okra: Cold (chicken) Feet

The snow finally began to melt this weekend. I can see most of my lawn again now. Maybe the chickens will come out of their house today. They have absolutely refused to come out since the snow storm hit. All three of them rush up to the door, stick their heads out, see snow, and then turn around and get back on their perch. Snow would be pretty cold on bare feet. Maybe I should make them some booties. Haha, just kidding... or am I?

No, really the only socks I'm making at the moment are Christmas stockings. I promise. (Sorry chickens.) For some reason Keith realllly wanted to have stockings this year for Christmas. We went to Target to look at them and I wasn't overly impressed. They were either too expensive or too cheesy. So, I decided that I would make some for us. I went to the fabric store yesterday and got some felt and cut out two stockings. I used the Martha Stewart templates for the shape (oh la la). I hand sewed a green star on Keith's red stocking with red thread. I machine sewed some ribbon at the top and then sewed all the way around. But let's get one thing straight here: I'm really pretty stinky at sewing on a machine. I can sometimes manage to sew in a straight line. Yesterday was not really one of those times. I also discovered that I can't really sew on a curve either. Haha. I did finish the first stocking, and it's ok, but it's also kinda funny looking around the edge. I'll probably have to fix it up a little. I'm thinking about just sewing the second one by hand.