So… I may have over-committed.
At the end of August so pleased was I with my “30for30crafting”
exploits that I decided to take on a cross-stitch for a friend’s baby who had
just been born. It was a Dr Who themed affair, quite large but with a good
amount of empty space so I figured it was fairly doable.
The weekend after I’d bought the pattern and all of the
threads was another friend’s baby’s christening, and we were to become God
parents. It may surprise some parents to know that neither of us are from
God-parenting church backgrounds, so we were somewhat underprepared for the
situation in terms of gifts, and a friend staying with us that weekend persuaded
me that another cross-stitch would be the perfect, thoughtful gift, and wouldn’t
need to be ready before Christmas. So I scoured the internet and found a ‘Noah’s
Ark’ kit (I really wanted to do this Bothy Threads one but it’s MASSIVE and
very intricate… I was trying to be sensible!) which arrived shortly afterwards.
Well, this is the volume of Aida I have to fill:
Eek! Noah’s ark is about twice as big as I expected, and I’m
losing the plot a little. Godson’s birthday is in March so I think he may have
to wait until then. In the meantime (and in the two weeks since I started this
post and never managed to finish it) I’ve made some headway with Dr Who. As a consequence I have lots of blue and black ORTS:
Maybe there is hope for me yet! No chance of using the
beautiful wool my parents bought me from Scotland when they went last month
though. All new projects are frozen until at least one of these is complete!
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| Isn’t it beautiful? That’s just what colour the sheep are, no dye has been used. |
EDIT: Forgot to include the link for the TUSAL. See more jars of thread here!
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