Happy New Year!!!

Well, I rang out the old year and rang in the new year with back-to-back shifts at work, so I am only now getting around to my first post of 2012! Work coupled with the holidays meant blogging was a low priority. Though the holiday decorations are still up, I'm looking ahead to a fabulous year, especially for stitching.

The last couple weeks of 2011 saw me frantically starting a bunch of projects so I could add them to my WIPocalypse list. In my way of thinking, half the battle is getting started, so now that I have a TON of projects that are started, I'm sure to get more done, right? LOL! (I hope to update that page and links some time in the next couple of weeks.) Beyond what I actually did start, I had several others that I just didn't get any stitches in on.

I did have an official BAP start for January 1. Some of you may remember I had started Ink Circles "Tanglewood" last year, but a poor job of placement on the fabric required a restart. So, finally I have restarted it:


I also faithfully put a few stitches in my CJSC pieces for yesterday, La-D-Da "In the Garden" and today, Bent Creek "Halloween Snappers".



Here is my progress on a newly started WIP, Blackbird Designs "Rites of Spring":

And, for an end of the year Happy Dance, this was my last finish of 2011, Shakespeare's Peddler "A Weary World Rejoices" stitched one-over-two with the called for limited edition threads on some piece of random 36 ct. fabric I had in stash.

I apologize for the dark picture; it is quite lovely in real life and better light. I really like it and I'm really beginning to love stitching one-over-two on higher count fabrics.

Last, but not least, a gift to myself at the end of the year, my newest kitty, Eowyn.


Isn't she beautiful??? Our resident princesses, Amber and Panther, are not too happy right now, although I think they would adjust a lot better if Eowyn did not want to play chase with them.

I do have some other starts planned, because I didn't stitch very many charity squares last year and I would like to do a couple exchanges. But those will be smaller things, so I feel quite sure I can get them squeezed in.

I wish everyone a Happy Stitchy New Year!