Christmas Stocking Memorabilia

Ok, so I didn't finish my sweater. I keep getting side tracked. I hope I remember the pattern by the time I get back around to finishing it! But I did go to Joanne Fabrics and buy some wool with real Christmas colors - not like the muted colors that came with the kit - so I could make stockings to hang by our nonexistant fireplace in our non-Christmas-decorated apartment of which we aren't going to even be home on Christmas anyway!!! (Wow that was a long sentence. Feel free to take a breath somewhere in the middle of it, I hate to think that my readers are going to be passing out from such a long run on sentence. In fact, that's good advice for anyone reading my blog - breath any time you need to - don't let the punctuation or lack there of determine when you need to breath. gasp....) Even with all that, I had a burning desire to knit Christmas stockings for us. I think that the knitting of Christmas memorabilia is enough for me this year. And the good news is that I don't even have to water it or string lights on it or anything!

A quick side note about shopping with men. In order to get men in yarn stores, you must have a gimmick. Mine is the bathroom. I know it sounds odd, but it's true. But it makes sense when you think about it. When I use the bathroom at Joanne's it looks like a bomb went off with paper towels and toilet paper all over the floor - pee on some of the toilet seats - no toilet paper in the one stall that looked safe - etc. When Todd goes to the bathroom at Joanne's he has to switch the light on because no one has used it since the last time he visited the store! He said that it as fresh as a daisy!! You have to admit that the ratio of men in a yarn store is very slim to none. With most men standing there just holding their wife's purse or just trying to patiently wait while their significant other makes their choices. Looking sheepishly around hoping that no one - especially their buddy would see them. So.....if he doesn't mind actually going into a yarn store because the of the bathroom, I'm not going to critique the reason.

Any who, without further ado - the stocking that you have all been waiting for:
It will have Todd's name on it when I'm through - I just need to put duplicate stitch it into the top red section. Pretty professional - eh?

It is quite large as seen here with my cat ruler:

That's all I know for now (which is not a lot I have to admit). I need to get to my Christmas cards which I have to admit I am just getting to today. So if I don't get back to my blog until after Christmas (which I'm afraid is what is going to happen) - Have a great holiday and watch the Egg Nog consumption!! Merry Christmas!