Happy New Year - Looking Forward to a New Year of Stitching!

 Are we all ready for a 2026 pack full with fabric, threads and lots and lots of new, exciting charts?

I know many stitchers' seem to have a detailed plan for the year ahead and most years I’m the same to a certain extent, but for some reason, this year I’ve no idea what I want to do.

I have one or two fully kitted projects ready to go and several that have either fabric or thread as well as quite a lot of charts waiting too, so I suppose I should concentrate on getting some of those done, rather than buying more.

I think that's the way I'll go but don't hold me to that because having said that, I’ll be poised over my lap top come February, ready to order this years’ Holiday Countdown from Evertote, but that just has to be done, doesn’t it!

I’ve started the New Year still stitching ‘Christmas’.

‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ from Historische Stickmuster was my Christmas Day new start.

I’ve made some good progress on it since then but it’s not been plain sailing. I don’t know if it’s the Aida fabric that I’ve already said I didn’t like stitching on, or the silk threads, but I had to frog on this so many times.

My first new start of the new year is still 'Christmas' and will be what I am stitching in place of the 12 in26 Christmas Ornament Sal for this year.

My 7 foot Christmas tree is already full and there’s no room in my small ground floor flat for another one, so I don't really have anywhere else to hang more ornaments.

I still wanted to take part in the sal in some way though, because I enjoyed stitching a small piece each month, so I decided that I would stitch Bothy Threads ’12 Days of Christmas’ instead.

 stitching one of the 12 panels each month.  

My hash tag will be 12 in 26 not a Christmas ornament sal, Lol! (#12in26notachristmasornamentsal ) Please feel free to join  me over on Instagram(idratherbestitchin) if you feel the urge.

So, on the first day of Christmas my truelove gave to me………

A Partridge in a Pear Tree

My final new start this month was definitely unplanned.

I unexpectedly had to go away for a few days and needed something I could take with me and be able to stitch on the 3hour train journey. 

As you know I usually prefer to stitch on linen but I’m not able to do that without my light and magnifier.

Fortunately I had the ‘Coffee Shoppe', kit from Dimensions, which is stitched on 14ct Aida.

As it turned out I stitched more in my hotel room than I did on the train, but I still made a good start

There’s just one other project that I’ve stitched on so far this month, and that is the ‘Hindeloopen Strawberry’ from the ‘Quintessential Frisian Smalls’ Sal, which is getting close to a finish.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Designed – Historische Stickmuster

Fabric – 32ct unbleached Linen

Threads – Soie d’Alge silks

 

12 Days of Christmas

Designed – Bothy Threads - Kit

Fabric – 14ct Zweigart Aida - White

Threads – Standard Cotton, Pearl Cotton and Gold Thread

Coffee Shoppe

Designed – Dimensions - Kit

Fabric – 14ct Zweigart Aida - White

Threads – Standard Cotton

Quintessential Frisian Smalls Sal – Biscornu

Designed – Hindeloopen Strawberry’

Fabric – 36ct Linen -   Porcelain – Roxy Floss Co/Evertote

Threads – Roxy Floss Co – Falu Red (hand-overdyed cotton)