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!