufous once again

He's highly photogenic

Female Anna's

And another female Anna's

Saturday's Critters

Squirrels and deer

Not my usual western gray squirrel