Learn from my mistakes!

Long, long, long dog ago when the world was young,

Adam was still a boy

and I was still in short knickers

(these days I simply don't bother - it's so liberating to feel the breeze)

a stunning, breath-takingly beautiful design was born

called ........ Scarlet Ribands.

Some of you are probably even old enough to remember it
or possibly still struggling on trying to get it finished.

Just as I had imagined it.

It was born during my "red phase" shortly after Mouline Rouge and
The Token and just before Bois le Duc.

So what did I do?
I decided to stitch it up in DMC B5200 Brilliant White
on a Terra Cotta Aida.

 

I've always been canny with my money and as I didn't have any white

material instantly to hand I thought I'd be frugal and go

with what I had.  OK so this is a nice way of saying I'm mean.

 

 

I knew instantly that this was a grave error of judgement on my part

but did I stop?  Did I hell!

 

 

On and on I stitched like a thing demented while my tea went cold

and my G&T grew warm, with every new stitch compounding

my felony until it lay finished on my knees and my fingers ached

from sheer exhaustion.  (I get a bit dramatic at times - sorry).

 

I want you to know - love doesn't always conquer all and

I still can't stand looking at it to this day!  Yeuk!!!!

What's that Suzie, you did yours on Terra Cotta too - ooops.