Happy New Year!

 Here we are - in 2025. I still can't wrap my head around how that happened. Where did all the time go?! I know I'm not the only one that has commented on how quickly the year has went by. Good-bye 2024. There's so much of you that I won't miss! 

I'm looking forward to this year. Plans include a No-Buy year for yarn and pretty much the same for Cross Stitch. Cross stitch won't be as strict, because I'll be needed threads, beads and possibly other supplies to finish my projects. I am enjoying the idea of working from stash. I want to complete the projects I have going and as a reward, I think I will have my large pieces framed - maybe even professionally. I've only paid for a couple of pieces in the past to be framed. Unfortunately, although I loved the finished pieces, my LNS who did a gorgeous job has since moved to another state. I've been putting off sending my things to Michaels or Hobby Lobby, just because of all the tales I've hear about the chain craft stores. I need to do some research before I do decide where to take them. 

Professionally framed by 
BushMountain Stitchery

Someone asked me a bit ago why I have so many OLD WIPS. Well,  it just sort of happened. I would be working on something that I liked for myself and then I'd get a model stitching job, and that personal project would be put aside. Then when I'd send the model back to the designer, I might have a gift that needed worked on or just not feeling like picking the set aside piece back at the moment. After a while, those pieces just piled up. Honestly - I really don't like starting a new piece. There's something about finding the right spot to start, getting the first hour of stitching correct before I start feeling it and wanting to continue. Weird, isn't it?!