Santa and the Snowman, Pt. 2

The little Santa mini sampler was finished this week - finished stitching and then fully finished, too!

Just in time to hang out with some friends before everything was put away for January!

And the Snowman embroidery was completely started over!  New fabric, newly retraced, and even a different floss to work with.  It's going to be a much better choice for the look I want.

Instead of the white with blue and red stars, I found a piece of white Grunge that looks so much better.  It's not solid white, but there's no print to clash with the embroidery.  

The floss is DMC 334 - Medium Baby Blue.

I'll be working on this today for Slow Sunday Stitching and linking up with Kathy's Quilts!

Getting started with blue...

New year, new logo - and I'm looking forward to participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge again for 2026!

It's always fun to start the new year with a new color and new projects, too.  Back in October I decided to make a Jacob's Ladder block just to see how I felt about making them for the 2026 Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  Sometime in December, I also made one in red.  They are such a classic block, and go together quickly.

This week I pulled out some pieces of blue from my stash, and sewed another block!

The background is what I am calling an ecru print (which Mr. Google says is a beige with yellow tones!) and I'm going to try to keep with that background color throughout all these blocks.  A friend gave me quite a bit of yardage in the ecru colorway, so I thought I'd try and use it up on this project.

Then I made one in lighter blues -  

Ooh, I'm liking this!

The Jacob's Ladder blocks need larger chunks of the prints to make the 4.5 inch sections, so I'm digging into the fat quarter type stash for them.  But I also have lots of smaller blue scraps.  I've been sorting them into darks and lights and thinking about what can be done with them.

You know I'll figure out something!  😊

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.