It’s finally done. I’ll send the piece as-is to Kathryn and she will have it framed in Saskatoon. It makes it much easier (and safer) than sending a framed piece.

I can’t say for sure which Christmas I received this kit as a gift. But you can see from the note Kathryn enclosed this isn’t the printing of an adult. I expect it was either Christmas 1986 or 1987.

The earliest photo I can find was taken in December, 2017 – about the time I started concentrating on getting it done. I’ll do the math for you – that’s about 30 years after I received the gift!

And I really have worked hard at it ever since, but there are a lot of stitches in this piece – and a lot of colour changes.

So right back at you Kathryn – “I hope you like it!! I really do”

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

I didn’t make many things this year and the few I made took much longer than I anticipated. I’ll have to start earlier next year (haven’t I heard that before?). Click on each photo to enlarge it.

I bought kits for the snowman and the Santa many years ago on a trip to Seattle with Stacia and Ron. The Santa took the longest to make so, after one of each was done, I stuck to the snowman.

Each snowman is different, depending on where on the chart I made the mistake!

I had kits from many, many years ago that I used for my Granddaughters. On a day when we lost power for several hours I used a portion of one of the patterns to make a gift tag on a hostess gift.