Happy Christmas

Now I know that Christmas Day is special whenever it falls , However, there is something about  Christmas on a Sunday that is particularly wonderful.

You have seen this stitch before, but it was not fully finished then and it feels the right one to share today

  Finished as a hanging with gold ribbon it has found its place on our wall unit.

I hope that you have had or are having a wonderful uplifting Christmas.

2022 Advent Calendar Blog Hop

 Welcome to the 2022 Advent hop as hosted by Jo at Serendipitous Stitching, if you did not arrive her from Jo's blog then you could always CLICK HERE to follow the Advent thus far and view days 1-17.

I have day 18 and the first thing to do is share my delight that the door for my day had an oriental feel quite reflective of this years discovery of the Chinese historical drama, subtitles and all. 

The second, and to be honest the first part of the hop is share my little Christmas Stitch.

This is the Robin from Lucie Heaton's Winter Wildlife collection found in The World of Cross Stitching issue 312 (Nov 2021)

I stitched on royal blue Aida and added a little Krendix blending filament here and there for some Christmas sparkle. 

Whilst the design is from over a year ago I have only finished stitching it and it is not fully and finally framed.  Rather it is peeking through a foil card saved from last year with this in mind.

In addition to sharing a Christmas Stitch, Jo poses a question each year, so far we have shared our favourite Christmas books, films, songs, decorations, traditions (you can link to previous years hops at Jo's blog or follow the Christmas labels on here to see more) and the question this year?

What is for Afters, now some participants had not come across that term for desert or pudding, however it is one quite familiar to me and what's for "afters" a familiar question.

So, Christmas Afters, well for so many years it was a Mrs Peeks Christmas pudding, usually bought the year before and having sat waiting its turn.  On one memorable occasion we bought a rather large one and when Christmas rolled around it was too large for the number of people, so it waited and it waited and..well you get the picture. By the year we got around to eating it (please note they have a best before and not a use by date) it had matured wonderfully and was amazing.

In recent years it has bee a bit more difficult as the candied peel is difficult for my mother to swallow and finding a pud with no peel and no alcohol is just very difficult.

We have tried various chocolate puddings or sticky toffee puddings , but what is available one year that we have enjoyed does not appear to be there the following year.

So I have been reading the answers to this years question with interest as so far the Afters question for this year remains in question.

Thank you for joining in with the advent, and reading my blog, I would be delighted if you would leave a comment.

I do hope you will be visiting with me before the 25th but either way Happy Christmas and delicious afters whatever they are.

Don't forget to visit Jo tomorrow and see what's behind the next door in the Advent.

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Sunday Stitchings funny day

 A new shed and a cold snap with a heavy frost combined to prevent me getting to church today.

Why? Well the contents of the old shed are currently in the garage waiting for the new shed to be "organised" so the car has been ousted and had to spend the night out in the cold.

Come Sunday morning and the great car defrost, which always takes longer than expected, and the windows are clear and on pop the parents and I try to get in the back and the doors are frozen solid.

As time was tight off they went without me. So Sunday stitching was to the First Presidency's Christmas Devotional, well some of it.

And got all of the third shade of brown on there.

Sunday Stitching twice

 You may recall that my Sunday Stitching stalled as I was having trouble separating out the colours and there were no thread numbers in the kit for comparison.

I reached out to both the Country Companions and The World of Cross Stitching (source of the kit) Facebook groups for assistance.

Cross Stitching .com (that's the W of CS one) came through quite quickly with the numbers for the key (printed in the magazine just not on the key in the kit)

Therefore, last Sunday I was able to move past the green wellies, but then I forgot to post.

This picture is two Sundays worth of stitching.

We started singing Christmas Hymns at church today.  Joy to the world and Once in Royal David's city.

I am very fond of both.

BFF RAL

 As noted last week we are having a break from our joint projects.

Tonight, I quilted.

I am up to the corner blocks, this is the first of the four. The snowflake-ish design was inspired by a major supermarket's Christmas gift brochure

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I am getting at the nearly almost thinking of being done stage where everything starts to feel very slow.

I had quite enjoyed doing the modified corner quilt pattern onto the monkey wrench block.

My BFF cross stitched so pop over to her blog to see how she is doing. CLICK HERE

We won't be BFF blogging next week because |Christmas stuff will be imposing itself. But hopefully you will be enjoying the Christmas Advent with Jo at serendipitous stitching.

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