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.

 

Saying Good Bye and Welcoming a New Year.

We had the first white Christmas and many years with snow starting on Christmas Day.  We’ve and an Arctic Outflow warning working on 2 weeks so the snow was light and powdery

A few days later we had some more fall approximately 8” in total.  Today we may have more.  Our temperatures have hit record lows during this season.  Often as low as -2C which is extreme for my part of Canada,

There’s ice everywhere from our courtyard water feature.

To the Fraser River when I took these pictures the tide was coming pushing the ice to the east.  The sounds were amazing to hear.

In several places it jammed up against the dock.

Huge thick pieces of ice shifting and moving.

The second snow happened overnight and walking was difficult because of the powder snow.

No one was going very far very fast.

Last year I chose the phrase Inspiring Creativity as my word of the year.  I planned to try and blog more often but found the task not easy to do.  My January 1st post was the only one last year.  But I did post on my Instagram accounts.  One I focus on my photograph and the other my creativity thru quilting and cross stitching,  I hadn’t cross stitched in almost 20 years but have been busy with it during the COVID isolating.  Creative stitching has also kept me engaged.

I find there is a lot of disagreement and conflict in the world.  

Several years ago I found this small book and then tucked it away.  I found it a few weeks ago and decided that HARMONY would be my word for 2022.  I plan to read each quote, thought or poem for the day and help in small steps to bring harmony back into my circle of life.