That’s a wrap on 2025! This year was filled with so many new projects, but I’m also proud to say that it came with less burnout and overall better balance than the past couple of years.
See below for a full summary of 2025 year in review.
✨January
I made an effort to start a new sketchbook to fill with doodles throughout the year
I spent 10 hours finishing a cross-stitch project I started in 2019
RuPaul Portrait - 42 hours of labour
✨February
Launched my first pattern on Patreon!
Started my largest cross-stitch project to date (30x30 inch Aida cloth)
✨March
Continued working on project “Instruction Table 1.3_V3 - Crop 1.jpg”
Small professionally framed cross-stitch pieces
Launched a RuPaul/riso print collection
✨April
FS Smalls exhibition
Finished & framed “Instruction Table 1.3_V3 - Crop 1.jpg” - 96 hours total
Introduction to Cross-Stitch Workshop (Ferry Building Gallery)
✨May
Exploring Stitch group show
New cupcake x-stitch cards
New riso x-stitch pattern design
New cross-stitched logo market sign
New glitch x-stitch patches
New sandwich board sign
✨June
XOXO Fibre Market
Breeze Block painting
✨July
New heart patches
Khatsahlano Street Festival
Stitching Loose Ends (continued…)
✨August
Nostalgic Futures group show
Long weekend/Nanoose Bay vacation
Painting
Breeze Block cross-stitch experiment
✨September
Flats Fest @ Emily Carr
Collective Chaos show at Slice
Car Free Day Main Street
Breeze block cross-stitch
Breeze block painting finished/stretched
✨October
End Times Garage Sales @ Heritage Hall
Started new cross-stitch project “Instruction Table 1.3_v1.jpg”
Holiday market prep
✨November
Holiday market prep continued
Designed 8x Riso X-Stitch Kits
Finished new cross-stitch project “Instruction Table 1.3_v1.jpg”
Got Craft Winter Market
Started new cross-stitch project “Instruction Table 1.3_v2.jpg”
✨December
Stocked new glitch x-stitch toques
Mount Pleasant Holiday Art Walk/Open Studio
Good Stank Holiday Mart
ooek/one of each kind market
Finished cross-stitch project “Instruction Table 1.3_v2.jpg”
Wow what a busy year! I’ve been enjoying the last week or so off spending time with friends and family. I’ve also been reading, doing crosswords & crocheting. I’ve spent a little time in the studio doing some more painting and adding a few more rows to my Stitching Loose Ends project.
I can’t wait to see everything in store for 2026!
Labour Report - 2025
First Saturday Open Studios - Jan 3
First Saturday is a public monthly artist-run open-studio event.
Come visit artists where they work at City Centre Artist Lodge.
The following artist studios will be open:
Tracy Anne Northey - Studio # 34
Ilena Lee Cramer - Studio # 109
Jessica Salvador - Studio # 116
Hoda Mir – Studio #130
Mallory Donen - Studio # 211
Location: 2111 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V5T 3C6
Date: January 3, 2026
Time: 12pm-5pm