So much to share this week since I missed last week’s update. Below is the video.
Life Update
Happy Valentine’s Day and Welcome to Lent! I love the Lenten season. It’s a time of purification….a time to reflect, pray, sacrifice and fast. We grow closer to Christ by looking inward and making changes in our lives that will help us to resist sin.
Kevin and I went to Traverse City with some friends for a few days. It was a nice break.
RECIPE
Oh….before I forget, I promised to share the crab dip recipe we made for Super Bowl Sunday. You can find it here.
Stitches ‘N Things Needlework Shop Visit
I met my friend Donna Fedewa at Stitches ‘N Things in Fenton Michigan to pick up my framed samplers. Donna was going down to Craft Gallery in Findlay Ohio to pick up something she had framed by Paula Fruth and she asked if I wanted her to pick up my framed samplers as well….. of course, I said yes. Stitches ‘N Things was the perfect place for Donna and I to meet so I could get my framed samplers, do some shopping and have a delicious lunch together! Thank you Donna!
Here are a couple of photos I took while there. I show more photos and a 4 minute video tour of Stitches ‘N Things at the end of my Flosstube (above). Enjoy!
Donna and Me in front of Stitches N Things
“God is Good” stitched on gauze by Deb (owner of the shop)
Visit Stitches ‘N Things online.
WIPS – ART
Made a little progress on this painting. Hopefully we’ll have a finish by next week!
WIPS – NEEDLEWORK
I haven’t had a lot of time to work on cross stitch. We’re getting ready for our Needlework Expo release plus going out of town for a few days has made it difficult to find time. Here’s my progress:
YOUR NEEDLEWORK FINISHES
Below are photos of some of my designs stitched by some great stitchers! I appreciate them sharing their work. If you’ve stitched, punched or hooked one of my designs and want me to feature it on my Flosstube/blog, you can email me at teresakogut3@gmail.com
Newcastle Bouquet stitched by Donald Jones
Winter Bouquet stitched by Tammy Easterling
Basket of Joy stitched by Žydrė Stankūnaitė
Bearing Gifts stitched by Patty McCarthy
CW LIVE – Creative Whims Live
“Sunkissed” watercolor lesson is done. I’m happy with how it came out. I’m so impressed with how the students did with watercolor! Below is my painting for the lesson.
Creative Whims Live is private Facebook group where I teach every Tuesday night at 7pm live with the students who have paid to be there. The sessions are 3 months long. We start a lesson one week and finish it the following week for a total of 6 projects per session. To learn more and to get signed up for the next session, visit Gather Dream Create.
NEW RELEASES – Needlework Expo
March 6-8 will be the first (and hopefully annual) Needlework Expo. It’s a virtual market where needlework shops can see merchants to order their new products. Below is a photo showing sneak peeks of 7 out of my 8 new releases that will be introduced at the expo.
This Wednesday, February 24th my new release Flosstube video will be available to watch. I’ll share my new releases fully finished!
I received “Up on the Housetop” model back this week from model stitcher Mendy aka Missouri Stitcher. The design is pictured below and will be released in May 2021.
Up on the Housetop cross stitch by Teresa Kogut
NEW IN MY ETSY SHOP
Peach on Earth Art Heart is now available in my Etsy shop. Demdaco created this beautiful heart featuring my Angelic Vision artwork. Demdaco has discontinued this product so once they sell out, there won’t be anymore…..ever 
Available here.
PLANS
- 20 stitches a day on winter bouquet cross stitch
- work on punchneedle for Park Designs (oh my gosh…..wait til you see it!)
- daily #whimsy365 sketches
- finish cover and directions for cross stitch/punchneedle pattern release (due yesterday!)
- fully finish all new releases
- record and upload new release video on YouTube
- Paint in the mornings (not until the above three things are done, so probably not til Wednesday)
- Decide what the Halloween theme fabric line is going to be……..Due end of March
- Future plans (after our May pattern release) You know how I dedicate 3-4 hours in the early morning to painting, well, I plan to spend Monday mornings art journaling! I have a couple of art journals started but haven’t touched them in 2-3 years. I want to have 1 journal where I create whatever floats my boat that day (whimsy chicks, various collage work, mock ups of larger paintings I plan to do, my musicians series, etc), 1 faith journal and one that will be more like a diary (very personal with family photos, my “back to health” journey, vacations, weekly happenings…getting feelings down on paper, etc) These will be recorded (except the personal one) and uploaded to my YouTube art channel. I will do voice overs to explain what I’m doing and what products/tools I’m using.
- the faith journal is the one I want to focus the most on. It will be full of angels, scripture, saints, the Holy Family, quotes, my thoughts, etc.
- my intention is to share my faith and faith journey with you and hopefully you will be inspired to start your own faith journaling.
- You can subscribe to my art YouTube channel here. Make sure to click the bell so you’ll be notified when I have a new video or when I go live. The journaling will start in June (sooner if I’m lucky) The blogging will be at my Gather Dream Create website which is here.
That’s a wrap for this week! See you next weekend. Have a blessed week!
Teresa
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