Temperature embroideries 2023

This marks a real moment. For 2 years this pile has looked at me. When I was upstairs and still not able to sew i saw this every time I went to the sewing room which was every day. These are the temperature embroideries for 2023, paired with a monthly cross stitch from Victoria Sampler. I stitched those cross stitches when I first got long covid. There was a long long time I thought i would never be able to do these but here we are!

Now I have 12 bordered and trimmed cross stitches!

All pages sewn together,  got to add inner sashing to leaves then join leaves

And here they are all made up!

I did a video of all my embroideries together, I dont think ill go back to recording temperatures im quite happy at the moment recording pages read 😊 but i really enjoyed these

Monthly trees for 2023

I have completed all my Temperature embroideries for 2023, it was the last year I did it in the spiders Web pattern before switching to the little light stitchery fabric and pattern. 

For the previous 2 years of Temperature patterns I paired each month with a corresponding embroidery, when Victoria Sampler brought out these monthly tree patterns for 2023 I thought they were ideal for this. But I also underestimated just how much extra work they would be 🤣 I know how unlike me ...

My very first bout of covid gave me an ideal opportunity to get cracking with them, so here are January to March

And here they all are! All ready to put together in an embroidery book  that will have to wait till I've recovered a bit more and also got some firm interfacing. I really enjoyed making these I thought it would take me a lot longer they seemed so fiddly at first but hey this is one finish I need to thank Covid for!