It’s time to clean up the hanging threads of 2013 and make sure I’ve shared everything I’ve meant to share. I’ve been a neglectful blogger this year, so I have a few pictures I haven’t yet posted.
Bone Appetit from Lizzie Kate’s Halloween Thrillogy. I finished this a few days after Halloween.
Later in November, I got Pieta framed. I took a quick picture to show my father before Christmas. He was traveling for the holidays, so I’ll be sending this off to him shortly. I never did get a better picture than this. Dad joked I should take a picture with my phone. I thought it was a good suggestion. That one wasn’t better.
After I sent Wendy her ornament, I started working on ornaments for myself that I’ve wanted to stitch for a very long time–Brightneedle’s “To Thee” stockings from JCS Ornament issues. I stitched them on 28-ct. Country Cream Vintage linen. I used all DMC for each ornament.
To Thee Love, from the 2004 JCS Ornament Issue, and To Thee Hope, from the 2006 JCS Ornament Issue.
To Thee Peace from the 2003 JCS Ornament Issue, and To Thee a Very Merry from the 2008 JCS Ornament Issue.
I rotated the colors in Peace to give her a pink dress instead of pink accents. For A Very Merry, I added the year and moved around the eyelet stitches above the year to fit. I also had fun with the eyelets. Many of them are off center.
Finally, I made progress on 272 Words by Primrose Needleworks. I’m not quite done with the first page. Instead of GAST Nutmeg for the text, I’m using soot by Nina’s Threads, which I ordered from The Thread Basket.
That does it for 2013. I’m going to participate in the Sampler World Snoot Parrots SAL 2014 on Facebook, so I’ll have another WIP very soon.
Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year. Happy Stitching! 🙂
Raised by Poodles 
Beautiful stitching! I hope 2014 is an equally, if not more so, successful stitchy year for you 🙂
Love those little stockings.
May you find time to stitch loads in 2014. I must try to allocate more time to x stitch this year. I need more hours in my days.
You have accomplished so much this year! You challenge yourself to a variety of projects and the results must leave you very gratified. The Pieta, for example, is such a contrast to the bargello Symphony which you did a year or so ago, and both are wonderful achievements.
I did see that Patchwork Garden Pincushion Ball 08.13 was flawed by a fabric mischance in finishing, and I wondered if you have fixed the problem. When I went through the photos you made in progress, I saw that you had not machine stitched outside the green border stitching on each segment of the ball. It occurred to me that if you take out these two sections and (yes, it will require reembroidering at least one of the sections) machine stitch or even backstitch by hand just a thread or two outside the border, it will keep the fabric from fraying. Then you could reassemble it satisfactorily. I have had unfortunate experiences with joining pieces that are curved or have tight angles and learned that the additional tension requires additional reinforcement.
Thank you for sharing all your work.!