It's the summer. It's too hot to lug around a skein of yarn as I sweat it out in my apartment, with the late afternoon sun shining in my face.
It's time to cross stitch! I bought these kits off of Craigslist... that only have directions in Chinese.
Thankfully, since I already know the basics, and the overall instructions are in color, especially on how to match the thread to the pattern, I'm going to be ok.
This is done over the past month. My cross stitching seems kind of slow - it'll be an hour and it seems like I've made no progress, but it takes a lot of time to read the pattern, match up the thread, pull off the two pieces I need, thread the needle, etc.
I first started on the right side of the project after finding the center, which is a little girl. With some crazy hair.
She has a face! And something that resembles a body!
Hair! Clothes! Arms! One arm reaching out! Legs! Grass to stand on!
Through last night, I've finished off her friend's body, feet, and part of his head.
In case you're wondering why the fabric looks rounded, I use a round hoop to keep the fabric still when I'm stitching, and it pulls it pretty taut so that I can easily pull the needle up through the fabric. Unfortunately, it does stretch the fabric a bit, and I'll have to iron it out a bit to get the round hoop out. I don't have a hoop big enough for this project, and I don't want one - right now, everything I have fits very well in a plastic container and I don't want to buy anymore. Yet.
The hilarious part is that this is a Chinese cross stitch kit, but the writing on the kit.. is in Korean. It's really cute though, once it's done, but it's probably cuter because of the saying.
After this is done (maybe in two weeks?) it will be decision time. Do I go onto the next monstrous cross stitch I purchased (which is a bamboo forest that will look pretty frickin awesome framed) or back to knitting?
Why cross stitch: it's hot people! Yarn is hotter! Sweaty yarn doesn't make a good project! It's hard to make the knitting slide over the needles when your hands are sweating.
Why knit: It's a good time to learn how to do things I don't know how to do. My goal is to figure out how to knit cables well, and to figure out this argyle pattern I found for a baby sweater. Also, my cousin and his wife are due in August, and it's a girl, and I'll FINALLY be able to use the 10 skeins of purple yarn that is stashed at my parents house.
Plus if I start my knitting projects now, they'll actually be done by Christmas.
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So cute...I love it!!
What are you planning on doing with this? It's super cute! What's the Korean saying? Can you just leave it off, or do you want it on there?
@konayipark - I think I'll put it in, otherwise, there's a big empty space on the upper left side of the project. I'm probably going to frame it and hang it up - I have one thing I did a LONG time ago framed and hanging up, and I might just replace that one with this one.
The Korean says something along the lines of "he said he would always pick flowers for me."