Happy New Year!

Since not everyone does the NYE Mystery SAL I am also making a separate post to wish everyone a happy New Year! I wish for all of you the best health possible, many good days and few bad days to follow the good. I also hope that you can find happiness in small things and not get thwarted by the old mean frog that makes you rip your stitches out.


I want to thank everyone for supporting me with my creativity - both by giving me the finances to be able to create via Ko-fi and PayPal and by sharing links to my posts, stitching my patterns and being supportive of others in my Facebook groups - all these things help and are much appreciated! Without all this I wouldn't be doing as much as I have been doing.

2020 is the year my blog will hit ten years of existence - on July 1st 2011 I made my very first post here, it wasn't much of a post and for a long time I mostly shared pictures of my quilting progress and recipes. I also shared stuff about my life, which I don't do as much as nothing much happens nowadays.

Initially I didn't share patterns on the blogger platform but over on Deviant Art - I haven't finished the process of moving all of my patterns here but it's something I hope to finish this year as it would be nice for everyone to be able to stitch any of my patterns without leaving my blog to do so.

When I did start sharing my patterns here people started finding me - especially in 2017 when I announced the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL which then lead to the formation of a Facebook group for it. The First NYE Mystery SAL also helped people find me and I made a fb group for that too NYE Mystery SAL.

So with all this in mind I set out to make my tenth year of blogging something spectacular and made ten SALs for people to join in with.

So thank you all - and to wrap things up I'm going to direct you to the pattern I made to go with the picture you can see at the top of the post - after all... we want to start the year off  right!

Tulips and Windmills pattern

I'll be back later today with at least two more posts - If I can squeeze it in there will be three more! In no particular order (as I don't know yet) the Temperature and Seasons SALs both start today so those posts will happen later.