We can hardly wait, but in between work and visitors, I get pretty bored. So I will be rug-hooking a Christmas stocking for baby. I did the same thing for my husband for our first Christmas last year, so it's only right that I continue. I'm so particular with design, though, and the rug-hooking designs offered everywhere are not desirable. So I sat down with my husband and we designed the stocking together. My husband is amazing at free-hand sketches and he was able to draw a simple pattern that can be transferred onto canvas so I can work my magic.
We decided to bring our Catholic faith and traditional Christmas themes together to form a wonderful design the can grow with our child: the lion and the lamb. There is a little more to why we went with that.
When I was a kid my mom started a stocking for me. It was a Laura Englebright needlepoint pattern of the lion and the lamb. It was a beautiful design, and I could not wait for it to be finished. Well, it took 7 YEARS to make, because things would come up and it would be put on the back burner, then picked up again only to be put away when we got busy (which was all the time). Finally, my Freshman year of high school it was finished! It had beautiful rich colors, and a dark green velvety backing. I loved it! Then we moved. I packed it in a box, or so I thought, but we haven't seen it since. I can't even find that pattern. It is now a family joke.
Anyway, I had my lion and lamb stocking, so now I am going to "live vicariously" through my child who will have a similar stocking. ... Joking.
Well, I'm very excited to begin, although I better start soon, or else I'll end up taking 7 years just like my mom did :). I will share the design below, and I will share the finished product...eventually.
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