I'm pretty much a life time crafter. I started with the Fisher Price needlepoint boxes with the pictures on them. My first box (probably the unicorn) had so many knots and snarls and what nots on the back that it was undoubtedly too full to actually use as a box. My first counted cross-stitch was a unicorn (hey, I was a young girl!) with a rainbow and a sun and a hill with a big mistake. The sun was setting on the hill leaving the rainbow hanging partway over the unicorn's head like a giant inverted J.
Crafting has definitely taught me many things.
1. Mistakes happen. Fix them, fudge them. Deal with them and move on. Thankfully, there are fewer mistakes as I become more comfortable with the crafts, but tiredness or inattention will get me every time.
2. It won't get done if you don't work on it.
This is most true of cross-stitch. An hour or two of knitting and unless you are working on a huge shawl (one with the monster 300+ stitch rows) you have something to show for it. A repeat or two of a lace pattern, shaping, maybe a sleeve cap. In cross-stitch, an hour or two gives you this small splotch of color. Near the end of a project, you are finishing stuff up, adding backstitch, beads, detail and that hour is a moment of transformation. But now? Now it is just a splotch.
Meet the splotch. This is my version of Goodfortune Fish. I'm almost halfway done with the first fish, but even now it is still a yellow splotch. I am hoping to finish this by the end of this year, but I only work on it a few times a week over my lunch breaks. Of course, I didn't center the pattern on the fabric like I normally do, so it looks a little lop sided. Easily fixable when I do the finishing work.
The border (yeah, the boring part) took me over a year to do, but I wasn't working on it regularly. Of course, I am pretty sure I know which cross-stitch project I'll end up doing next. Up to my eyeballs in Kreinik.
Easter is coming soon, and that will mean more tasty half price chocolates (yeah, I shop the day after). My hubby was out and he got me a package of these. Guess which one is me?
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