Happy Friday!!
I hope you are having a nice
start to 2025. Things are slowly getting
back to normal here, despite a head cold. I started feeling punky on Monday,
but I’m feeling a little better now.
My daughter and her boyfriend came for a visit in September, and they bought a Harry Potter 1000 piece puzzle a couple of days before they returned home.
We had a very small
start on it then, so we left it on a table in the family room. We made a little
more progress when they came at Thanksgiving. And we finally finished it during
the Christmas holiday.
Santa brought them a puzzle board. It has four drawers that hold pieces and a cover to protect the puzzle when they aren't working on it. It rotates and, because it is thin and flat, it can slide under a bed for storage.
There is something in the
cross stitch community called a blessing sampler. It is said that if you begin
a sampler on January 1st and finish it by January 31st
then your needle will be “blessed” for the whole year. It’s a silly but fun thing to do.
I selected the English Rose sampler that I received in one of the mystery boxes I shared about here.
English Rose Sampler is
designed by The Proper Stitcher. I’m stitching it on 36 count linen and using
the called-for Victoria Clayton silk threads.
This is the progress I made on Wednesday.
I’ve tallied my December stitches and will include those when I put together a 2024 recap over the weekend. I also need to think about what 2025 might look like in my crafting world. What about you? Are you making any plans for the new year?
Hope you have a nice
weekend and I’ll be back soon 😊
