Happy Autumn Equinox

Belated happy autumn equinox. My yearlong Wheel of The Year project is progressing slowly but steadily. The hand stitching is taking longer than planned but progress is still being made.

I hope you are well. If anyone is still reading this? The blog has been kinda quiet for various reasons. At first because I spent the spring putting images back in old posts and that was so tedious I didn’t feel like posting anything new.

Also, I feel like I haven’t had much new stuff to share. Especially embroidery because I’ve had a repetitive stress injury in the thumb on my stitching hand. Very annoying.

And then in the summer Blake became ill just before we were supposed to be going on holiday in Denmark. Thankfully, he recovered enough so we could both go. But of course then both Tony and I got Covid on our holiday and that put me out of action for 3-4 weeks.

I have also strained something in the same thumb so just as I was gearing up for stitching again, I’m back to being able to only do very little. So annoying. Hand stitching is my thing. I feel a bit unmoored without it…

It is getting better (too slowly!) and I’m doing my utmost not to force it. Give it time.

I have been making some stuff this year and one of them is the Lughnasadh/Lammas section for the Wheel project. I’m very happy with how that turned out. Lovely and summery.

When I took that picture, I hadn’t yet traced the name and the little poem. I hadn’t even written the poem at that point. I just added some place holder text. I have traced both the title and the poem now but the stitching is still to do.

There are two seasons left to make for the project and I am really excited about seeing the finished book. I need to make some extra pages for the layout to be right, I’m still pondering what to do with those pages.

I hope to be back to posting with some regularity soon. Maybe I should a little roundup of the things I have been making this year. :-)

x Carina