Stitching Day

Today (Wednesday) was stitching day with my friend. I enjoy these days so much! When we first started getting together, we started at 10 and stitched til 4 p.m. Lately, we’ve decided we needed more time and started meeting at 9 and stitching til 4. Some days, we hardly get any stitching done but we talk about stitching non-stop. She finds the best things on Instagram and she will show me things she’s found. She even finds good recipes and other things to share. Even Chad wrote me this on FB after I got home. “You seem to be enjoying these weekly meet ups!” Yes, I really do!

Today we were talking about our stitching plans for 2025. I told her that I want a New Year’s Day start. In my mind, a New Year’s Day start should be something I work on at least a few months (who am I kidding?? YEARS!). I also want a blessing sampler project, which is something intended to be started on January 1 and completed by the end of the month. I talked about it in this post. I decided to stitch Strawberry Harvest (Keep Life Simple) and I got it finished by the end of the month.

For 2025, I think I may stitch one of these two charts:

I’m leaning more towards “Only Once”.

Then my friend and I started talking about the New Year’s Day start. She asked if I have Ann Morison and I do. She’s thought about stitching that one. I like it and it looks fairly easy and fun to stitch so I may stitch Ann Morison for the New Year’s Day start.

You know what’s really weird? This is a blog post I wrote on January 14, 2021 when I first showed Ann Morison. I also mentioned our credit card having been compromised back then. Guess what happened yesterday? Our credit card got compromised and Vince had to spend half of this morning getting that all straightened out and a new card ordered. What’s even more weird is that the card was used at Panera in FL for a delivery, probably to a hotel or something and not to someone’s real address. And, guess where my friend and I were meeting yesterday . . Panera! Not in Florida though! 🙂

Two new starts on January 1. Is that good or bad? I’m still going to spend a lot of time working on WIPs in 2025 but I will be making a few new starts – just not two every day! 🙂