{"id":7628,"date":"2026-10-30T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:29:35","slug":"end-of-year-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"End of Year Plans!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oh my goodness, what I really need is a brain dump and 30 hours a day. I have so much to get done before the holidays, before my college son comes home, before the end of the year. And some of that is stitching goals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still for sure want to finish the Cheerful Bouquet. That is a definite goal for the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I totally got sidetracked from it for my Halloween stitching. I decided to roll with the itch to stitch Halloween because I rarely have had an interest in Halloween stitching. I was so excited though that I kitted up one of the charts I showed before…and also sorted out my conversion to overdyes of a JBW project I made a tiny start on last year (I had neglected to write what oranges were what and gave up in total confusion-now I think I\u2019m ready to proceed with it):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019d love to get one of these started and get a jump on next year but I also want to finish the last Halloween project I<\/a> am trying to cram in this month! But back to these little things\u2026even if I just get the big cat outlined it will be so easy to sit and fill it in as an on-the-go project\u2026thinking about it\u2026see why I need 30 hours in a day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the process of getting excited over Halloween, I also got excited over fall in general. I found lots of “wanna starts\u201d and they are now in my pile to kit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well we\u2019ll see what jumps out at me in the coming days. I have linen and threads all over the place at the moment just waiting to be assigned to projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here is the one I actually did kit up and it\u2019s ready to go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honestly this is probably the one I\u2019ll start simply because it\u2019s ready though I do love that JDD bouquet and I need to stitch the Plum Street cat because I already bought stuff to finish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All year I have wanted to get going on this gorgeous sampler called Abundant Table from Erica Michaels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have been kitting it bit by bit and I’m still missing 1 elusive thread that might just need to be replaced, and I finally decided on a good linen for it. This is a “must start” in November though I don’t expect to get very far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then…what season is coming? Why Christmas of course. With the several good finishes I’ve had this year, I don’t feel too guilty starting a couple other medium pieces for framing. One is Joy from Shakespeare’s Peddler. I did the conversion for this at the Attic and I am eager to see how it looks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love Theresa\u2019s Nashville release this year called Peace that goes with this one. I\u2019ve held off buying it until I show myself I\u2019ve committed to stitching Joy. But honestly they will be so lovely together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other project is Christmas Thoughts from The Drawn Thread. I\u2019ve finally gathered the threads for that one so it\u2019s ready to go as well. I always love stitching a Drawn Thread chart. They are very enjoyable stitches. If I do 2 motifs a day in December, I’ll get it done pretty quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a couple ornaments in the queue as well…including the ribbon embroidery Poinsettia Heart by Lorna Bateman that I started earlier this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What about Anna Millet? I am moving her to next year unless I catch a bug for her. Ditto for anything else bigger that I said I was going to do. I am going to focus on smalls. Now, watch me get totally distracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure I can\u2019t do all of these but I can do a little of each and that will make some happy stitching time through the end of this year. Hopefully I\u2019ll get to some finishing too, I have a little pile and there are indeed some Christmas things in there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my goodness, what I really need is a brain dump and 30 hours a day. I have so much to get done before the holidays, before my college son comes home, before the end of the year. And some of that is stitching goals! I still for sure want to finish the Cheerful Bouquet. That is a definite goal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,59],"tags":[26,127,107,15],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plans","category-wips","tag-halloween","tag-jeannette-douglas","tag-lorna-bateman","tag-the-drawn-thread"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_2026-10-28-122044.jpg?fit=364%2C364&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}