First Post but with "Old" Stitching

Hallo, dear blogging friends,

Traditionally I should start this first post with my planning ideas but I won't do so this year. Although I love planning a new stitching year - and I always have many ideas - I want to postpone it this year for a while. December was such a turbulent month that I didn't have the quiet times I need for planning.

But nevertheless there was stitching going on in December.

My stitching mojo is back, yes, I'm finally out of my stitching slump. And it feels so great again. What revived my motivation were two SALs, an old one and a new one.

SAL Stitching

#1 Houses of Hawk Run Hollow

You might or might not remember that my friend Margaret and I were stitching on HoHRH after we discovered that both of us had four blocks stitched. So we decided to do a stitch-a-long for the remaining blocks and got four more houses finished before we had to stop. This was my progress back then:


Last November we started again with the ninth house. We stitch on this project only on Thursdays and my new house (#1) looks like this now:


It's a huge project but still a lot of fun to stitch on it.

I became weak, really weak. I hadn't wanted to buy anything new before one of my WIPs would be finished. But there was a sale going on at my LNS and so I had to order this Hawk Run Hollow chart:


Who can say no at 25% off???? Not me, lol.

#2 Dutch Beauty

Not long ago I purchased this wonderful sampler chart after seeing the project on Marie-Christine's blog.


Marie-Christine and I stitch on it on and off during the month and at the end of the month we show each other our progress. My fabric is a cream 40 ct Newcastle linen by Zweigart and I started in the top left hand corner with the border and have moved on to the first motif, a windmill, which I finished. And I went on to some birds sitting in a tree and the lady who is placed underneath the windmill.


Another huge project but so beautiful. Huge projects seem to be my passion.

WIP Stitching

Other than that I stitched a little bit on Composition d'automne by Perrette Samouiloff and added another little motif, a duck.



New Start

Of course, it was time for another new start. And as it has been very wintry here since mid-November I chose a design with flowers - with sunflowers. I pulled out Gathering Sunflower Seeds by Diane Graebner (one of my Alphabet Club charts) and just started stitching.


Haha, I have just noticed that I show you the back of my stitching. Quite obviously I didn't see it when I took the picture. But now I just leave it as it is and apologize. When I pick it up again you will see the right side.


This is it for my first post in 2018.  I hope that you all had a great start of the new stitching year, maybe with a new project on the first of January? I think I will see a lot of new starts when I begin my next blog tour. And I'm looking forward to seeing them all.