On to the topic of the post. Lee posted this month's SBQ, asking about projects that just don't "do it" for us any more:
How about you? Is there anything that's still calling (and emailing and texting) you, but you are SO not interested in it anymore.
This was an easy one for me because there's one above all others that I'm just not interested in any more. In 1999, The Cross Stitcher magazine (USA mag, not British) published a Joan Elliot design called "The Angel of Cross Stitch". It uses every DMC color and it really is a pretty design. I, of course, charged out to the LNS and bought my linen and started pulling together the flosses for different sections and set to work. This is as far as I got:
This is maybe a quarter of the design. I'm not sure when I last worked on her; I know I moved to this house in 2008 and I haven't stitched on her since I've lived here. One side of me -- the practical side -- wants to just put her in the UFO pile and be done with it, while the sentimental side keeps thinking that I might actually pick this up and stitch on it again. I know that's not likely, and it's made even more unlikely by the fact that if I need a color of DMC and can't find it in my floss box, I usually find it in and take it from the flosses that I had pulled for this. So I just don't think that finishing her is going to happen in the foreseeable future.
That's it for tonight...happy stitching, everyone!
3 comments:
Hmmm. I'd love to see a pic of the whole design. I guess I'll try and google it. I can understand being done with it though -- one's tastes change so much over time.
Believe it or not I have actually stitched this. I didn't us original chart from the magazine but a kit with 34 colors. It took me 9 months of on and off stitching to finish it last year. I do understand how you feel.
I do understand how you feel, our tastes change. I have actually tossed a couple of old projects that were so outdated I knew they would never be finished.
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