Projects

Currently I have a number of projects I'm working on, trying to get them finished. One is a gift I am knitting for a friend, which is almost done, if I can just make that last push to finish off those last few rows! Another is a blanket I'm about to start for little Eliza. Hopefully it will be done before she's born, but as baby blanket's take so long to make, even knitting, there's no guarantee. Thankfully, others have been very willing and generous to supply her blankets!

Another is pictured here : family Christmas stockings for Nick and Eliza. The tradition started with my grandmother, who made them for my mom and her older brother. She made another for my dad when he married mom, and then one for each of my siblings and I as we came along. Mom and I have kept the tradition alive by making stockings as my brother and sister married and had kids. Now, I get to make them for my husband and my daughter. There wasn't time last year before the wedding to make Nick's, so he finally gets his own this year. We based made patterns from the stockings Grammy had made and have used them to cut out the felt shapes and sew on the beads and sequins. My part of the stocking is to cut out the shapes and basically tack them on to the fronts with the beads/sequins. I'm really not good at sewing. I couldn't sew a straight line for my life, and definitely couldn't do any embroidery (though sometimes when I work on these I wish I could). Still, I really enjoy making these, so I do the bead work, and Mom sews everything together.

I'll post pictures again when I have finished products to show for them.


Closer shots of the beading and sequins going on the letters of Eliza's name. It's hard to get the camera to focus properly and closely enough to see the details sharply. The picture, then, below is a close-up of the body of the stocking, showing our imitation of Grammy's original design.