Happy new year, everybody. I hope you all have a fantastic year.

To kick it off, here are the winners of my book giveaway. On digging through my boxes, I found I had three more long stitch books and two accordion albums to give away in addition to the Joel R. L. Phelps book. Nine people left comments, but Jase asked to be left out of the drawing. He’s chivalrous that way.

I’m doing the draw the old fashioned way — I wrote down everybody’s names on individual pieces of paper, and I’m pulling them out of a bag in real time as I write this!

And the winners are:

• Elizabeth gets the Joel R. L. Phelps notebook!
• MerryOnion gets a long stitch notebook!
• YC gets a long stitch notebook!
• Gayle gets a long stitch notebook!
• Jonathan gets an accordion album!
• Sue H gets an accordion album!

I’ll be contacting each of the winners by email to get your addresses, and will get everything out in the mail later this week. Thanks to everyone who entered, and to all the readers who have stuck around in spite of my long silences. I’ll try to update a bit more regularly this year — hopefully work and life will cooperate!