{"id":4948,"date":"2022-01-01T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T02:55:54","slug":"happy-new-year-a-2021-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! A 2021 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2021 I had 28 finishes. It is much less than the number of finishes as 2020 (42 I think?) but most of them were a good deal more complex. And several of them were off my \u201cbucket list,\u201d<\/a> projects I deemed to be high priorities in my stitching career. I also had a good number of starts which I made good progress on, but I will talk about them in my next post. I count it a successful year. Let\u2019s look back shall we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, off the official bucket list, I finished:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Catherine Agnes by Indigo Rose<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    2) The Treasure Box by The Drawn Thread<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    3) Italian Peacocks Purse by GPA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    4) Butterfly Summer Casket Keepsake by Amy Mitten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    5) The Sampler Roll by Samplers Remembered-I will get it framed sometime…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    6) Star of Wonder by Just Nan. This one will be framed too…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    6! That’s not the 12 I was hoping for, but I’ll take it! What lovely projects I will be able to enjoy as actual objects now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I stitched 3 Blackbird Designs (Strawberry Garden, Vintage Blooms and Quaker Garden) which were all special to do because they are three of my top favorite designs of BBD and also OOP. I know I am very fortunate to be able to make these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I also kept up with my Smalls stitching with a big variety of styles and finishes. There were these 4 Mill Hill kits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2 pillows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Two hearts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    And two Smalls mounted on wood things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    And then there are the super small Smalls: a mini pin cushion, fob, pinwheel, and needle book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Finally this little half-a-needlebook (Chessie and Me) which I plan to stitch again with my other cat so I have both my cats on one needlebook. This one is my childhood cat, Minou, and I plan to stitch an orange tabby to be Kiwi, my kitty who died last year at the great age of 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Last but certainly not least are 4 framed projects which do not fit into any other category:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    When I started to write this post I only counted up 21 projects. I thought, 21 in 2021, that is a nice coincidence! But as I went through my pictures I found 7 more. I was quite surprised as I didn’t think I had managed to stitch that much! (The bigger surprise was how much was actually fully finished!) But I did, and more, and here is the evidence! Tomorrow I will show you my continuing projects for 2022. I have my work cut out for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In 2021 I had 28 finishes. It is much less than the number of finishes as 2020 (42 I think?) but most of them were a good deal more complex. And several of them were off my \u201cbucket list,\u201d projects I deemed to be high priorities in my stitching career. I also had a good number of starts which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[178,61,175,154,86,176,32,127,3,41,85,4,62,202,189,15,187,9],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary","tag-amy-mitten","tag-blackbird-designs","tag-chartmakers","tag-chessie-and-me","tag-gpa","tag-indigo-rose","tag-jbw","tag-jeannette-douglas","tag-just-nan","tag-la-d-da","tag-lizzie-kate","tag-mill-hill","tag-priscillas-pocket","tag-samplers-remembered","tag-shepherds-bush","tag-the-drawn-thread","tag-threadwork-primitives","tag-victoria-sampler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_7331.jpg?fit=1800%2C1011&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}