Having a stormy morning, the kids are begging to play outside. I’m going to have to come up with compromise. I am not an outside in the rain person, not anymore anyway. So before I have a riot on my hands, I’d better get to blogging.
I seem to be slowing down a bit, I don’t know if I am just tired, or if the pieces are more intricate, or what, but it is taking me forever to get anything done.
I cut out piece 52, them cut out and appliqued the red stripes numbered 53-57 to it.
,Kind of hard to believe this took me two days. But it does look nice!
The instructions wanted me to sew the back of the stocking to the front, but I was afraid I would sew the stocking shut while attaching pieces. So we will see if this paid off or if this was a big mistake.
I skipped ahead.
The next day I started working on the wheels. This was quite a project! So per the instructions I cut out the green spokes numbered 60, and appliqued that piece the black piece numbered 59. 
Then I cut out the red piece that goes on top of that. Number 61. 
Then sequined it and appliqued it in place.
Then I cut out the back, and made my index card insert.
Appliqued the pieces together and stuffed it. 
I realized once I appliqued the wheel to the stocking, that I really needed the other wheels in place, so I could determine how to position the large wheel to get the drive shaft in the correct place. So I took it back off and set it aside while I worked on the other wheels. That blog post will be up later in the week. My children are screaming jibberish at each other!
- Jaded
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