Congratulations to Lori on completing this pretty piece called My Way.  My Way is a Carolyn Mitchell design and was taught by her in a series of workshops offered to the Guild in the fall of 2024.   Workshop participants were encouraged to make the piece their own by choosing their own colours. Many alternate design choices were also provided. 

Congratulations to Lynne on completing this delightful Christmas kit.  It's called Winter Barn and is from a Mill HIll collection called Winter Holiday.  It's worked in perforated paper with DMC stranded cotton and a variety of Mill Hill beads.

Congratulations to Ginette on her the Christmas ornament that she made for the Virtual Threads ornament exchange.  Ginette created this 3" design partly from her own ideas and partly from a combination of designs from a Just Cross-Stitch Christmas Ornaments magazine.   It was sent to Ohio and I'm sure must have made somebody very happy!

Congratulations to Kimberley on her beautiful cross stitch of Hogwart's Castle.  The artist of the piece is Julia Belaya and the chart designer is Anna Petunova.

Congratulations to Pira on her wonderful 2025 Year of the Snake card.  This piece is an original blackwork design on 16 count Aida with Sulky 12 wt cotton thread.  It was created as the 11th image for a 12 year New Year's card project featuring the Chinese Zodiac.

The 2023-2024 President's Challenge was to create a Mandala.  Diane's winning contemporary design used gold threads on black Aida. Her design incorporated goldwork, surface embroidery, applique, stumpwork, blackwork and beading.   She amalgamated Sarah Homfray's daisy motif (http://www.sarahhomfray.com), part of an outside floral band by Dee Southall (xxInfinityStitchesxx 2001), and some blackwork patterns from Clare Bradshaw (The Steady Thread, 2019).  The overall design and layout and choice of threads were her own. Congratulations Diane!