The Year of the Sampler...SAL Anyone?

Okay, so I didn't DO any stitching today but I would like to TALK about future stitching. As I've mentioned in previous posts, I am not making a list of projects to stitch in 2009. Instead, I am proclaiming 2009 "The Year of the Sampler." I have dozens of samplers in my stash and would like to see many of them stitched. To that end, that's what I'm going to work on next year. If anyone would like to stitch along, even for one project here and there, please let me know!

I have joined the Gallery of Samplers blog so that I can share my finishes. I know there are Sampler Yahoo groups, but I'm in enough groups already and don't wish to add to the email time each day.

Here are just some of the needlework-related definitions of sampler from Webster's Dictionary:

1. a decorative piece of cloth embroidered with various designs or mottoes in a variety of stitches, serving as an example of skill at needlework.
2. a piece of cloth embroidered with various stitches, serving to show a beginner's skill in needlework.
3. a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
4. a pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.

With so many different definitions, I'm sure we can make anything fit, right? *wink* Have fun and happy stitching!

Hopefully I will get a good number of samplers done next year; wish me luck! I hope some of you join in along the way!