How's this for an embroidery to bring some optimism into the dark, dreary, post Christmas winter days before Spring? And something to cheer you up even more, this lovely pattern is free, thank you Septemberhouse! You can read about why Septemberhouse designed this piece and download the pattern
here.

PS I just thought I'd mention one more piece of pattern news this week, Aimee Ray and Lark Crafts have just started hosting the
Doodle Stitch Along, where every Friday for four weeks they will be releasing one of their woodland motifs from Aimee's newest book, Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection, on the Lark Crafts website (which unfortunately at time of blogging seems to be down, hopefully it'll be back up again soon). It certainly looks a fun stitch along!