Lisa Ashby » Stitching http://www.lisaashby.com Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:48:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Crafting FAILhttp://www.lisaashby.com/2010/02/crafting-fail/ http://www.lisaashby.com/2010/02/crafting-fail/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:54:16 +0000 Lisa Ashby http://www.lisaashby.com/?p=1658 Last April, my lovely sister-in-law Sharon was pregnant with baby Parker. Since I’m an overambitious crafter, I decided to cross-stitch her ultrasound photo for framing. Sounds pretty awesome, right? The only thing is, I haven’t cross-stitched since I was 8 years old and well, quite frankly, I had no idea what I was about to take on.

First, I told Sharon it would be done by her baby shower in August. That didn’t happen. Then it was September when Parker was due. Nope, still not done. Then it was Christmas. You can see where this is going…

Ten months later, this is where I’m at.

ultrasound photo cross stitch

This weekend, I finally came to terms with the fact that it will just never be completed. I have to put it down, count my losses, apologize and move on. I feel terrible, because I really wanted to finish it. But I’m just no good at it. Cross-stitching can be fun, but mostly it’s tedious and frustrating for me.

Lesson learned. Next time, I won’t be so ambitious. Little Parker will get something hand knit with love in every stitch. Because that’s what I’m good at.

How about you? Ever have to give up on something you really wanted to finish but just couldn’t?

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