Gifted Gorgeousness January 2021 January Link-up Post

this is the first link up of the year with basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO you or is a gift FROM you.

please use the link at the end of this post to visit Jo over at Serendipitous Stitching for links to the other participants.

So Christmas gifts starts previously shared are now gifts given I can share a finish from one of those teasing starts.

Well guessed Jo it was indeed a bear...for a birth sampler.

This is not the Alphabet I had intended to use, I had one in mind but the T on that alphabet did not look quite right and I could not get the T modified to work.  I joked to my BFF that is always appears that way that it is the least clear letter in any chosen alphabet that is the one you need.

I further mused that perhaps if I called the parents and asked nicely they might see their way to changing the baby's name  to something that started with a friendlier letter from my chosen alphabet.  Not much to ask? Well perhaps not, the mother had already had some raised eyebrows at her choice of name (not from me I hasten to add) so I thought perhaps not and just designed my ownT and an alphabet to go with it.

Then I moved on to the date and struggled with getting the N for November to look right, as I moaned about that to my friend I wondered if perhaps in this instance I could persuade the government to change the name of the month to Ovember  as I thought I could manage a reasonable capital o.

As that also seamed unlikely to succeed  I struggled on and got it finished.  I quite like doing this patchwork edge it is colourful, feels reflective of me and my interests as well as being good to use up bits of thread.

I have obscured some of the lettering for the privacy of the child concerned.

I did , for Christmas get a crafting themed gift.  A book, Meg Evans Hand-Stitched Boxes.

Who knows maybe some day I will do something from it. I am fond of boxes.

click HERE for the link to Jo