2016 Year in Review

Hey Blog Buddies,

Hope all of you are having a fabulous holiday season.  The end of the year prompts many people to take a look back, and since Blogger has discontinued its Slideshow gadget (I kind of miss it), I thought I'd do a quick stitchy year in review, with a minimum of blathering.

Finishes

Angles by Debbie Rowley

A Tree by Itself by Rosewood Manor

Bluebird by Charley Harper

The Song They Sang by

Carriage House Samplings

April by The Prairie Schooler

May Flip-It by Lizzie-Kate

Eastern Blue Bird by Tanja Berlin Designs

(yes, I could have used a different photo, but...)

Autumn Logs by

Needle Delights Originals

Dawn Chorus by Long Dog Samplers

Blackwork Horse-Haflinger Breeed
by Tanja Berlin Designs

Red, White and Blue by Lizzie-Kate

Summertime Roll-Up by La D Da

The Missing Piece by

Jennifer Riefenberg

A B C by The Prairie Schooler

Four Bookmarks from the

Nordic Needle 2011 Bookmark Club

Nevermore by Lizzie-Kate

Goodness and Plenty by

Plum Street Samplers

Kindred Spirits pin cube by

With my Needle

And my latest three finishes,
not seen here before:

First Star from the 2012

JCS Christmas Ornament magazine

Merry Merry by Birds of a Feather

...and, just under the wire...

D E F by The Prairie Schooler

When you look at them all together,
it seems like a lot.
I wish I could have done more.
I have so many projects in my stash
just waiting for their turn to be stitched.

I'll be back in a week or so
to show you what's on the
stitching horizon for 2017.

Have a happy and safe New Year.
Thanks, as always, for visiting.

2016 Advent Calendar

Hey Blog Buddies,

This year I'm taking part in Jo's Advent Calendar Blog Hop.  Each participant displays a holiday-themed stitched piece and answers a question.

I wanted to show you something that hasn't been on this blog before, so I chose this picture that I stitched sometime in the 90's.

This is one of Mary Engelbreit's designs.

I'm not usually fond of Santas, but I do love this piece.

The question posed to each of us was:

Decorations - do you have a favourite decoration

you must have on display every year,

maybe an heirloom, one the children made

 or something with a special story behind it?

This is the first ornament that I ever stitched,

most likely from sometime in the late 70's.

The long-and-short stitch on the dog was 

challenging to do, but I was determined to make it

because it's a basset, and at the time we had

our first of many of these lovable dogs.

There were a few years when we didn't put up a tree,

but this cutie always made an appearance somewhere.

This year it's on a door knob because my tree is a bit crowded.

A big thank you goes to Jo,

who organizes this blog hop each year.

Thanks for visiting!