Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly link up celebrating the art of hand stitching! We are interested in anything you are stitching with your very own hands including knitting, tatting, applique, hand piecing, rug making, english paper piecing, quilting, embroidery, cross stitch, and beading. 

This past week I have had tunnel vision on my 2025 Blessings Sampler start. I heard that starting a blessing sampler at the beginning of the year will bring blessings to your needle/stitching and/or to your home/family. I don't know if this folklore is true, but I fully embraced it and started stitching my sampler on New Year's Eve.

The pattern is designed by Chris on Etsy (and on Youtube) at "The Camping Stitcher". I loved working on this and finished the stitching in 11 days from start to finish. (This is actually her 2024 pattern, and she also has a new 2025 design if you are interested.)

I dug through my fabric stash and have picked out a backing and a binding to make this into a little wallhanging. I just need to buy some kind of stabilizer so I can complete it.

One of the things I thought about while stitching this sampler is what I would like to hand stitch in 2025. I have made a little list which I may or may not follow and I will share 3 of them here:

1) Do more finishing! I have so many UFO's waiting either for finishing or problem solving to more toward a finish.

2) Toward that same end - no more online purchasing!

The mess at the Canadian postal service has resulted in too much stress and wasted money for me. I have 5 outstanding deliveries (since November) that have not yet appeared.

So maybe that is a good decision to stop any further impulse buying? The order that I am saddest about is not getting a 2025 Book of Days. I ordered it from 2 different companies just in case and they have both disappeared. All of the orders are apparently "in transit" and one even says it was delivered... which it was not. 

3) Finish my "Life is Beautiful" quilt. All of the embroidery and hand quilting is done, and the blocks just need to be sewn together in quilt-as-you-go fashion, which I enjoy to do. I have brought the box out of storage and will "set myself up for success" by getting everything ready for when stitching moments happen.

Do you have any hand stitching goals for 2025? Link up your blog post below and share your projects with us!

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