A Finish and Two New Starts

I put the last stitches in Spring Sampler this afternoon...hooray!  Here is the finished product:

I love the soft colors in this sampler; they really are very spring-like to my mind.

Of course, once I finished that one, I had to start another.  I liked the Margaret Havelock reproduction that was in SANQ a few issues back, so I've had it kitted up and ready to go.

I'm stitching Margaret on 32 count linen from Lakeside; I think it's Vintage Examplar.  It's charted for AVAS silk but I'm using the DMC conversion that's provided.  The blue border is actually more of a periwinkle color and isn't as violently blue as it looks in the picture.  I'm not sure what happened with that pic.  My camera usually does a better job than that on colors.  Must have been my lighting, which wasn't optimal.

And while I was starting new things, I decided I'd start another of the Spring Samplers.  There are three of them in the same leaflet and I want to do all three of them.  This is the one I decided to go with next:

I'm using 36-count Navy Bean from Lakeside and the called-for DMC flosses.  All three samplers use the same color scheme and they complement each other well.  I was a little hesitant about stitching this sampler because that border looks like something that might just send me over the edge and, in fact, a couple of ladies in our Friday night stitch group suggested that I could do just the block with the sun in it, but I decided that I like the whole thing well enough that I can suck it up and manage the border.  I put in about a dozen stitches this afternoon, really just enough to say that I've started it.

These will probably be my stitch night projects; I expect that I'll be focusing on Sophie's Stocking on the weekends.

Wishing everyone a great week and happy stitching!