{"id":1404,"date":"2005-08-30T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T02:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/ten-years-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T02:08:53","slug":"ten-years-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/08\/ten-years-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years In The Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I finished a project that has taken me ten years to complete.  Honest!  This is a relic from my junior year of college.  I&#8217;ve been slowly chipping away at the mess that I call my craft room, and I found this project only 150 stitches short of being done.  Actually, I&#8217;ve found this project every single time I&#8217;ve organized my craft supplies, and I&#8217;ve put stitches in it each time.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, it&#8217;s a really large, complicated project, right?<\/p>\n<p>Do you really want to see it?<\/p>\n<p>Are you sure?<\/p>\n<p>Then click below:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Behold!  The never-ending glasses case!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rose_glasses_case.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2005\/rose_glasses_case.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"323\" align=\"right\" \/>So what took so long?  The fact that it&#8217;s the most awful, awkward fabric to work with might have had something to do with it.  I very much prefer having projects on stretcher bars so I can use both hands to stitch with.  I think it also sat for quite a while after college, and might have only seen daylight again a couple of years ago.  But I&#8217;ve definitely found it <i>several<\/i> times, each time forgetting how awful it was to stitch and vowing to finish it just so it would be done.<\/p>\n<p>This time there were only two leaves left to do &#8211; I think there were four the last time I found it &#8211; and I was bound and determined not to go to bed without finishing it.  So it&#8217;s done.  What a waste of good knitting time.  But it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question is: to keep the pattern and extra floss, or just toss it?  Because there&#8217;s absolutely no reason in the universe that I would ever stitch one of these again.  I don&#8217;t even keep my glasses in a case in the first place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I finished a project that has taken me ten years to complete. Honest! This is a relic from my junior year of college. I&#8217;ve been slowly chipping away at the mess that I call my craft room, and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-stitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}