Keep Christmas in my Heart - Finish #1 for 2026

 The "Blessing Sampler" that isn't really a sampler is finished! Started January 1 and finished January 23.

I think it turned out very pretty and I love it! I changed all the colors. The floss is all Colour & Cotton. One of my goals this year is for all the new starts, to try to change the colors and use a conversion I come up with. If there's something I want to stitch and I love the called for colors, I will use it but I want to play more with using what I want to use.

Tomorrow I will search through frames I have here and see if I can find one and, if so, get this piece framed. Even though it's Christmas, I think I may keep it up all year because who doesn't need to be reminded to keep Christ and the spirit of giving in our hearts all year?

There is something to be said for starting a project and sticking with it all the way to the end. I would like to become a monogamous stitcher but I'm not sure I have it in me. My plan for 2026 was to work on WIPS and I had planned to grab the first one that had all the "parts" together and that would be Noel Sampler BUT . . we have this much anticipated, much talked about snow storm starting any minute now (the weatherman says it's been snowing for a while but because the atmosphere is so dry, the snow isn't hitting the ground - he said something like that), I decided I wanted to stitch something snow related  . . something small.

I chose Wynter Snowman Pinkeep by AsberysEchoes on Etsy.

If I finish him and we still have snow on the ground, I'm going to stitch Square Snowman Pinkeep so they can be friends and live in my winter dough bowl. As much trouble as it is to get the dogs to go out with the snow out there, I sure would like for it to stick around long enough for me to get both of these stitched and I could end January with THREE finishes. Who am I kidding?  :)