A Crazy January Challenge Finish

What with the Tuesday and Wednesday Snow and Ice Storm here in the Northeast, I had additional time for stitching ... even though I had planned ahead and brought home a satchel of work ... grading all the 7th grade quarter finals.

Imagine a flourish of trumpets for this, my first Crazy January Challenge finish of the month:

Sue Hillis' Cookie Baking Santa: admittedly, not the best photo I have taken but we must make allowances for an aging camera.

... note the optimism, I am implying there will be at least one more Crazy January finish this month. I'll begin working on the Crazy Challenge Day 2 project, Dragon Dreams' The Ice Dragon's Kingdom, tomorrow though I am still lacking one of the Anchor Marlitt flossesneeded for the body of the dragon. I expect I shall have to substitute a similar shade of DMC Satin [rayon] floss but I will cross that bridge [or should I say, stitch] when I get to it. The piece is not quite a BAP, though moderately large and involving the use of the rather unwieldy rayon floss, so it should take the whole month. But it is followed in the queue by two medium sized Homespun Elegance pieces that ought to work up very quickly, The Stitcher and Witches Stitch, Too. I set up my list knowing I'd tackle the projects in chronological order and I tried to mix it up a bit as to size and complexity.