My first attempts at counted cross-stitch. I'm using a kit from Alicia Paulson over at Posie Gets Cozy; this is her "Winterwoods" sampler with over-dyed cotton embroidery floss from the family owned Weeks Dye Works in North Carolina. My roommate, Howie, has been looking at me like I have a third eye. In his opinion, you'd have to be crazy to attempt something as tedious as cross-stitch for "fun," but there's something about the slowness and preciseness of each stitch that I find relaxing; drawing the thread through, in and out, to form tiny little minuscule x's and watching the different images come to life. It's a nice change of pace from knitting, my usual go-to remedy for fidgety hands.
A snapshot of my Sunday a few weeks back. It was a perfect snowy afternoon. And just between us...I totally ate half a dozen of those cookies before the evening's end. Life's too short not to indulge in snowy-day peanut butter cookie binges. Just sayin'.
No comments:
Post a Comment