Plans for the New Year and My Friends!!!!!!

I thinking making resolutions for the new year is a futile endeavor!!!!!  IMHO it's better to focus on an action.  My goal for the year is to accomplish more by making better use of my time.  I would like to spend more quality time with my family and friends, exercise more, do some things around my home I've been putting off,  and of course stitch more!!!!  A lot more this year than last.

That said I did have a few finishes last year that I still need to share!!!!!

top to bottom, left to right:  Plum Street Sampler Trim Keep, Goode Huswife Wintergreen Swan, Blackbird Designs New Love and Blackbird Designs Dear Friend

I am so blessed to have a close group of friends who all stitch too, we have stitching days, go away for weekends, text about life and all the fun things we are stitching and just generally have lots of fun!!!!!  The only problem is they are terrible enablers and when I think I have my stitching plans all worked out I get waylaid and sidetracked by their projects ;-).   

Take for instance the Scarlet Letter Year stitchalong, my projects were Elizabeth Sheffield, Mary Jones and Jenny Bean.  All samplers I would like to finish!!!!  Then Paulette dragged out her Ruth Bacheler again, Jen decided she had to start it too, and Karin got her's out, well I couldn't just not get my Ruthie back out could I???????  And since I was getting her out I decided to revamp the colors a tiny bit to suit myself!!!!!   Natalia is the most disciplined, she is waiting to start until we all work out the bugs, LOL.

Instead Natalia and I decided we would start Dona Dorothea together!!!!!  I am still patiently waiting for her to start ;-).  She's finishing another project up first.

We won't mention the Attic Needlework Ann Bower stitchalong that Jen convinced me to start and then dragged her poor mother into it too.  Okay, well maybe I texted Jen a bazillion times, begging her to play along with me but she definitely coerced invited her mother to stitch it too.  We'll save pictures of that for another post.

I tend to have serious startitis and a complete lack of follow through which has not escaped the notice of my friends!!!!  Last week I was moaning about how little I feel like I finish.  I won't name names but someone mentioned that if I would just stitch on the same piece for a week I might actually make some progress on the multitude of projects calling my name ;-).  Never one to turn down a challenge, I promptly agreed to work on Dames Boarding School for at least 7 days.  I have actually made some good progress and I am still stitching her.

With a little discipline and plenty of encouragement from my friends and fellow bloggers I hope that this year I will accomplish lots on the stitching front with several finishes!!!!!!!  I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and happy New Year and I look forward to seeing everyone's stitching in 2013 :-)!!!!!

Happy Stitches,

Katrina