Another year of stitching, creating, and dreaming, has come to an end

and I find myself looking over at what I  finished, and 

pondering on whether I achieved all I had hoped.

Here is a glimpse back over the things I made this past year 2017

I love to embellish clothing with hand embroidery

I love to restore lovely embroidered linens that

that have had their original embroidery worn out

I love Victorian ladies and  wanted to thread paint

one with my hand embroidery

the flowering trees are so beautiful this time of year,

I had to design and embroider my own version

I love the ladies illustrated on old dress patterns,

and made a "pattern lady" by appliqueing and 

hand embroidering her 

a lovely vintage coat made me want to hand

embroider roses on it

hand embroidered dish towels and matching hand 

crocheted dishcloths took up 2 months 

of time for making Christmas gifts and items for

my shop

a lovely vintage design that I just had to embroider

I restored and made clothing for a vintage Horsman doll

for my great niece's birthday

I started hand crocheting snowflakes in October and 

finished them November to send to friends and loved 

ones in Christmas cards

for our holiday table, I gathered our backyard pinecones and 

made miniature Christmas trees out of them 

As I put the Christmas tree away, I am already focusing my 

attention on my work box.......which is waiting........over-full of things 

I want to stitch, to paint, to create...........

not sure as to what I will start to work on this new year............

Tell me, what have you accomplished this year in your dreams and creations?

What are your dreams and plans for the new year?

Farewell, Old Year! the rustle of whose garment,

      Fragrant with memory, I still can hear:

      For all thy tender kindness and thy bounty

      I drop my thankful tribute on thy bier.

What is in store for me, brave New Year, hidden

      Beneath thy glistening robe of ice and snows?

      Are there sweet songs of birds, and breath of lilacs,

      And blushing blooms of June's scent-laden rose?...

~Julia B. Cady (d.1869), "New-Year Thoughts," in Sabbath at Home, January 1870

Wishing you a very blessed new year!