Winning Christmas
In spite of the busy weekend:
A point for me!
It’s one thing to read 22″ in the pattern description, it’s quite another to see a 22″ stocking in real life. I could fit a cat in there if they were more cooperative. The only change I made was to the toe shaping, I wanted it to look like a sock toe.
I haven’t looked at my email since I got home (I will check it real quick now for anything Urgent), but I’ve got to finish my last sock pattern for RubySapphire. I am about halfway through the second sock and Tivo is full of all the shows we missed last week, so it shouldn’t take too long.
Chuck and Pushing Daisies are my two favorite new shows this season. Pushing Daisies is already on my list of Greatest TV Shows of All Time - not just because Emerson is a Knitter.
The current score: Emily - 4 Christmas - 2 (I get a point for the stocking, Christmas gets a point for the chocolate-filled advent calendars in World Market, I get another point because I have already eaten up to Day 12)
October 17th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
If you do get a cat in there, we need photographic proof.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Love your stocking!!! I feel so behind on Christmas and it isn’t even Halloween!! LOL!!
I LOVE Pushing Up Daisies….I feel like I’m watching some kind of Dr. Suess program!! LOL!! Love Chuck….Reapers….several good ones this year!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I really want to see that stocking with a cat in it. LOL! Chocolate filled Advent calendars? That’s just cruel.
I guess I’m going to have to check out Pushing Up Daisies.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
The stocking looks great!
October 17th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
The stocking looks great! And I love Pushing Daisies, too! I just about killed myself laughing at the beginning of episode 2 (won’t spoil it for those who haven’t watched it yet). The dialog is very witty - reminds me of Gilmore Girls.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Emily
I LOVE the sock. I mean stocking. It is darling. Great work again!
October 17th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Emily
I LOVE the sock. I mean stocking. It is darling. Great work again!
October 17th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
That is a great stocking!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:25 am
The stocking is really lovely! Xmas hasn’t even remotely crossed my mind…so good for you! I also adore Pushing Daisies and think it’s the best new thing on TV right now. Emerson has definitely won my heart with his stockinette stitch.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:46 am
The Christmas sock is very cute. For socks such as these, the bigger the better, right? And it’s so funny to read that you’ve eaten chocs from the Advent calendar already
:) I can’t stop grinning at the thought!
October 18th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Now, a photo of the cat in there would certainly make for one very festive Christmas card!
October 18th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
My DH complains that my stocking is too small and he can’t fit much in. I told him it’s just right for a BIG gifts certificate to Seed Stitch Fine Yarn. He doesn’t have to get me anything else, LOL. BTW, like your sock!
October 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I LOVE LOVE LOVE CHuck and Pushing Daisies! I also love Reaper. Pushing Daisies has that fairy tale quality, like Lemony SNicket.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
O.K. I am with the first commenter above! If you manage to get one of your cats in the stocking that would make for a lovely Christmas card and proof of course:)
From your previous post it sounds like you had a nice relaxing time on your trip. Good for you!
October 19th, 2007 at 5:01 am
You are so smart to be working on Xmas stuff now. Every Xmas I **say** I’m going to do that exact same thing. So now you have xmas ornaments and a stocking. Are you making two?
October 19th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Where are the other two? Boy, you are a slacker.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
We love Chuck, too. So suspenseful, and yet so funny!
October 20th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Emily, your stocking is so much better looking than the source picture. The toe is a definite improvement, and I like the yarn better too. They should have consulted you before printing, and you could have set them straight…Ha-ha. I still like the book, though….Melanie Falick is one of my favorites in the knitting world.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Love the stocking…. and I’m loving the new show Chuck myself. I’ve only seen one episode of Pushing Daisies and loved the fact that one of the characters knits
You going to SAFF???
October 24th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Love the stocking! It has a great old-fashioned feel to it.
If Christmas starts to gain on you it sounds like you could get another couple quick points by polishing off the advent chocolates.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Nice Sock. Really nice sock.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I love your stocking. I have been thinking of starting some in the very near future, and seeing yours has made me want to start right away.:)
October 29th, 2007 at 3:49 am
That is so cute! I’ve avoided knitting the Christmas stocking, but this year have taken on what I can only describe as a “sweater garland” for a knitted holiday projected. That is–make a bunch of teeny sweaters with all my left-over yarn, and string them together to make a garland for the tree.
I have completed exactly one sweater….took me an evening. How many days until Christmas?