{"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":"<p>So as you know from <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/20\/progress-report-2-on-the-fortunate-traveler\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/12\/progress-report-1-on-the-fortunate-traveler\/\">here,<\/a> I&#8217;ve been working on a rather large cross stitch project. I predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/23\/finished-project-new-project\/\">here<\/a> that in six months I&#8217;d move on to a smaller project. It&#8217;s been four and here I am movin&#8217; on. I decided that I wanted to do something for the baby&#8217;s room, not because I was bored with the dragon, that&#8217;s an acceptable excuse, right? <\/p>\n<p>I had thought that I would move this piece (currently hanging in Eli&#8217;s room)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image260\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/mothersarms.jpg\" alt=\"mothersarms.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nto the baby&#8217;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&#8217;s mom already had it. Here&#8217;s the photo. And by the same artist, too!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image657\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/md20.jpg\" alt=\"md20.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI started on Thursday and here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve gotten done so far.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image661\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_8162.jpg\" alt=\"img_8162.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSee her dress? It&#8217;s right there. I can&#8217;t believe you can&#8217;t see it!<\/p>\n<p>So all that to say I have MPD for cross-stitch. I&#8217;m guessing you aren&#8217;t all that shocked by my admission.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When I started work on <em>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&#8217;ve see the new winner in the chart-size arms race. While we were visiting Stephen&#8217;s parents, May (Stephen&#8217;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&#8217;t &#8220;see&#8221; the picture in the pattern. When I opened up the pattern it was a whopping 36 pages of chart! Here&#8217;s the photo:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image662\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_8069.jpg\" alt=\"img_8069.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSo I offered to put it together for her. Well, actually I didn&#8217;t offer, I told Stephen&#8217;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&#8217;t help it. I also art direct at nearly any opportunity but that&#8217;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.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image663\" src=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_8067.jpg\" alt=\"img_8067.jpg\" \/><br \/>\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&#8217;ll just hang the chart and call it a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as you know from here and here, I&#8217;ve been working on a rather large cross stitch project. I predicted here that in six months I&#8217;d move on to a smaller project. It&#8217;s been four and here I am movin&#8217; on. I decided that I wanted to do something for the baby&#8217;s room, not because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cross-Stitch Multiple Personality Disorder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}