Not a creature was stirring – new Christmas cross stitch chart
Hello thready folk – It’s been mustard here – I finally got a temporary job over Christmas, after spending the last year job hunting. So although it’s only 4 hour shifts I’m out of the house 5 days a week for work as well as doing 4-5 hours worth of family taxi each day. It’s a blur. Currently trying to get on top of cleaning before the decorations go up – I’m putting them up tomorrow hopefully.
Are yours up yet, and if you don’t celebrate Christmas, do you have a big clear out at particular times of the year or just as you go along? – I’m definitely a boom or bust type, I either do the whole lot or none of it.
This little stitchery pretty much captures what state I want to be in on Christmas Eve though, tucked up in bed with the place looking all tidy and cosy.
It is of course based on a line from the Clement C Moore poem “The Night before Christmas” My dad used to be able to recite much of it from memory and he’d normally have a go at it on Christmas Eve, I was chuffed that my husband continued the tradition with our kids. There’s a rather excellent copy of the poem in book form illustrated by the British illustrator Christian Birmingham, if you haven’t seen it you must google it – the illustrations are perfection, I have lost count of how many times I’ve thumbed through our copy just taking in the details.
In my cross stitch chart, ‘Not a creature was stirring’ my little mouse friend is tucked up under his patchwork quilt, in his little wooden bed. His tiny stocking hung on the bedpost. Outside the snow is falling but his neat little apartment is warmed by the pot bellied stove.
I hope people have fun stitching the little details such as the portrait in a frame above the bed and the little mug on the stove!
The chart is available as a pdf download in my Etsy store, Little Nest Emporium.
Even if you are not a stitcher, feel free to pop over for a nosey, general feedback is always welcome!
One of the things I like to do with my cross stitch charts if possible, is to supply an option for stitching on dark fabrics.
