Page Three Complete

I spent most of today cleaning up the aftermath of the Christmas party. Four loads of dishes and a whole bunch of trips to the dumpster later, I sat down to do some stitching. I finished page three, so now the top row of the Emerald Stocking is complete. I still have some laundry to do, but then I will be starting on page four!

Page Three

Today I started page three of the Emerald Stocking. I completed most of the knotwork in yellow and just began filling in the green. In other news, I am getting ready for the whole family to come over tomorrow for a Christmas party. Unfortunately we are having a blizzard so we'll see how that pans out...

Page Two Finished!

After some ferocious effort over the last few days, I have finished page two of the Emerald Stocking. The knotwork is beautiful but it is a huge pain to stitch... tons of confetti. Almost done with that part though!
Christmas was nice and relaxing, spent yesterday at my mom's and today at home watching movies snuggled up with the cat.

Off to work on page three! Merry Christmas!

Emerald Stocking, Day 27

More work on the Emerald Stocking today. I started on the different shades of yellow in the knotwork. It's a bit hard to see but it's there. Otherwise, it was a fairly uneventful day. Back to stitching!

More Emerald Stocking

Today was my second day home. I spent a lot of time cleaning and ironing, made a trip to the grocery store, and did some more stitching. I am still working on the Emerald Stocking, this is what I got done today. I am itching to get back to work on Wolf Countess, but I am torn because I also want to get these stockings knocked out well before next Christmas. Well, that's all for today. I have a bit more ironing to do, then back to stitching!

More Emerald Stocking

I am going to be taking some time off of work for awhile to refocus and get my life straight. I have a lot of things to work out and a lot of stuff to deal with. So today was my first day at home. I did some final Christmas shopping this morning, which was a horror show. I assumed since it was a weekday morning that it would be smooth sailing but no such luck. We are expecting a pretty sizable snow storm here on Sunday and Monday so everybody and their mother was out today. The DW Highway was almost impossible to get around on. But I got some good shopping done.
Since getting home I have been working on cleaning, laundry, stitching, and spending quality time with Marley. :) Here is what I accomplished on the Emerald Stocking today: I should be making a lot more progress now that I'll have more free time!
Well, that's all for tonight. Thanks for looking!

A new arrival!

Ok so I lied in my last post, I didn't write the next day. But I have gotten some stitching done since then; I actually finished page one of the Emerald Stocking. This is my progress, excuse the hoop marks.

We also added a new member to our family today! We visited the Humane Society for Greater Nashua and adopted our new furbaby, Marley. He is kind of hard to see in the picture because he is all black except for a tiny patch of white on his chest. He has been sitting on my lap for the last two hours while I was stitching; now he is climbing around on the kitchen counters getting into mischief. Nevermind, he is down from the counter now and trying to eat my snowman decoration.

Stocking, Days 12-18

It's been a crazy week so I haven't really had a chance to post, but I did finish the first page of the Emerald Stocking tonight. It's difficult to see the shades of green in the picture but they're actually quite nice. This represents about 45 hours of stitching time so far. More tomorrow!

Stocking, Day 11

This is my work from today on the Emerald Stocking. Not much to say tonight, I am tired and heading off to bed, but wanted to update the project!
Good night!