Parenting crisis? Crafting crisis?

 

It is less than 6 weeks until Christmas.  This is Vi's stocking. I think I might hate it.  The thread is wretched.  Literally, no sooner than I thread the needle, the thread twists and kinks into a knot.  And it does that over and over.  I spend more time unknotting and when that isn't possible, clipping, running the tail end under, rethreading, and securing the new tail.  It is of the devil, I'm sure of it.