The Year in Review

 Happy New Year ( or tomorrow)

I thought I would recap the year.  I thought I had finished more.  I did finish a lot, started a lot, kept working on quite a bit and of course, bought a lot.  There is no real order of finishes.  I always seem to mix large projects with the smaller squirrel projects.  

Just talking about the finishes here.  I finished Rest Thy Needle by Notforgotten Farms for my sister for her birthday

I finished Teresa Kogut's Pet All the Dogs.  I really love this project.  I stitched all the dogs to commemorate  the dogs we have or had:  Huck, Jake (the big black dog our first), Buster is in a sweater, Henry Ford and FD--Future Dog

October Sampler by Threadwork Primitives was another amazing sampler.  

This really didn't take long.  I worked on this at the Stitching Bee retreat.  

I do need to see if I have a frame to fit this or at least parts, or it may be a good one to see if I can order a custom frame online.  

Heart in Hand Tom Turkey.  Super fun, super quick I finished in a door hanger pillow for Katy.  She needed a fall, not Halloween piece for a new house.  

I also made her a Christmas/Winter display from Brenda Gervais Snow Ball.  The only one I didn't do was Fa La La....my least favorite one.  I was ecstatic that the bottle brush trees went so well!

For BBDweekend SAL I finished Rosehips and Ivy in the Sewing Club book.  While digging through my stash, I have this as a kit.  I still haven't decided to frame it or make a drum out of it.  

My January 1, 2021 start was HATS Martha Dawson.  I finished it in August.  This needs to get framed.  I may have a frame around here....just got to look but, I really want to stitch more than finish.  LOL.

BBD Pins and Needles.  It was a kit from a  Dying to Stitch Club.  Katy bought her buddy Bobby a scissors for Christmas and I stitched this up in two days and completely finished it. 

I don't do stuff like this, so fast for just anyone.  I really like Bobby.   

This was a Threadworks Primitive freebie I got with the October Sampler and really liked it's kind of quirkiness.  

I completely stitched and finished La D Da's Murder of Crows.  I love La D Da, and I especially loved the name of this one.  

This was a freebie from La D Da called Love Ya.  

Just a beautiful alphabet.  

From Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly Ann Pierce Brown that I changed the colors to match some beautiful egg colors in a dozen of eggs I got from a friend.  This I do have framed.  

Little  Deeds from The Scarlet House.  Just a sweet little sampler.  This was a very lovely stitch.  

I have several works in progress that I hope to finish this this year.  I get sidetrack by shiny squirrels.  

While doing this, I have heard Betty White has passed away. Rest well Betty, I have enjoyed your body of works!!!

Happy New Year!  Here's to a better and healthy 2022!

Keep on Stitching 

Monica