I Do Love Sunday Afternoons

Especially when they're peaceful and quiet and I can get in some good stitching time.  I pulled out the stocking to work on and you can see that I made some decent progress.

The blue bit and the few brown stitches where I left off are the start of the wing and the back of the head.  The chart calls for stitching the hair with the brown and then stitching over it with French knots using brown Alpaca.  I don't know if I have any in my stash; I may have to make a trip to the LNS.  Darn, I hate when that happens.

I discovered a couple of weeks ago that we are getting a Hobby Lobby just up the road. in the building where a large local supermarket was before it relocated.  I think that Hobby Lobby is the best of the "big box" craft stores -- they have fabric!  Don't get me wrong; the "big boxes" are by no means a replacement for the LNS or the local quilt shop (LQS?) but sometimes they do come in handy (although I doubt I'll find Alpaca there).  And I admire the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain for upholding their convictions and not opening their stores on Sunday.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon in a nice cool movie theatre with the last installment of Harry Potter and if you're a fan, definitely see it.  It's excellent.  Several people applauded at the end, and one man stood up and shouted, "Thank you!" at the screen.  I didn't go quite that far but I did enjoy it.  I think that overall the series was very well-done and well-cast -- can you imagine anyone else but Alan Rickman as Snape?  I popped movie 1 in the DVD player to "watch" whilst I stitched today.

Here's hoping that everyone has a good week -- happy stitching!