Busy Santa and Canine Quotes

This is my progress on Stitchrovia's "Busy Santa".  I have worked on it for 14 days since starting it August 11th.  I really like it and have enjoyed watching it grow.  I have to say I am in love with all the little Santa's! Curling the toes of the boots up really has cuffed me.

The above photo is a must have for me.  "Canine Quotes" from The Scarlett House is just perfect and fits my home and life to a "T".  I will be ordering it when it becomes available at 123 Stitch! 💛💛💛
 

Meet Busy Sandi, I mean Santa!

Meet the new design I working on.  It is from Stitchrovia and it is called Busy Santa.  I had seen a vintage kit on E-Bay a while back.  It was one of those felt ornament kits where you cut out the felt shapes and then put them together to create a something.  It was maybe 12 Christmas Santa ornaments.  The toes of Santa's boots were curled up and he was engaging in various activities.  I loved it but not the price so I sadly did not purchase it.  I have been looking for it again.  I loved the vintage style Santa and the vintage colors and actually everything about it.  One day not too long ago I saw the above design on Etsy.  It so reminded me of that kit except that there weren't any curled toes on the boots.  I showed it to my mother and she said I could easily put in a few stitches to curl the toes.  I wondered why I hadn't thought of that.

So here we have my 8 day progress and roughly 19 hours and 55 minutes of stitching.  It seems probably a good 5 hours of that is unstitching.  More so then any recent project I can't seem to stitch things correctly to save my entire family's life.  It is definitely darling and I am in love with it.  I began this project  August 11th and have worked on it each day except August 17th.  I am stitching it on a mushroom colored 28 count lugana which adds to the vintage look.  And look, I curled his boot toes!  They look great!

Look at Santa's face!!!!  It is perfect!  The designer certainly is talented.  There is another one of Stitchrovia's on Etsy I want to stitch called Santa's Coming.  I haven't purchased it but I will when I am closer to finished with Busy Santa. 

Santa's Coming Cross Stitch Pattern digital Format - Etsy

The good news is it is football season and stitching season is in full swing as I cheer on my Superbowl Champions!