Hey-ho! I've been working on the boys' Halloween costumes. Squiddle wanted Link's Champion tunic from the video game Breath of the Wild, so I sewed the tunic and Wonderful Husband has been painting the white decoration lines onto it. Jazzy opted to be a dragon, and the pattern (McCall's 8225) has been giving me a few headaches.
That said, I finished another Christmas stitch! This one from Crafting Traditions magazine from Nov/Dec 1996!
I did change it slightly from the original:
I felt that since it had Santa in it, "Merry Christmas" was somewhat redundant. And having Santa's sack being matchy-matchy with the shutters seemed a bit dated, so I took a poll of Jazzy and my mother and they both voted for a green bag instead.
It's not perfect - for part of the border and most of the pine trees, the stitches ended up going in a different direction than the rest of the work. But by the time I'd realized it, I really didn't want to rip it all out and redo it. Plus, in my household, no one but me will ever know or notice. I did end up getting a slightly stronger pair of readers to work on this, because that full coverage midnight blue behind Santa was a bitch to deal with.
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