Advent Calendar Day 17

The pocket for Day 17 of my elder daughter's Advent Calendar contained another cross stitch item stitched by her younger sister and assembled by me. The picture on the pocket was connected to the contents by its shape and a joke as it is a round figgy pudding and the cross stitch picture was a very round Father Christmas who had been indulging in too much figgy pudding after all that sleigh riding! 

Day 17 pocket

Father Christmas cross stitch decoration
with ribbon trim depicting his Christmas eve travels

Front of the Father Christmas cross stitch decoration

Back of the Father Christmas cross stitch decoration

My elder daughter laughed a lot when she saw the decoration - I think Father Christmas's sticking out hands made her giggle the most.