My mother is amazingly gifted at crafty stuff. She can sew spectacularly, she can paint a beautiful face on a porcelain doll, she can cross-stitch, crochet, quilt and even has been known to weave a basket or two.
I can make scrapbooks and sometimes a decent card. I can sew in mostly straight lines in order to make very plain curtains. But where my mother creates beauty, I struggle to make something look just okay.
I am bound and determine to get the crafty genes I am positive are in me somewhere to start working. So I bought a cross-stitch sampler and have decided to give it to my mother for Mother’s Day. Since it is Tuesday, I don’t think I’ll make Mother’s Day, but hopefully she’ll get it within the week following Mother’s Day. So far it actually looks pretty good…we’ll just not discuss the whole decorative detail I had to remove completely after I noticed I had counted over too many spaces. The fact that I am mostly deficient in math should have been a cue to do embroidery instead of counted cross stitch. But I really want to finish something nicely to send to my mother. She’s made zillions of crafty/sewn things for me (including a beautiful wedding gown) so ’tis time to return the favor.
When I complete it, I will put a photo online.