It's A New Year...A New Start...A New Stitching Plan?

Many parts of the United States have gotten slammed with winter storms over the past week, but not here in western Oregon.  So I begin 2011 with a stitch that exemplifies the child in me..."More Snow"...please!

I've been thinking long and hard about the 2011 Stitching Challenge:

Starting 15 projects in the first 15 days of the New Year.

I decided that would cause me to have a complete stitching melt-down - too much pressure too fast.  When I analyzed my stitching shortfalls for 2010 (and they are many), the most glaring was my lack of "large" stitching projects. 

So for 2011 I've composed a list of twelve larger projects which I hope to stitch (and complete) - one for each month of the year.  They are as follows:

January – “Winter Walk” – Knotted Tree

February – “Sweet Winter” – BrightNeedle

March – “Bouquet for March” – Cedar Hill

April – “Fair Daffodil” – Blackbird Designs

May – “Caught in the Garden” - Little by Little

June – “Bouquet for June” – Cedar Hill

July – “Free Bird” – Plum Street Samplers

August – “Quaker Bee Sampler” Chessie n’ Me

September – “Birds in the Bower” – Goode Huswife

October – “October’s Harvest” – Blackbird Designs

November – “Pumpkin Pie” – Cross Eyed Cricket

December – “Quaker Alphabet” – La-D-Da

If I have time and energy, then I will also stitch:

“Alpha Birds” – Sheepish Designs

“Another Carnation Sampler" – Elizabeth Designs

“Thirteen Owls” – Plum Street Samplers

…and finish Birds of a Feather “Alphabet Sampler”.

That's the plan anyway - we shall have to see how it plays out!

I leave with two shots of a new bird at the suet feeder.

A small female Downy Woodpecker.