Stitches for 2023

Happy New Year!

Hello friends,

That’s almost it for 2022. Wasn’t 2021 just yesterday?

I’m going to spend tomorrow finishing this 2023 pattern I drew up. Stitching good wishes for the coming year. It was fun to draw these numbers, I think it’d be fun to do the rest of the numbers and maybe letters to match. Because obviously I don’t have enough projects already… :-D

Anyway, if you would like to stitch your own good wishes for 2023, the pattern is available here. I included two versions, horizontal and ‘square’. You can stitch it any way you like. I am really enjoying adding the stitches and colours at random. :-)

The two different versions. Which is your favourite version? :-)

If I have time, tomorrow I’ll also be working on my December sampler.

The shapes in the sampler are a bit of challenge to fit the stitches into. Especially stitches like battlement filling and bottensöm. But I’m enjoying the challenge! Now I just need to decide which stitches to use in the last few shapes…

I hope you have a happy new year and that 2023 will treat us all with kindness.

x Carina

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Some Things I Am Enjoying

Book: Deeper Than Indigo* by Jenny Balfour-Paul. This book sounded interesting but at first it felt a bit slow. Then I got into it and now I can barely put it down. Can very much recommend it.

Another book: Life Is Better When You Draw (It) by Koosje Koene. If you want to get into sketching this is a really inspiring book. It is not a how-to book, it won’t tell you how to draw. But it will tell you why sketching is such a lovely thing. It is full of Koosje’s wonderful sketchbook pages. One of my favourite Christmas presents. :-)

Music: Evermore by Taylor Swift.

Food: Lemon fries. Approximate recipe for two people: Mix juice of one lemon, 1-2 tbsp olive oil, 1/4 tsp garlic granules, salt & pepper in a bowl. Peel and cut 5-6 potatoes into fries. Coat the fries with the lemon & oil mix, spread on an oven tray with greaf proof paper and bake for about 30 minutes at 200°C.

I had the lemon fries with grated raw carrots mixed w a bit of lemon juice. It was a nice, fresh dinner after all the Christmas food! :-)

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