The Stocking My Grandma Made Me.

I hope your all in the festive spirit? I most certainly am. The tree is up, a good portion of the presents are wrapped and surprisingly I'm feeling pretty good about Christmas this year. Normally I get super stressed with trying to make Christmas "perfect" but this year I;m making the conscious decision to roll with it. What happens happens, because its going to happen anyway. 

In fact I've already pretty much accepted that both of the boys will be ill the week before Christmas. Mainly because it happens EVERY BLOODY YEAR! Yep you can guarantee on the 20th of December, one or both of my boys will be in bed poorly. That said I do hope they don't throw up, I can cope with colds but I am a MESS when it comes to puke.

Anyway that's enough of the gross talk! 

Today I'm showing you something that I didn't make.

My Grandma made me this stocking when I was little. In fact she made one for me my sister and my brother. Each one is different and each one was firmly ours! In fact I found it really bizarre when during our first Christmas Rikki told me he didn't have a Christmas stocking! I mean WHAAAAA? You don't have your own stocking?

I sort of believed that everyone was born, got given/brought a Christmas stocking and then they used it forever? But apparently not! 

Which I sort of get now that me Rikki and Lil man have matching stockings that I made. I like that we all have the same style and that hopefully we will get to use them forever! 

But that doesn't mean that this stocking gets tossed aside. Nope instead it hangs in the hallway and I fill it with sweets and then when people come over they can have a sweet out of the stocking. Nephews and Nieces seem to find this particularity cool. When Rikkis brothers son came over last year he basically cleared me out of candy canes! 

This fabric at the top is one of my favourite parts and I put some scraps of it into our Christmas quilt.

Its fully lined which is good because it means it can be washed if need be and the whole thing won't fall apart. And I really like the contrast fabric on the toe and the heel. 

Its all hung up now I just need to get some sweets to fill it with. 

In other news! 

- Our spare room is full of presents! So whilst I have 7 things made and really to photograph I actually have no where to take pictures. I'm tempted to try taking some in the garden but I;m worried someone will see me and think I'm nuts! 

- Dawsons creek is on all 4! Every single episode. So that pretty much sums up how I've been spending my time. I'm nearly onto season two and I'm not sure I can cope with the sheer levels of teenage angst! Also DAWSON ARE YOU BLIND? OR JUST A BIT DIM? 

Much Love

Frankie

xxx

    

Tinker bell stocking

I think this is the last if my Christmas makes, but saying that I'll probably find another one right after I've posted! 

This was made for a very special and lovely customer as a custom order. 

It's a tinkerbell Christmas stocking! (Like the post title didn't give it away! 

I used chain stitch to hand embroider the name. And added bells because well it's Christmas and Christmas is a time for bells! 

I stitched on some of my Christmas ribbon for a loop. Incidentally does anyone hang theirs from their fireplace? We pin ours up the wall? 

The tinkerbell was machine appliqué using felt, some of those tiny peices were not fun to work with! Especially when my sewing bulb went! 

More bells on the toe!

The body was worked in red cotton and I free handed the shape, and it's fully lined! 

I actually had a blast making it! Mainly I think becuase I haven't done appliqué in years! And it's basically a big jigsaw puzzle! 

Much love 

Frankie

Xxx

Tia the season to be .... Stupidly busy?

Having a small child at Christmas is rather like having a kissing booth manned by Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and George Clooney.... Everybody wants to visit!

No seriously at the moment we are scheduling on average two to three visits per day! As well as a birthday party yesterday! (I wore my skinny clemence and it went down very nicely indeed) and the delivering and wrapping of our own presents! And usually we finish up the day by crawling into bed! 

But that leaves no room for sewing or knitting! I'm actually going stir crazy! I think the first opportunity I'm going to have to knit something is going to be Christmas Day! (I'll do it , you think I won't but I will! I'll have my turkey and then this lil lady is getting her knit on! )

Anyway this means I have very little to share, (apart from my amusing kissing booth anecdote, which you can borrow by the way!) and this...

This is a small section of my mums christmas tree! And here we have the stocking I made for her, the hoop I made for my dad and a snowflake Lil Knitwit made at nursery! 

I love my mums tree it's so full of memories 

Much love! 

And if I don't blog again 

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Frankie

Xxx

I wanna be the very best!

As promised here is lil knitwits Halloween costume (he didn't want his picture taken!) 

He didn't want to be a ghost/mummy/vampire/skeleton/Frankenstein 

He wanted to be a Pokemon! It's his favourite show at the minute. Now I know your suppose to be scary at Halloween but he wanted to be a Pokemon trainer and I tend to think there's enough scary things in the world as it is! 

Sadly he didn't get many sweets becuase nobody was opening doors in our area! Which upset me a bit considering we give out sweets every year! Anyway after I had texted mr Knitwit how disappointed we had both been (little Knitwit actually started crying becuase no one was answering the door)  he came in from his night shift with some extra sweeties for little Knitwit and some flowers for me! 

Anyway even though Halloween was a disaster I thought I'd show you what I've been working on! 

I seem to be getting into the habit of making my mum something every year! What can I say she loves Christmas! Althought she might get a little something else this year aswell becuase I made this up as an example for an order! 

Anyway how was your Halloween? 

Much love 

Frankie

Xxx

Pumpkin!

It's Halloween guys! This is where to ghosts and ghouls come out to play! Anyway I shall be detailing what lil Knitwit will be dressed as tommorrow becuase I haven't quite decided yet! Bad I know! 

But we did carve our pumpkin yesterday! As per tradition! I picked and hollowed out the pumpkin and my Knitwit carved it according to my design! 

Here's our pumpkin in the beggining! (Yes I chose the biggest one I could find!) 

And here's it carved! I brought a candle to go into it today so I shall be posting a photo of it on Instagram later! 

Then I made pumpkin soup in my slow cooker ! I chucked in loads of pumpkin, two potatoes, a big carrot, a tomato and the last of the sweet corn! 

Wanna know who hates pumpkin soup? Mr Knitwit! 

Wanna know who else hates pumpkin soup? Me!!!!

Our hopes rested on young Knitwit! 

Especially seen as we had three cartons of the dammed stuff! 

Wanna know who likes pumpkin soup!? Not little Knitwit, little bigger spat it all over my floor! 

Dammit! 

Anyway apart from that I've been embroidering Christmas stocking decorations! 

I have 16 to do! Best crack on! 

Much love 

Frankie

Xxx