Two days to go! I’m posting this Christmas greeting early to make sure we can send our best wishes to you– we are in the cross hairs of winter storm Elliot and are bound to lose power today. Not to mention that I have a whole roomful of Christmas gifts to wrap, and a dinner to plan, and a guest bedroom to prepare!
Thank you SEW much for your business this past year– 2022 has been another doozy, hasn’t it! We are especially grateful for the huge response to our Christmas sales which very much made up for time lost this year with the move and in caring for my mom. We had also asked everyone to FOLLOW our blog when Winter Twist 1 released, and you can see the benefits of that to the right– over 400 new followers, and about half also subscribed to emails as well– THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
So without further ado, we’d just like to say the entire Winter Twist series will be free until the end of January– including the finishing kit! Tell your embroidery friends. Block 2 is ready for download– it’s “The Snow Baron!” a gorgeous Snowy Owl looking over Sugar Meadow while the snow falls. The link is below– you can bookmark the web page to quickly check back for Blocks 3 and 4 in January. We hope Santa brings you a brand new embroidery machine to stitch the owl on!– or at least that you have a few peaceful moments over the next week for some sewing time.
Read on for some clues about the next block….
We had said that all of the creatures in this series will be white, and we had a volunteer! In the meadow yesterday, we had an ERMINE! I had to look it up– I’ve honestly never seen one before– it’s also called a STOAT. I don’t know which they call it in Maine.
Sorry for the blurry photo– the little guy was moving so fast, all I could do was click and hope I caught something! So cute!
This was my best action shot…
This was Mr. SFO’s shot… 🙂
(Words cannot express how I love that man… standing at the window for twenty minutes trying to take a picture of an ermine with me. I am so blessed. xoxo)
So you can be sure to see an Ermine in Block Three– if you have an idea for a white winter animal for Block Four, just pop it in below in the comments… unless we get more volunteers in the meadow, I’m not sure what it will be yet.
If you are in this stitch-a-long for more than a free design, please join our private Facebook group for some friendship, to meet fellow stitchers, chat, and post pictures of your blocks! We have had quite a few polar bears last week that are all completely different– it’s fun to see all the different fabrics that were chosen. That is here:
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