Stocking Progress

I started a stocking for my son-in law some months ago.  I like to have a project in the evening so that when I spend an inordinate amount of time watching TV, I don't feel like such a slug. Then I am not wasting time.  I am being productive!

Each of our children has a stocking I made.  Back in the day.  And they were all crewel, which I LOVE.  If I won the lottery, I would bring back crewel kits for stockings.  Now you can only get cross stitch or needlepoint designs. Crewel has many different stitches and is more like a picture, I think.  But as you can't get them any more and I now have the problem (joy) of getting additional "children" through marriage, I have to make more stockings.

I was able to find a stocking kit for my daughter-in-law that was very similar in design to my son's, but now I have a son-in-law.  And this is what I settled on.  I think it is very evocative of a Christmas scene. 

   

I have been working on it for months and this is as far as I have gotten.

   

I work for an hour or two most nights and a few all day sessions when it is rainy and I don't feel like doing anything useful.

   

 Look at those itty bitty stitches.  And so many more to go.

   

There is a jumble of yarns on top of Lee's dresser and I can't dust them, so there they sit getting dusty.  And probably covered in cat hair.

   

Here it is almost summer and I am feeling the pressure.  Gotta get it done.  Of course, I still have a quilt I have to get done.  And the basement remodel.  But progress is being made all around.  Just not fast enough for me to cross anything off a list.  GOOD THING I AM SO PATIENT.  not.

Now I have to go figure out how to put an embroidery label on my quilt.  I may or may not show that, depending on how it comes out!