Atti’s slowly but surely gaining enough mobility that we can start to hang out in our little backyard now. We splurged on a fancy exersaucer knowing that he’s going to be spending a lot of time in there while he masters standing on his own, and now that he’s through throwing tantrums every time I put him in it, we can take it outside and all hang out together in the sweet breeze.
This is heaven right here. Sleeping Bears and Kitties, a little boy hard at play, and I’m sitting back in my chair with an ice Cold coke and hands busy with the rhythm of stitching up and down.
This will eventually become Atti’s Christmas stocking. So far all the stockings I’ve done for us have come from this book. I really love the dense, illustrated patterns that almost look like needlepoint canvases. A blanket of tiny cross stitches just looks beautiful all finished up, and the intricacies of the pattern with all the different shadings keeps me interested the whole way through. This pattern is a little boy sitting in a rocking chair in front of a fireplace, reading a storybook. At first I thought it would be a little too old fashioned, but Bear insisted. He thought Atti absolutely required a stocking with a boy reading a book.
Between this, my 12 Days of Christmas ornaments, and a whole lot of projects I have up my sleeve for the new trees, I have a lot of stitching ahead of me. But that seems to be what’s calling to me this summer, so I guess it’s about right.