Christmas = Gettin' Crafty

So, every year around this time, I get the craft bug.  Last year I taught myself how to knit and crochet and I made a couple scarves that are now keeping the floor of my car very warm.  This year, I have been preoccupied with other things (Nazi Zombies) so I haven't really done anything-- but expect that to change in 5-7 days.  Well, probably more like 10 because in 7 days we will be celebrating the birth of Our Lord and, for some reason, the post office thinks they can take some days off.  Whatever mailman.

Anyway, this year I got one of my friends a book for Christmas called "Subversive Cross Stitch" and it looked like fun.  I mean, who wouldn't want this hanging on their wall?

 

This ain't your Granny's sampler.

So I went over to the author's website and ordered me some patterns.  This won't be my first time in the cross stitch rodeo, either.  Oh, no!  I have a long history of beginning cross stitch projects and then getting about halfway through them only to put them down, never to pick them up again.  However, I am ever hopeful that I will be so enamored of these patterns that I see them all through and will have some nice homey craft pieces to hang in our (as yet to be found and/or bought) new home.

What crafts do you like to start and then never finish?  I really want to know, you guys!

Comments

[kristin]

I used to do cross stitch, when I was a kid. As of now, I am not crafty at all--no way, no how. I thought about taking up cross stitch again, but the thought of having to re-build the supplies (all that damn thread . . .) made me tired, so I never did.

And by the way? Your description of your Christmas morning gift-opening routine? Hello, Major Dad! Can you tell you had a father in the military? Though mine was in the military too, and we never did that. My mom's southern laid-back attitude won out, I guess.

[jive turkey]

I looooove subversive cross stitch! My favorite one is "Shut Your Whore Mouth."

I still cross-stitch, although I've been working on the same piece for EIGHT YEARS and I don't think I picked it up at all in the year 2008. I have Tivo now. That's my craft.