2022 at an end.

 I has promised to try and post more in 2022 but when my Mom passed away in January I just couldn’t try.

She would have been 97 in May 2022.

Here she is on her 90th birthday.

I worked on a lot of cross stitch during this year.  This is one of a trio by Bonnie Sullivan.

This is a freebie I found and it is a favourite.

I need to get this one properly into its frame.  Another freebie.

We had some snow in early January.

Stitched using silk thread.

The crocuses started showing up.

Our weeping cherry trees put on a lovely show.

I did a We Women block swap online,

I designed a stitching wallet for my Block of the Month I’m doing with Sue Spargo.  I can’t share pictures of the actuall project but it’s called TradeWinds and has a fish theme to it.

The pictures are out of order but here is the interior of it.

I got the deluxe double project bag and designed to also design a mini quilt for the front of it 

Here it is all closed up.

The exterior when fully opened.

Another of many cross stitch projects I made this year.

I also designed these crows for my mini iron caddy.  They were inspired by my friend Uschi who dyes lovely wool and is a wool pattern designer.

Each bird is stitched slightly different than the next.

I designed a crescent moon for the front using the trellis stitch.

And a sunrise for the base.

In July I headed down to Oregon and met up with an online friend Audrey aka Stitchywitch42 on Instagram.

I made a brief visit to the Oregon coast to enjoy the salt air.

Then I went to Sisters for the Outdoor Quilt show.  The first since July 2019 that I’ve attended.

Net up with Anna from the Woolie Mammoth blog along with Stitch Roadies and Quilt Roadies YouTube channels.

One of several cross stitch projects that got frowned,

A little scissor fob I made

Along with some counting pins.

Our first snow of the season showed up on November 29th!

Chinese Lantern 

I went to the Fraser River Lodge for a quilt retreat,

Stitched on my circle sampler.

I got the borders on Midnight Escape.  This was a bird block swap that I decided need the bird to be in a large brass bird cage but managing ti escape.  Hand appliquéd.

As the snow turned up early I hung my finally bound Let It Snow designed by Buttermilk Basin.

Another circle camper stitched.

We had snow for the Winter Solstice.

Stolen from Facebook doesn’t he look yummy?

The courtyard view.

So true in Vancouver,  we got about 12” down on the quay.

The water feature froze up again.

King Tides and rain caused sine flooding in Vancouver but nit here on the quay.

From my @shhdesignsquilts account on Instagram.

And fron my @shhdesigns1 account on Instagram.

Have a Safe and Happy New Year,

First finishes for 2022!

I started this project back in the summer it’s called Random Threads and is designed by Erica Michaels Designs.  I used Gloriana SIL threads one strand over 2 to stitch it.  It’s my first finished piece using silk.  I started another piece before this one but this one spoke to me a bit more,  it’s just under 6” square and I’m going to finish it as a small pillow.

 

I like to personalize my pieces by putting a moon and star somewhere in the design and as you will see the original design had a heart on it.

I also decided to add my initials and finishing date stitched 1 strand over 1 thread at the bottom.

Here is the pattern cover

My next finish in the same evening was Winter Wonderland from The Snowball by Thy Needle and Thread Brenda Gervais

I chose to stitch it on the Balsalt Splash Evenweave Lugana by Zweigart that I stitched my 3 snowmen on last year.  This also will become a pillow.

Happily Sunday was a lovely break from all the cold snow weather and before the current Atmospheric River started on Monday.  We are supposed to have at least 2 waves and up to around 100mm of rain.  Not as bad as the series we had in November,  but flooding is a possibility once again.

The ice has pretty much Ed left the river for the moment but there is a lot of debris stuck floating around.

I received a shipment from 123 Stitch on Monday and got these three patterns along with some linen for the snowman piece,  I also go some long awaited Garden Gate floss which was no where to be found for several months.  My Away We Ride was supposed to have it but I substituted another thread.

This is hopefully my next finish for 2022 I have some motifs to stitch and it will be done.  It is a free design from Plum Street Samplers call Coffin Buzz.

I saw this on Facebook the other day and couldn’t resist sharing it.