This year's Thanksgiving was strange this year due to COVID precautions. Our Austin boys got tested before visiting and although it wasn't totally without risk, we felt that their visit was worth the little increased risk we took. (They're all working from home and not going out much (wearing masks when they DO go out.) We also did a Zoom visit with the relatives we would have seen on Thanksgiving which was strange but better than nothing. I was so distracted setting up for the Zoom that I forgot to take pictures. One of the boys took one of the table before I put out the food. We even used paper plates for the first time for Thanksgiving instead of the good china, our nod to trying to make it a little safer. I must admit that I didn't miss hand washing the china but I did miss getting to use it. Hopefully next year!
I finished the Theresa Kogut's Give Thanks Turkey but didn't finish it in time to FFO it. (Maybe next year!)
I blame it on COVID but I was very late choosing an ornament to stitch for the family ornaments (total of 5!). Then I saw someone stitching A Very COVID Santa (from BeverlyStreetShop on etsy) and knew I'd found the one! I'm not celebrating COVID by stitching it but it will indeed be something to remember in future holidays when we finally get back to normal (whatever normal will look like). I popped the first one temporarily in an embroidery hoop to see what it will look like FFO'd that way.
I mailed off the rest of the stockings (designed by Bent Creek) I made for our daughter's family and they received them yesterday. Our poor granddaughter (4) forgot that I'd made hers a couple of years ago and was a little sad that there wasn't one for her in the box (although I sent her some treats in the same box). All was well when I explained that I stitched hers FIRST and wanted her brother and parents to have their stockings too. I stitched them and they were beautifully FFO'd by my friend Vonna Pfeiffer aka The Twisted Stitcher.
The boys left us yesterday and a cold front arrived bringing rain that will probably go on all day. I'm looking forward to putting away the Thanksgiving decorations, maybe putting out a few Christmas ones and then being a couch potato today while watching football and stitching.
Happy stitching!
3 comments:
How big are the stockings? I need to make 4. I was thinking SB, but these are cute, too.
Design size for the Santa one is 96x145. The rest are either the same or close to the same. They're meant to be stitched on 18 ct over one with, I think, 4 strands but I stitched them on 28 over 2 with two strands. It made them smaller but smaller works out better in our DD's house. (Design itself is 6.857 by 10.357. Since they're not here anymore I couldn't measure the actual stockings.)
So glad you were able to enjoy some sort of Thanksgiving with your family !
Love the covid santa and your stockings are beautiful !!
catherine
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