Crafty

Warning: If you don't knit or crochet or etc., stop reading now or you'll just think me silly. :-)

We're getting a Hobby Lobby! A new store is going to open in Nicholasville (i.e. Lexington) sometime in 2007. Yay!!! I hear they have a good selection of dishcloth yarn colors. ;-)

So Lexington has a Joann, 2 Michaels, (2?) Hancock Fabrics, 2 Meijer (strictly speaking, not a craft store but their yarn section is just as good as the others), and now a Hobby Lobby. Oh, and at least three 'proper' yarn stores (two of which I've ever been to *sigh*). All we lack now is an A.C. Moore. Heheh.

Frank Lloyd Wright cross-stitch kits - I am in love!

Lately I've been feeling the itch to pick up cross-stitch again. Somehow or another I began receiving catalogs from The Stitchery, and I manage to fall in love with at least one new pattern with each issue, such as Diane Graebner's Amish series (check out the one with the little girl knitting. :)) or these, simple and crisp. It's not cross-stitch, but I'm also drawn to Teresa Layman's adorable miniature knotted rugs (love the English cottage one!).

In fact, I have a cross-stitch kit that I've promised Mom I'll have done for her sister's birthday in May. Naturally, I haven't started it yet...

While I love the idea of cross-stitch, the usual excuse I come up with to talk myself out of it is practicality. Unlike crochet or knitting which can be actually used, cross-stitch is only decorative. And if you live in a crowded apartment with walls you can't put holes in like me the problem is, what do you do with the finished project? Gifting only goes so far because, let's face it, other than your grandmother, few people welcome a gift of cross-stitch.

Hmm... maybe a Frank Lloyd Wright afghan instead? :-)