The New Year Has Begun!

Here we are already in the second day of the new year! This last year was a really hard one for everybody the world over. Now is the time to gather up our strength and look towards a better year ahead for all of us. We, as a nation need to put our trust back in God and hold tight to our faith in his son Jesus who can and will make all things new again, we need only to believe.

One of my goals for this year is to finish up some UFO's both in quilting and in cross stitch. Along with that I will also be starting my granddaughters HS graduation quilt. I have all of the fabrics for the front and should get started cutting it out in the next couple of weeks. I will have to get all of the Christmas decorations down, packed and back up to the barn first.

Another goal is, I want to try my hand at stitching on linen. Up to this point I have only stitched on Aida cloth. Sure hope I will be able to see well enough to do it. I love the look that linen gives to cross stitching. I will start out on something small and then hopefully graduate to doing my first sampler. There are so many wonderful ones out there, having a hard time deciding which one to do. Does anybody have a suggestion for me?

Sorry no pictures this time, I am having trouble with the camera on my phone. Actually this has me thinking about getting my digital camera out and start using it again. My brother left me a really nice, fancy, digital camera that I would like to be able to take a class on how to use it this spring. 

Hope you all have some goals you would like to get accomplished this year too. Goals, to me, sounds so much better than resolutions.

Continue to take care and stay safe!

Happy New Year Everyone and Happy Stitching!!

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