Stocking Started

I started my son's Christmas stocking while we were on vacation. I suppose it went along with all the Christmas movies that my mother-in-law was watching, though it didn't match the patio-sitting at another relative's house so well. At that point I had finished the knitting on one project but didn't have the supplies to do the finishing on it and gone as far as I could with the embroidery on the 18th century pocketbook. The kind-of next in line project was to start this stocking. Here's what I did with a lot of hanging out at relatives' houses on the fourth and fifth. I guess we'll call this week one.

Week 1:


Now that I've finished all the sewing projects I had in hand, this may become my primary project for a bit. The only in-progress projects I have right now are a pair of garters based on a pair in a museum dated 1798 and this stocking. I do need a black dress this fall so I bought fabric and will probably do that before long. I think I'm going to try out the Haslam system since I bought a digital book for that back in November.