Long Over-due "To-do's" Are ~ Ta Da! ~ Done!!!

I finally finished up some projects that having been sitting too, too, long....(You know that phenomena where the longer they sit, the harder they are to pick up....and pretty soon it feels like you have a herd of monkeys on your back? Yeah, well that's what it feels like to me!)

Anywhohow.....finished up a few finally:

My hooked Christmas stocking.....I have despised our Christmas stockings for years now....they're the cutesy-wootsey, kitschy, things from the '80's (uh...1980's - NOT 1880's....) So, last year, I got this bright idea to hook us some new ones. Ok, maybe it wasn't my "best" idea - but it sounded good at the time.....) This is a design by my pal, Cathy, at Red Barn Rugs - she has designed several wonderful Christmas stockings - and I thought how hard can it be to hook 3 stockings??? Well....lemme tell you - it wasn't the hooking that did me in, but all the hand stitching....No not - the pretty embroidery kind of stitching, but down-in-the-trenches, haul out the big needles, kind of stuff.....YUCK!!  It's backed with the same wool as I used on the cuff, and has the coolest lining (which, try as I might, I could not photograph while trying to hold the stocking open at the same time....)

One down, two to go......Arghhh (don't hold your breath - I DON'T do CPR!!)

And.....my needle felted purse.....

Purse pattern/design is also from Red Barn Rugs, but the felted design is just a free-hand ditty I did.....

My favorite part....the lining....

And my needle punched sheep.....(This I punched a while ago, but needed to frame or finish somehow....)  This is "Shear Pride" by Shawn Williams of Threads That Bind....

Ta Da!!! And, that's it!! Now back to goofing off!

:o)