The Twelve Days of Christmas are winding
down. It's almost January 6th, which is Epiphany!
The Day of Twelve Drummers Drumming is also my birthday, which is another reason I like to celebrate all the days between Christmas and Twelfth Night.
In 567 the Council of Tours proclaimed that the entire period between Christmas and Epiphany should be considered part of the Christmas celebration, creating what became known as the twelve days of Christmas (or what the English called Christmastide). On the last of the twelve days, called Twelfth Night, various cultures developed a wide range of additional special festivities. The variation extends even to the issue of how to count the days. If Christmas Day is the first of the twelve days, then Twelfth Night would be on January 5, the eve of Epiphany. If December 26, the day after Christmas, is the first day, then Twelfth Night falls on January 6, the evening of Epiphany itself.
I've been enjoying time with my family and haven't had a chance to share some of the projects I completed lately. College Girl is a fan of Finding Bigfoot. She says it's the funniest television show she's ever seen. I think she's seen every episode. She saw a Sasquatch stocking online and asked if we could make one for her. So I purchased some nice felt, then she helped cut out the pieces. We layered all the cut pieces over a blue stocking base, which would show at the top and look like the night sky.
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| the layered pieces are ready to be stitched down |
We used a pattern we found here
for the Sasquatch silhouette. I cut out trees from green felt and snow from off-white felt. I decided the stocking wouldn't need a lining since I was using such a thick, sturdy blue felt as the base. The scene I built from the trees and snow added stability, too. Since felt doesn't fray, I just top stitched all the scenery pieces down to the snow or mountain. I changed our stocking up from those we had seen online by adding a fur cuff and moon. To add the fur cuff I placed a circular/tube shaped strip of fur on the inside of the stocking (right side fur to wrong side of stocking), stitched a 1/4 inch seam around the top edge and folded the fur out over the top of the stocking. Ta da...here it is!
I have to show you one more thing that
College Girl. This little guy has been on her wish list for a few years but somehow never got made. While I had the sewing machine warmed up and plenty of felt at the ready, I made a quick pattern from paper and crafted up an Ice Bat!
Here is Ice Bat waiting patiently for College Girl on Christmas morning. I think he felt right at home in the snowy Bigfoot stocking!
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