A Productive Break

One of the perks of working for a school-based organization is that you get the same winter break as the schools do. So for the past week I've been able to get quite a lot done, from the kind-of-important (wedding planning, catching up on emails) to the not-at-all-important-but-still-wanted-to-do-it (reading a long book, watching all of Dr. Who*).

Most importantly, I finally got to make the new Steotch sampler! I don't know anyone getting married in the next month or so, so instead I made it as a 1.57th anniversary present for some friends:

It was really fun, although this was the first time I've worked with metallic thread (for the crown and the sword), and it was kind of a pain. I sort of want to make a stack of blank ones now, so as friends get married in the coming years I can just add the names and dates and be all set!

*Just the 6 seasons of the new version, not the 26 seasons of the original. Yet.