Christmas Stocking

"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?"

The age old un-answerable question. I don't really care about the answer, but for a year and a half now I have wondered about my own un-answerable question: "How many hours does it take to finish a cross stitch Christmas stocking?"

6 Seasons plus 7 episodes of Supernatural. That's how long. 

I finished my first stocking in about one year. It was horrible and I hated every minute of it. Except when I got to switch which color I was using because the weird nerdy part of me gets excited about that kind of thing. Not to mention this stocking is one large game of "find the mistakes".

 It is pretty messy on the back (the garland especially)

 Santa's eyes are uneven, and his glasses are lopsided

His arm has ALL sorts of mistakes

 I started on my second stocking immediately after. It was a significantly easier pattern, I learned a better cross-stitching technique, and I started the series "Supernatural" at the same time. I love Supernatural, but it is a little too boring to watch without doing something else at the same time. Every time I picked up my cross stitch I turned on Netflix. 133 episodes later and I have a finished work of art, minus the fact that it isn't actually a stocking yet.

The back is a lot cleaner on this one.

And now we are one big happy family of stockings. YAY.