yeah.
i think i really did it this time.
Hobby Lobby is going to be the death of me.
the good news is that i will probably die insanely happy. the bad news is that i will also be insanely frustrated. and poor. very very poor :)
one of the belated birthday presents i got was, of course, a Hobby Lobby gift card. it was, of course, one of the best present EvEr. i had to wait until i had a shopping list for the store, and then i had to wait again until i could remove (most of) the list so that i would not spend more of my own money than i had to.
fail.
but anyway, since i had just recently re-found and finished a simple cross-stitch project from a good number of years ago (8-12 are all good numbers, right?) i decided maybe i wanted to try another one. it didn't take very long to narrow down the selections to 2, then a bit more deliberation and i chose one of the Lord's Prayer with a pretty border, a good price tag, and didn't look too complicated.
fail.
at least a week went by before i had any time to look at it, and when i did…
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yeah… there's only about 30 colors of floss in a wad that i had to separate, and THEN figure out which one is light blue, or is it periwinkle, light periwinkle, or dark periwinkle or lavender?
yeah… THEN if you take ONE strand of the off-white and combine it with ONE strand of cream then you get a whole new color with its own symbol on the chart!!
THEN i looked at the chart, and wondered if i had enough Excedrin to demolish the migraine i got that was the size of Wisconsin.
the despair that i felt… oh my word! i'd never have the patience to do this!! what on earth was i thinking?!!? i had no idea where to start.
i chose NOT the middle, which is what the instructions said. that sounded dumb. who starts ANYTHING right in the middle? that's right- NOBODY.
well, i decided to kick myself into starting by saying that the hardest part is the first stitch.
i may blog again in 90 years when i am overcome by arthritis, can't read the chart or thread a needle, and the blasted thing still isn't done and tell you that it's not true.
but the thing is, i started. after 3 long, intense stitching sessions, i have for the most part complete just over 2 square inches.
perspective: this is an 11x14 cross-stitch. thankfully, the middle is mostly empty except for the words, but still… there's alot of border.
the only question: will my stubbornness carry me through, or will my patience give out? i know myself too well, and as i already confessed, it took me a decade to both start AND finish a tiny little cross stitch with only 6 colors, none of this 30+ colors stuff.
since i'm recovering from a different migraine, i shall only look at the pile of neatly categorized-in-a-heap cross-stitch stuff and be thankful that i began. and for the pancakes i made for dinner :) and tea :) so many other things i could have blogged about, but this one is staring back at me now. the ten other blogs running through my head still need to be processed or it would just look like a foreign language to anyone who reads this.
if anyone reads this…
if you want to do something (provided it's safe, healthy, legal and doesn't compromise your ethical and moral guidelines or threaten another life)… go do it! the hardest part is the first stitch (so far)!!!
and no, i don't know why i capitalize Hobby Lobby and almost nothing else ever.
'Glad to hear the project is underway! =)
ReplyDeleteHaha, I don't know about the first item on the list though - safe activities oftentimes just aren't as fun as some of the more precarious ones... (For example, hosting a fencing competition with slightly modified pool cues still ranks as an all-time high among my list of Colorado adventures, even if I did only make it up to third-place). ^_^;