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cats, cross stitch, embroidery, Pooh, refashioning, sewing, Shelby, swears, WIP Wednesday
WIP = Work in Progress
Content warning: Swears
Happy Wednesday, everybody!
I hope you all had a lovely week, whether or not it contained a winter holiday. We had a fun long weekend here, with SO much good food and music and lights and presents and SNOW!
Maybe only 3 inches or so, but it hung around for Xmas, the first white Xmas I can recall in the time I’ve lived here.
And I did finish my two rude cross-stitch gifts, even if I had to stay up until 3:00 a.m. on Xmas morning to do it.
The one on the left was for my sister, the right for my partner, and they loved them! My partner’s immediately went up on the front of the fridge, and my sister told me she HAD to take hers to work. She works at a Catholic hospital, so I’m not sure how that’s going to work out. 😉
What takes me so long on projects like these is being indecisive. How to finish them? Took me FOREVER to make a damn decision; I finally decided to give them these borders and ties so that they could be hung like a picture or put on a doorknob. Regular frames just seemed too stuffy for them and I couldn’t come up with a way to keep them in a hoop and yet make them look finished.
My sister’s present for me hasn’t arrived yet, but she did bring me this little item:
Another Pusheen sweatshirt! And even bigger than last time, but this one is made of nice, thick sweatshirt fleece. Will need to ponder how I want to refashion this.
Before I do anything, though, I still have two presents to finish up, which I’ll try to do this next week. I’m kind of ready for the holidays to be over so that I can get back to my quilts and other projects (and make use of that Joann’s gift card that Santa brought me!)
I’m ready to move on to 2018!
Have a wonderful week, and I hope all your 2017 loose ends are getting tidied up. Happy 2018 to all!
STH