Thursday, January 1, 2015

New Beginnings!!

I am looking forward to the new year and new beginnings! I have hope that this year I will finally get my health issues more under control and that I will also learn to live with my new normal.

Remember this?

I was diligently working along on it and was ready to start the church to the right of that house with the green shutters when it occurred to me - with horror, I might add - that I didn't have enough fabric to even do the church, let alone the things to the right of the church! I counted and re-counted and it was true. I had started my project with the fabric going the wrong way. I had the fabric on a scroll bar and somehow in my mind, I thought it should go on the way I put it, but nope - it needed to go the other way. I can't tell you how upset I was. So much so, that I put away all my cross stitch and decided I didn't want to stitch again, ever! I think because I was so sick, this was just too much for me to deal with. I'm happy to report that I have picked up my needle again and am working on this

Here's my progress so far


Sorry the picture looks more yellow than it really is. I'm using a fabric very similar to the one in the packet. I haven't decided what to do about the Christmas village. The thought of picking out all those stitches makes me horribly sad. I'm not even sure I want to work on it again, but I've just set it aside for now and will decide at a later date. Has this ever happened to you?

Blessings - Julie

4 comments:

  1. Your ornament is really cute! I used to love to cross stitch. I feel your pain about tearing out. I am doing it often with my new knitting. I wonder if there is a way you can graft a new piece of fabric on the end and just hide it with the stitches? Especially, if it is in a picture you might see a slight bump but it would be less disheartening than ripping out all of those beautiful stitiches, that is what I would do and then your peace has a story to tell :)

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  2. Oh Julie, how disheartening. Maybe you could just stitch a bit more to finish it off in a new, partial way? It wouldn't be the same, but it wouldn't be tossed out either.
    Your new stitch is cute.
    Happy, Blessed New Year!

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  3. Glad to hear you have picked up the needle again, a sweet small project is probably just want you need to get going again!

    It has never happened to me but I always check check and check again which way the fabric needs to be as I am always so scared of getting it wrong!

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  4. That is a bummer! I'm like you, I do not like starting something over or having to redo something. Glad you picked it back up. I love cross-stitch, though I haven't done it for a long time.

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