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( Abandon All Hope...no surprise that's an appropriate title )

I've made up a bunch of patterns over the last couple of days that I'd really like to do at some point in time. I order 16ct Adia fabric that's 2y x 30" which will give me lots of material to stitch on. The pattern of Dodger I'll be doing for my sister will be huge! But she's thrilled about that so its all good. Linen's all well and good for stitching on and I'm enjoying working with it but its far more expensive than the Aida and right now I've got to be careful with my money. I imagine I could get it for cheaper if I looked around but meh!

I found out a while back that the wife of a friend of my dad had been working on a cross-stitch kit but her eyes were so bad that she really couldn't do it anymore. I offered to finish it for her [not knowing what it'd be like] He brought it for me a couple of days back....I wasn't all that surprised to see that it was a kit, but with the picture painted on the pattern for me to 'embellish' parts of it....

Who would have thought I'd find that so bloody frustrating and hard to do...because of the way the picture is painted on of course the holes don't line up properly with everything so it can be hard to tell where they want the stitches to go. But I've solved this problem!

I said to hell with the pattern!

Which is to say, I'm only using it as a general idea of where I should stitch and what colors I should use. Inside the booklet it says that 'you're encouraged to make your own embellishments to the pattern' So that's exactly what I'm doing! I'm using 3/4 stitches! 'cause it needs them but the pattern doesn't call for it! So there!

Oh! And I'll leave you with this sadly amusing story.

My sister's friend bought a cake [I'm not sure from where] and as she was waiting to for the baker to write the inscription on the cake she heard the pair of them discussing which Your they should use. Here are the options they thought they had to choose from

Your or Your'e?

It is no wonder to me that the Cake Wrecks never runs out of cakes like these. *sigh*