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Hmm...I think the new rule may be that I can't embroider anything larger than my head.;)

I just started the Aesop kit (I get the kits from e-bay...and most of them are from the seventies, for some reason. Just checked and yeah, this one's from 1979. The frame I made for Will was from 1976...which was the year darthgeek was born. Too funny.:) and realized that it's slightly larger than I thought. 20x28 inches. I guess this isn't destined to be anything but a wall hanging. Or a quilt.;) I'm a bit overwhelmed right now, but hey, everything's one stitch at a time, no matter how big the finished piece, right?

Still. It has illustrations from The Fox & The Grapes, the Tortise & The Hare, The Town Mouse & The Country Mouse and the Lion & The Mouse. I've started with the Fox and the look he seems to be giving me is definitely in the neighborhood of "Neener neener neener". Then again, isn't that the general fox expression? *Grin*

Thank ghods I got the big oval frame a few months ago. The largest hoop I had before that was ten inches across...this one allows me to have nearly the whole Fox section stretched at once, so I can *see* the progress...and won't have to move the hoop all the time.

Oh well. At least it isn't cross-stitch. Which I *LOVE*...both doing and the final results. But my eyes currently hate cross-stitch charts, so something this big in cross-stitch would make them fall out. Besides, I'm really good at getting the middle wrong (when starting a cross-stitched piece, one is supposed to find the middle and begin there). I remember having to restart my nephew's birth announcement when I was about a third of the way through 'cause it was rectangular and I'd started it in the wrong direction. Oh, the *Painnnnn* ('cause I'd already cut the fabric).

Enough rambling...time to look at Sammy's worksheets.

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Hmm...I think the new rule may be that I can't embroider anything larger than my head.;)

I just started the Aesop kit (I get the kits from e-bay...and most of them are from the seventies, for some reason. Just checked and yeah, this one's from 1979. The frame I made for Will was from 1976...which was the year darthgeek was born. Too funny.:) and realized that it's slightly larger than I thought. 20x28 inches. I guess this isn't destined to be anything but a wall hanging. Or a quilt.;) I'm a bit overwhelmed right now, but hey, everything's one stitch at a time, no matter how big the finished piece, right?

Still. It has illustrations from The Fox & The Grapes, the Tortise & The Hare, The Town Mouse & The Country Mouse and the Lion & The Mouse. I've started with the Fox and the look he seems to be giving me is definitely in the neighborhood of "Neener neener neener". Then again, isn't that the general fox expression? *Grin*

Thank ghods I got the big oval frame a few months ago. The largest hoop I had before that was ten inches across...this one allows me to have nearly the whole Fox section stretched at once, so I can *see* the progress...and won't have to move the hoop all the time.

Oh well. At least it isn't cross-stitch. Which I *LOVE*...both doing and the final results. But my eyes currently hate cross-stitch charts, so something this big in cross-stitch would make them fall out. Besides, I'm really good at getting the middle wrong (when starting a cross-stitched piece, one is supposed to find the middle and begin there). I remember having to restart my nephew's birth announcement when I was about a third of the way through 'cause it was rectangular and I'd started it in the wrong direction. Oh, the *Painnnnn* ('cause I'd already cut the fabric).

Enough rambling...time to look at Sammy's worksheets.