I am about 25 percent done with my Christmas Stocking! I have the design all drawn out and perfect on my stocking and I have almost finished with the branches on the bottom. Then comes the holly, then the cardinal, which I am a little nervous about because it is so much more intricate than the pine boughs!
Here is a picture of my design all drawn out. I am going to wait to embroider the name until I finish Mike's stocking as well because I want them to be the same size and color.
Here is the in progress photo, although it is still in the hoop so it is a little bit harder to see.
I have the bottom outlined and I am hoping to finish all the pine boughs by the end of this month! I am hoping to have all of the embroidery done by the middle of May.
After much pestering, I had Mike finalize which design he wanted on his stocking. After making him look through the incredibly detailed Pinterest board I had made with a million different types of designs, he really liked this one, and I have to say, it will be a challenge, but I really like it too!!
A peaceful little village scene I think it is going to be very nice and very Christmasy.
Now, my favorite topic... NEW PROJECT.
I have been thinking about this one for a long time. I want to make another bed quilt especially for the wedding and after. I wanted to make a special quilt to put on our bed. Very sentimental, but I want a new quilt for a new chapter in our lives.
In my Pinterest stalking I found a beautiful and simple quilt design. It is called the Depression Block quilt, known for being made during the Depression era when people still made quilts from feed sacks.
This is the quilt I found and I am going to use the same kind of idea but instead of blue and grey and white it would be blue and green and white.
I loved the Aria by Kate Spain collection, but I did not want the pinks the dominate a lot of the collection. So I really truly looked closely at the collection and saw a lot of beautiful blues and greens with white. So I looked and found 12 of the prints from the collection in yardage. Here are the pictures.
I know I repeated a few of the fabrics in the picture, but I really think that the blue, green, navy and turquoise colors will compliment the white that makes the depressions in the quilt. My favorite fabric is this turquoise and navy and green butterflies on a white background. I am thinking about backing the quilt with this fabric once the quilt top is done.
After I finish the cardinal stocking, I want to start the quilt!
So far it lives in my cart ready to be bought but I am waiting until the embroidery on the stocking is done. Then the summer will be dedicated to the quilt!!
