And that’s that. I hadn’t anticipated when I started this in January that this year’s stitch journal might become a cloth book, but now I can’t see it as anything else.
I’ve had a few messages recently asking if my PDFs or my online course include instructions for making the cloth book. They don’t, but there’s a blog post here that might help you to see how to make something similar.
New Year’s Eve inevitably encourages reflection on the days that have gone. There have been winter-into-spring days:
Spring days:
Long summer days:
Flowery summer days:
Early autumn days:
Autumn-into-winter days:
Actually let’s linger here for a moment as I think the leaves are my favourite:
Early winter days:
And ending at the beginning, in the winter:
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and read my blog throughout the year. An especially huge thank you if you have purchased my PDFs, threads, fabrics, and online courses in the last twelve months – you have made it possible for me to make a living doing what I love. I’m enormously grateful to each and every one of you.
Tomorrow I’ll be starting on 2024, using my new template. I have no idea how it will work, but I’m looking forward to finding out. (A brief description of how I made the cover for it is here.)
I hope 2024 brings peace, joy and fulfilment to you. And – of course – some happy stitching.
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Happy New Year. I am looking forward to my first journey into daily stitching with the help of your templates and inspiration. Thank you for taking me down a new rabbit hole!
Wishing you a Peaceful New Year
thanks, Elaine. Hope you enjoy your new adventure! Just a few minutes quiet stitching each day and it’s surprising how quickly it grows. It almost makes itself. Happy new year to you too, and thanks so much for your support.
Thank you for sharing your work, I’m inspired to start a project and putting my few initial small projects into a book will help me see my progress. Wishing you a happy 2024 😊
wonderful! Enjoy the creative adventure. Happy new year to you too, Julia, and thanks so much for reading.
Brilliant, gorgeous, and inspirational as always. 2024 will be the Year of the Cloth Book for me! Thanks for your mentorship and help!
Lovely! Thanks so much, Marylee. Enjoy your adventure 🙂
I love your book and wish that I had thought of doing that in advance. This has been a fun project and I thank you for your inspiration. I’m still working on December. The holidays put me behind.
No such thing as behind, Norma 🙂 These things happen in their own time, I find. I hadn’t planned on making it a book in the beginning, it just somehow evolved into one along the way.
Thanks for all you share so generously, Karen. I’m still delighting in your class!
Wonderful. Thank you so much Tracy, that means the world to me. Happy new year to you.
I was going to say, oh this page is my favorite, but then the next page would come.
Thanks so much, k. I enjoyed stitching every page in the end – some are easier than others.
The ‘book’ turned out beautiful. I love the connection between seasons and your stitches. Happy New Year!
thanks so much; yes, I like a seasonal palette. Happy new year to you too!
Such a gorgeous thread Stitched book! I love all your unique embroidery designs 💙
thanks so much, Pam.
I look so forward to your posts each week. You and your work are great inspirations. Your dedication and diligence to your work alone is inspiring! I have made many purchases from your shop this past year and plan to make more in 2024. Thank you for sharing your world with us❤️. I wish you a happy and creative New Year🎉
Thank you so much, MaryAnne, and a huge thank you for your purchases. Your support enables me to continue doing what I love ❤️ A very happy new year to you.
Love how your book turned out! Especially like the page for June. I’m still working on my journal and it will probably take me another year to finish. But that’s ok! I can see me incorporating a ‘June page’ in one of my upcoming months. You’ve inspired me to work on a book next! Happy new year!
Wonderful! Thanks so much – enjoy your creative adventures 😊 A very happy new year to you too.
Beautiful work. I love reading your blog posts and following your stitching progress. Wishing you a happy and healthy 2024.
Fiona.
Thanks so much, Fiona. Happy new year to you.
How lovely to see the small elements combine to make such a speaking whole!
thank you – I’d been looking forward to seeing it finished.
As always, such lovely work over the year. Have a good 2024!
thanks so much, Amo. Hoping 2024 brings you some light and peace.