Holy crap, people! Tuesday night I finished a project that I’ve had on the burner for about 5 years. When Mike went to Corning on contract at World Kitchen, I lived in my apartment above the Smoking Man all alone for the whole summer. The guy would sit in his basement apartment, smoke, and occasionally cough up a lung for 10 minutes. I’m not kidding. I couldn’t even keep the windows open some days because the smell of his nasty-ass, stale cigarette smoke would waft into my whole apartment. I was just waiting for the day he’d show up with a trache, or an oxygen tank, but I moved out before that. Anyway, my roommate Nuriat wasn’t moving in until the fall, so I had the place to my self. That would have been great if all my friends hadn’t left Rochester, and Mike wasn’t 2 hours away. My mother suggested I pick up a project at the craft store because I get like an ADD child when I’m bored. Needless to say, I needed something to keep myself busy.
I bought a pretty fruit and vegetable counted cross stitch sampler at JoAnn’s — the only one that didn’t have frou-frou flowers or blue lacey things all over it. I worked on it religiously for a while, but eventually I forgot about it when Mike came back. I picked it up from time to time to work on it for a couple of hours here and there, so it’s been at various states of completion since the spring of 2000!
I’ve wanted to take up a new hobby lately. My mother knits circles around everybody, and I’ve really wanted to learn so I could take up the torch! But this cross stich project has been hanging over my head for so long, that I couldn’t justify starting the knitting before I finished it. The instant I sewed the last stitch, I ironed it and ran out to JoAnn’s to get it framed! Damn thing is going to cost me 80 bucks, but it’s worth it. The framing lady asked if I’d be making another one, to which I replied, “Absolutely not.”
When I get it back from the framers, I can post a picture if anyone’s interested.
*UPDATE* Here’s a picture I scanned from the kit package. That’s pretty much exactly how it looks.
