Blue Stocking

with Snowflake

I don't even recall how I came up with the idea, but the fact that my sister gave me yards and yards of light blue felt I wasn't particularly fond of probably had something to do with it...

Initially I was very unhappy with this piece, because I didn't feel the snowflake came out well. It's grown on me; the real difficulty was that it didn't come out the way I imagined it. One of the joys of making these things is that folks more or less have to take what they get, since they're gifts, not commissions. At the same time, I try to ``fit'' the stockings in some way to the recipients, which gives me a starting point---the best of both worlds. As the recipient is very tidy and precise, the geometry of a snowflake turned out to be a good choice, so everything worked out well.

Made about the same time as the winnie-the-pooh stocking, it too features a tassel near the hanging loop.