Everything must stop for a new Tiny Town!

Last Friday I was happily stitching away on Firefly Fairies when a surprise gift arrived in the mail--the new Honey of a Tiny Town by Heart in Hand Needleart. As this is one of my favorite series of designs, I promptly finished the thread I was stitching on FF and set about pulling floss and fabric for the Tiny Town. So, after a week of work Firefly Fairies looks like this:

I'm still really enjoying working on this one and I look forward to getting back to it in a week or so, but for now it's time to create a Tiny Town. I started it Friday evening but I didn't do a lot of stitching this weekend so I've only gotten this far:

The skein of Whitewash that I have that was used to stitch the house has a bit too much beige in it, so it kind of blends in with the fabric, which is PTP Crystal Legacy on 36ct linen. Instead of changing the fabric I've decided to use Snowball for the rest of the design, as it's a nice, bright white and should show up better. There's also a Honey of a Frill chart that I'll be adding into the Tiny Town as I did with the Halloween town. Speaking of which, last month I received the Blooming and Halloween towns back from Faye Riggsbee, who did another beautiful job on the finishing:

And in another exciting piece of news (to me anyway!) Cecilia has another town that will be released this May, a Seaside Tiny Town:

I think this might be my favorite of the seven so far, just so cute! 

I have the Honey Frill and a few colors of floss on order that I'll need to finish the Honey town; hoping they'll arrive later this week and I can have this almost done by next Monday. The weather has been getting a bit better here in Wisconsin and I'm trying to get back into a walking routine, which always cuts into stitching time. My husband officially retired on February 28th (even though he made one more customer visit on March 1st), so he's trying to figure out what his new routine will be. We're hoping to go through 20+ years worth of stuff in the basement and garage this spring, so I'll be less productive stitching-wise for a while, but it will be nice to have a good clear out.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!