{"id":656,"date":"2007-01-07T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/01\/07\/cross-stitch-multiple-personality-disorder\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T19:29:13","slug":"cross-stitch-multiple-personality-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Stitch Multiple Personality Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as you know from here<\/a> and here,<\/a> I’ve been working on a rather large cross stitch project. I predicted here<\/a> that in six months I’d move on to a smaller project. It’s been four and here I am movin’ on. I decided that I wanted to do something for the baby’s room, not because I was bored with the dragon, that’s an acceptable excuse, right? <\/p>\n

I had thought that I would move this piece (currently hanging in Eli’s room)
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\nto the baby’s room but I decided that I wanted to do something different for the new baby. I found a pattern that I liked and I was lucky enough that Stephen’s mom already had it. Here’s the photo. And by the same artist, too!
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\nI started on Thursday and here’s what I’ve gotten done so far.
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\nSee her dress? It’s right there. I can’t believe you can’t see it!<\/p>\n

So all that to say I have MPD for cross-stitch. I’m guessing you aren’t all that shocked by my admission.<\/p>\n

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When I started work on The Fortunate Traveler,<\/em> I thought it was the largest chart I had ever seen or put together. The book was 20 pages and took me about an hour to cut out of the photocopied pages and paste together. Well I’ve see the new winner in the chart-size arms race. While we were visiting Stephen’s parents, May (Stephen’s mom) tried to get me to take a pattern that she had ordered but had decided was maybe to complex to do. Her words were that she couldn’t “see” the picture in the pattern. When I opened up the pattern it was a whopping 36 pages of chart! Here’s the photo:
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\nSo I offered to put it together for her. Well, actually I didn’t offer, I told Stephen’s dad to make copies and bring them back to me and then I commenced to cutting and pasting. (I try to curb my autocratic tendencies but sometimes I can’t help it. I also art direct at nearly any opportunity but that’s not a big shocker for you either, I bet.) It took about two hours and the finished chart is actually in three sections but the whole thing is about five feet by four feet.
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\nOnce she saw the chart she decided that she might give it a try after all. I told her that the chart itself was enough art work all by itself so maybe she’ll just hang the chart and call it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So as you know from here and here, I’ve been working on a rather large cross stitch project. I predicted here that in six months I’d move on to a smaller project. It’s been four and here I am movin’ on. I decided that I wanted to do something for the baby’s room, not because … Continue reading Cross-Stitch Multiple Personality Disorder<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t