Embroidery Project

I just finished an embroidery project. This one I started over the Christmas holiday. It’s not a very big one. I would normally have finished in in a month, maybe two. Instead, I worked on three other projects at the same time and so all of them have slowed down.

Actually, now that I think about it, I’m slower to embroider for other reasons too. I used to take The Girl to music lessons. The lessons were across town and only lasted for half an hour. If I dropped her off and went home, I’d have to go right back as soon as I’d walked in the door. So instead, I’d sit around embroidering for half an hour.

It got so that the music teacher would always ask about what I was working on. She seemed to get a kick out of that and all the other creative things that tend to go in in my household.

I still embroider in other places; and have a rep for it. For instance, my doctor’s lead nurse always looks in on me to see what I’m working on. And of course I still embroider when anyone stops to talk to me. But now that The Boy is officially (if not really) out of the house I have an office to myself instead of a corner of the living room. People don’t stop to talk to me as much.

Still, I have no intention of setting it aside for a couple of decades like I did before. instead, I’ll come up with something even bigger.