A Stitch in Time?

5. Start and finish my stocking cross stitch for Brodie

As you may remember reading previously (although it's been so long I don't blame you if you're rolling your eyes at me in frustration at having to either rack your brain to recall what I'm talking about or scrolling to figure out what I am referencing), I had finished a cross stitch stocking for my nephew Jax back in May. As I learned growing up with three younger sisters, what one child has everyone must have, so I intended to also do one for his older brother. When I finished Jax's I still had some vacation time left so I started on Brodie's.

Now, my family likes to make fun of me and the amount of time it takes me to complete a cross stitch project. This stems back to a project I worked on for my dad that took me about three years to do. Every Father's Day and Christmas/birthday I would pull it out and show him how far I had gotten. What they don't realize, and you may if you've done this sort of thing before, is that very often I'll park myself in front of a disc of some TV series and four episodes later I have about a one inch by one inch spot to show for my work. But I was determined that Christmas 2012 would not go by without stockings for my nephews. They are now 3 and 4 and may have figured out one should have stockings for Santa to put little goodies in.

The week before Christmas I did it. I stitiched the last stitch, tugged gently on the hanger to make sure it was attached (and gave my sister the warning that maybe Santa wouldn't want to put anything too heavy in there), and wrapped it up. I was going to see them at church on Christmas Eve and needed to have this done! I think having a deadline helped, and when I start my next project I need to keep that in mind.

I admit I feel a little lost now that I don't have any cross stitch to do while I watch TV. But I know the next one I want to do and should be ordering it soon. I promise, Maggie, you will have one before you're 2! Or maybe 3. I don't want to be TOO optimistic.