It's Christmas stocking time

 It's too hot !

Christmas in July                          







I opened the box that Alice stored all that I needed
to continue the tradition.

  Every family has a tradition and when I married into my husbands family it was Christmas stockings. My mother in law made stockings for all her kids and as her children married she made stockings for their spouses. So for the last six months long before baby Jack was born I have been hearing from everyone that I need to make baby Jack his Christmas stocking. My mother in law Alice gave me the box full of treasures with everything she used on her Christmas Stockings

including the home made pattern she used in the 1950’s. The box is like a time capsule of Christmas.



All the goodies I have to sew on Baby Jack's 
Christmas stocking. 

 So add this to my list of Christmas in July projects. I needed to find the felt in Christmas colors and keep the tradition alive this summer. I don’t want to rush at the last minute trying to make the Christmas stocking . Luckily Linda and I found some green colored felt when we went on our test drive for the quilt show.



 No fancy pattern a plain paper bag made into 
a stocking pattern.

 Another tradition my hubby’ family has is Santa. When I first married into the family someone would dress up in the Santa suit. We would hear Santa ringing his Christmas bell and everyone would act like Santa was making a personal Christmas eve visit. The door would open and Alice would be all excited greeting Santa. Back then there were no grandkids yet to see Santa . So it was funny to see all these adults going along with a Santa visit. Santa would ask have you been a good girl or boy? Then hand you a present. Everyone acted like it was the real deal. Someone would ask about the reindeers and how Rudolph was doing it was so funny! There were hugs for Santa and Santa telling us he had other homes to visit that night. I sometimes wonder what the neighbors thought if they looked out their window and saw Santa standing at the doorway. Lol!

Earlier in the evening Alice had taken all the presents and put them in Santa’s bag. so it was so spot on in a reenactment. It was so embarrassingly funny in this conservative family to have such a light hearted tradition. Totally unexpected but really a great tradition. Well of course Megan wants the tradition to continue . Santa’s suit is hanging in our closet waiting for Grandpa Jack to continue a family tradition that is dear to my hubby’s family this Christmas Eve. I am sure I am not the only one with family traditions at Christmas. The torch has been passed to me and as I open the treasured Christmas stocking box I think of all of us women who love family and continue what our mothers or grandmothers started as we bridge time by continuing what they began so long ago. Cheri
 
 
 

                                                  My newest project rug I am working on.I added a gobble
                                                  and the words Give thanks which I am still hooking,