A Little Reality Check
Well, as anyone who has had a near-cross stitch experience can tell you, it was quite a harrowing ordeal. My future blogging life flashed before my eyes with such titles as "Maybe going to finish TWO projects this year" and "I gained another inch today." I would have to start handing out "I.O.U." cards instead of gifts....er, that is, more often than I do now. If THAT isn't enough to set a knitter quivering down to the very bottom of her WIP pile, I don't know what is. Taking a page from the vaccination idea, tonight I dug out this and worked on it for 20 minutes. I think this is an "after" picture, though it hardly matters. I'm not doing the best job in the world on this as I've gone all sorts of directions & the threads are crossing every which way, but I'm 40 now, and by the time I finish this sucker no one I know will have the eye sight to notice its flaws. Just in case this was not a thorough enough inoculat...