Last time I reported on my Christmas in July project, the Santa Train was being chased by a headless snowman. Poor guy! At least he got a head (ahead?) in Week 9, but it would be two more weeks before the snowman was finally able to climb aboard the train.
The snowman’s face had a lot of embroidery. Anymore, I need help seeing the lines on the felt for embroidery, and also seeing to thread the beading needle for sewing on sequins. Charles’s old reading glasses do the trick! With my bifocals and his reading glasses, I can see really well at a very specific distance from my eyeballs. Just an inch further or closer, and everything goes out of focus. Charles fondly calls me “six eyes” during these times.
Anything with stripes quickly runs through my quota of ten pieces per week. For instance, on the snowman’s scarf, each red stripe is one piece, plus two red fringe pieces. It doesn’t seem like I made much progress in Week 10, but I definitely used ten pieces.
In Week 11, the snowman got his arms, and I could finally sew him onto the train. He still needed a candy cane to help stabilize his grip on the engine. Yep, the candy cane is another stripey piece that stretched out over two weeks.
I finished the snowman’s candy cane in Week 12, and started a second cane.
Four weeks to go! I’ll be sewing little gifts and ornaments to decorate the train. Yay!