The Ugly Stitch Club

I have started a new craft club and I’m thrilled to be sharing about it here with you all! What kind-of club is it? The Ugly Stitch Club is a group for stitchers of all levels of experience. Whether you are a stitch smith or total newbie, if you are interested in stitching of various kinds, you are in the right place! We have an Instagram page you can follow and a group on Facebook. Members on Facebook may post images and video to show others their projects or how-to or ask questions about technique or for creative ideas. Above all, we are sharing in order to respectfully support stitchery and encourage those who engage in it. We are a positive group and welcome you with a smile!

Tomorrow, we are currently starting a 20 Day Stitchy Snippet Roll Challenge over on the Facebook group and Instagram. This is a challenge is great for stocking your crafty stash with stitch snippet rolls for various projects! All you really need is 5 to 10 minutes a day to work on your rolls. Even if it’s just a tiny section, it still counts for the daily challenge. This challenge is mixed media and there are loads of material ideas you can use. More information about the challenge on Instagram or on our Facebook Group.

Group Links:

Instagram  @theuglystitchclub  

For the Facebook group, just type in the search field, “The Ugly Stitch Club” and request to join.  

See you there!

Stephanie Hopkins

Magical Moments And Bookish Things

MeI hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas yesterday! I don’t know about y’all but I think my family consumed more calories in a day than we do in an entire week! Ha! Such at beautiful day yesterday with the Fam and just being at peace…

Sewing kitCheck out the sewing tools in the picture I was gifted! I am forever grateful for my family. The secret project I am working on was revealed to my daughter and she loves it! I won’t reveal it to y’all until its completed. Hoping that will be by the end of January.

On the book front, I’m one book away from being at my reading goal for the year. I’m so excited! I don’t read as many books in a year as I use too but twenty-five novels’ is nothing to sneeze at! I want to read fifty in the upcoming year but not sure that is doable with my new schedule. I’m not going to stress about it really. I’m just a planner when it come to books. It’s the hunt you see…if I don’t plan a little, I get swamped with trying to figure out which book I want to read next then it gets way too stressful! I guess that is good though because that means writers are still casting beautiful stories. Ok, I am sounding all over the place with this. Anyhow, the New Year of reading, hunting for new stories, and blogging about them will be thrilling!

No One's HomeThis week I finished up No One’s Home by D.M. Pulley. There are highlights of the story I liked and a few moments where I wasn’t feeling it. However, it is a good story and one of the things I was fascinated with was about the Shakers. I actually would have liked to seen the history of that fleshed out more in the story. It certainly is a spooky story for sure.

Many blessing to you and yours and see you tomorrow!

Stephanie