Mon TUSAL en Français

Bonjour!  Don't worry, I'm not going to do the entire post in French.  Back in 2018 when I was compiling the list for the Easter Treasure Hunt I managed to miss off our dear friend Jocondine.  I apologised profusely and she suggested as penance that I should do this year's Mystery Phrase "en Français".  So that's what I did.  Now I must apologise to anyone who was totally confused and did not understand what was happening!

Fortunately the majority of you managed to figure out the phrase and provide a translation too.  The phrase was:

Partir à la chasse aux oeufs

or

To go hunting for eggs

Thank you to Jocondine for the extra challenge finding a phrase this year.  I think we'll go back to English next time.  I am being very, very nice to both Leonore and Ariadne for fear they make me do a German or Greek phrase!

The next Blog Hop will be the Summer Postcard Blog Hop which lasts all summer.  I think I might make that one an International Theme this year.  Watch this space!

And now it's TUSAL time, the Totally Useless SAL where we all show our ORTS and link-up on Daffycat's blog.

Here is my TUSAL jar with my current project:

You can see my spooky conversion of Lavender & Lace's Enchanted Alphabet in the photo.  I completed the lettering last year so I'm adding different motifs throughout this year.  This weekend I added four pumpkins from a Just Nan design - two in the W, one in the P (most appropriate)

and one gourd-like pumpkin on the I

stitched on 32 count Murano in Tigerlily by Sparklies

I'm thinking of Ghosts for next month.  There's a lot of places a ghost can pop out of.

Finally, because it's May that means it's Stitch Maynia.  This project took the idea from the DUCJC and March Madness of new starts and went with a start for each day in May.  Last year I started 31 Just Nan Smalls to go with the batch I had already started for March Madness in 2017.  I have finally finished all the 2017 starts and I'm currently stitched Day 1 from 2018 so this year I decided to stitch on the same design I started last year for each day.  So here are the first five designs:

I'm doing just one strand per day on each one.  These are used as travel projects, lunchtime projects and crafty coffee morning projects with the goal of one finish per month.  Once Butterfly Lace is complete I will pick up the Butterfly Needlebook and work through that one.