A Stocking, A Sampler and A Chick Flick

All of a Sunday afternoon....

I sat down this afternoon and put the stocking on the Q-Snaps -- a bit of a task, actually, with the stiff fabric and the thick stitches that the perle coton makes. I put a piece of tissue paper over the stitching to try to protect it a little bit. Anyway, I put Sense & Sensibility (the afore-mentioned chick flick) in the DVD player and stitched away with Jane Austen. The top half of the stocking dude's shirt is done, as are the candy canes. I was glad to get those out of the way. They weren't hard, just kind of fiddly.


After I finished the candy canes, I decided to lay aside the stocking and work for just a little bit on Anna. Most of the progress you see is from last night, but I put in a couple of letters and a few repetitions of the wavy border before I put her away.

On the decorating front, I stopped by Lowe's yesterday and picked up some paint chips. One color that caught my eye was called "Fragrant Coriander" and I really liked it at first. Then I looked at it a little longer and decided against it for a couple of reasons. It's kind of a dark gold and I really want to go with something a little more neutral for this room. I think something with more brown undertones will give me more flexiblity with the colors for the chair covering and whatever I hang on the window with the lace curtains. Also, the more I looked at the gold, the more I thought that it's kind of the color of ... of ... well, of cat barf. Sorry, but it is. I clean enough of that off the floor; I don't fancy having it on the walls as well.

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Hoping everyone has a great week -- happy stitching!