Getting Stitched in November

Thanksgiving is on the horizon and then straight on decking the halls for the Winter Solstice and the Yuletide season. 

November is moving through the days so quick my head is spinning though probably the effects of the blood thinner medication I take. Really I don't need to add dizziness to my list of ailments I'm too busy;

 The online shops are crazy busy this time of year, usually things get hectic in the last week of October straight on to the New Year, this year however with delays in unloading cargo ships things have picked up at the end of September and has kept at a steady pace.  

As busy as I have been I've had time to get in some stitching, the hand embroidery for my October goddess Elen of the Ways is complete:

I am currently working on the November goddess, Baba Yaga:

If you aren't familiar with Baba Yaga here are some interesting bits on Baba Yaga the ‘old woman’ of autumn was called Baba by the Slavic inhabitants of eastern Europe, Boba by the Lithuanians. This seasonal divinity lived in the last sheaf of grain harvested in a year, and the woman who bound it would bear a child that year. Baba passed into Russian folk legend as the awesome Baba Yaga, a witchlike woman who rowed through the air in a mortar, using a pestle for Her oar, sweeping the traces of Her flight from the air with a broom.

Back in June of 2016 I took part in a Goddess a Week challenge and created this Baba Yaga for week 2, She was hand embroidered and crayon tinted on white on white print cotton fabric.

When I'm not stitching a goddess or other project I am planning ahead for 2022 and a new monthly embroidery project, I have a few ideas floating around in my head as well as ideas sent to me by friends here are a few of the ideas: a mermaid a month, a god a month, a witch or a witch hat a month.  I leaning towards a tree or leaf a month, possibly the Celtic tree calendar in wedges to make a wheel, my ideas are endless. 

This week in between packing and shipping orders and stitching Baba Yaga I'll be reading Gateway to the Modern Crone by Jude Downes. Maybe I will stitch a crone a month. 

Well that's about it for this post, it's getting late so I better go make something for dinner before I forget again.  I'll leave you with a bit of humor.