PROJECT OF THE WEEK (read year)

love you so long

I am nothing if not optimistic when it comes to embarking on craft projects. Even when I have had only a little or no experience at something, if it comes it kit form, I am pretty sure I can give it a whirl. I have to say I swooned a little when I saw these cross stitch iphone covers on the Purl Bee website many moons ago so I was very excited to find them in Morris and Sons. So I picked up some embroidery thread, drew up some ideas and off I went. Well...

It took me a year people. To cap it all off it's far from perfect. You can see the pattern got increasingly complicated as time went on. I learnt a lot about cross stitch and myself in that time. It's a deceptive craft in that it's simple but can go terribly wrong fairly quickly (knots!wrong direction!broken needle!broken heart!) and as for me well I may be very very very slow, but by god I will finish things. Might buy another one now...RAMONA