Project Complete

It always gives me a great sense of accomplishment to actually completely finish a project – especially a project meant for somebody else.

I finished cross-stitching a picture onto a sweatshirt yesterday.

Three guesses who the sweatshirt was for, and the first two don’t count.

Tad had seen me working on this, so it wasn’t meant to be a surprise.  But when he walked in the door yesterday from school, and I said to him, “I have a surprise for you,” and showed him the finished sweatshirt, his jaw dropped.  He was thrilled with it.

Not that you could tell by his forced grin for the camera.

I had found this particular pattern for free online, and was pretty pleased with it – mostly because all the other patterns I’d found made the shark look very cartoony.  I did modify the pattern a little, but overall, I like how it turned out.  If Tad could automatically tell that it was a shark, then I’m happy.  He’s very particular about his sharks.

And I’m keeping the pattern.  I have a feeling it may come in handy again someday.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 at 2:37 am and is filed under Being Crafty, Children.
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