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I am finally back to working on my "Street Scene" cross-stitch after almost four months of Christmas stockings. The plan is to go back to working on it every other day.

I finished the stocking for my daughter yesterday.

We are both pleased with how it turned out. I'm also pleased that it is finished well before it's time to put up the Christmas decorations.

As much as I enjoy cross-stitching, I'm ready to be working on something else. In a week or so I'll resume alternating days between the "Street Scene" cross-stitch and other projects.

Here's where I left off last week:

"Santa's Journey Stocking" progress - 11/10/24

Here's where I left off this week:

"Santa's Journey Stocking" progress - 11/17/24

I finished all the cross-stitches and half-cross-stitches and have moved on to the outlining. The top border is done, and I've done most of the outlining on the tree and house except for beads and white French knots to represent snow. I think finishing by Thanksgiving is a reasonable goal.

Here's where I left off last week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 11/3/24

Here's where I left off this week:

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I've gotten up to the very top and now just have to fill in gaps from his beard up to the top. I think it will only be a couple more weeks, but that could be overly optimistic.

Here's where I left off last week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 10/27/24

Here's where I left off this week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 11/1/24

There are again two pictures because I finished the bottom and had to move the frame.

I also finally made up the first stocking. It can now come off the projects in progress list.

I finished the toe of my daughter's stocking yesterday so the bottom half is finished. I've started the top half. There's less unworked fabric in the top than the bottom.

Here's where I ended up last week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 10/20/24

Here's where I ended up this week:

There's a lot of unstitched fabric at the bottom so I just have a bit more through the toe at the bottom right. I think I'm likely to finish the bottom this week, and then I'll move on to the top, which has a lot less unstitched fabric. It's looking promising for finishing before Christmas, possibly even before we decorate the house in December.

Here's where I ended up last week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 10/13/24

Here's where I ended up this week:

I think it might be more intelligible now.

Here's where I was at the end of last week:

“Santa’s Journey Stocking” progress - 10/6/24

Here's where I ended this week:

It's definite progress. I'm nearly finished with the middle right page of the pattern.

Here's week one on the "Santa's Journey Stocking"

Even knowing what it is, it's hard to see so far.

Here's where I left off last week:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 9/22/24

Here's the finished embroidery:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” - completed embroidery

I hoped to finish the stocking over the weekend, but I only finished the embroidery. I will make it up, but I'm not sure when I'll get a chance. This is going to be a busy week without much time for needlework.

It's the weekend, and I have goals.

1. I finished knitting the second sleeve of the red shell to go with the cabled sweater I made earlier this year. I'd like to get that made up this weekend.
2. I finished the cross-stitching and started the outlining on my daughter's Christmas stocking. I'd like to get that finished this weekend and sew up the stocking.
3. A couple of weeks ago when it was nice out, we started putting together a rack to go over the garage door. Then it got hot again. This weekend is supposed to be in the 80's so I'd like to get it finished.
4. Now that the knitting is finished on the red sweater, it's time to start the 1901 bicycling sweater. I cast on a swatch last night and would like to finish that, decide which needles I want, and cast it on.
5. I've been working on a birthday present for my daughter. She'll be gone all day Saturday at a marching contest so I'm hoping to get about another quarter of it finished.

I don't know that I'll do all that because I also have errands to run and a house to have ready for company next week and more trim in the living room that I want to paint.

If by any chance I get through all of the work and the stated goals, it would be great to start the Christmas stocking for my second daughter.

This is probably the penultimate update on the "Snowman Gathering Stocking" project.

Here's where I left off last week:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 9/15/24

Here's where I left off this week:

I spent most of the weekend cross-stitching. I managed to do most of what I needed to around the house, but the rest of it was spent cross-stitching, especially yesterday as the unstitched area was shrinking so rapidly. I have one more thread to finish the ribbon at the top, and then there's the name to stitch across the top. After that it will be outlining and French knots.

Another week with a fair bit of cross-stitching.

Here's where I ended last week:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 9/8/24

And here's where I ended this week:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 9/14/24

I need two pictures because I finished the toe and moved up to the top section of the stocking. There's a fair bit of unworked fabric around the toe so it will be more rounded when the stocking is made up.

Week five saw me get all the way to the rightmost edge of the stocking as well as all the way to the lowest edge.

Here's where I left off last week:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 9/1/24

Here's where I finished this week:

There are a number of unworked squares in the snow. Everything to the left of the buttons is finished.

I finished a quadrant of the “Snowman Gathering Stocking” today. I’m not sure whether you can fairly call it a quadrant when the piece is not at all rectangular, but I don’t have a better term.

I didn't cross-stitch as much this week among meet the teacher night, a football game (well, half of one), and visitors for the holiday weekend, but I still did a fair bit. It's just starting to take the shape of a stocking.

Here's where I ended week three:

Snowman Gathering Stocking progress - 8/25/24

Here's where I ended week four:

The reindeer is finished.

I spent a lot of time cross-stitching this weekend again. It's too hot to want to go out a lot. At least it's good for cross-stitching.

Here's where I ended week 2

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 8/18/24

And here's where I ended week 3

I did a lot of cross-stitching over the weekend.

Here's where I was at the end of week 1:

“Snowman Gathering Stocking” progress - 8/12/24

Here's where I was at the end of week 2:

I didn't work a whole week on it last week, but I did spend a few hours on the "Snowman Gathering Stocking" cross-stitch for my daughter. I figured I should go ahead and call that week 1, even if it wasn't a whole week.

At least this one will probably move fast enough to be worth posting weekly about.

Sorry for a lack of costuming content, but sometimes my needlework whims take me in other directions.

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