Looking
back at some other posts it appears that I write a lot about gifts
that I've been given. It's not that I'm continuously showered with
presents, but that my friends and family are all very thoughtful
people who give excellent gifts. For example, for my last birthday
three of my friends, (women I've known for over a decade now), gave
me the following:
- a personalised mug for tea
- fancy gin from a local distillery
- this cross-stitch kit
What is best in life? Tea, gin and textile crafts about tea and gin.
I've
used the mug every week since then and the gin is almost all gone,
but I had a memory of trying cross-stitch in my early teens and not
really enjoying it so I didn't break open the kit straight away. I
finally opened it last weekend and it was really easy! Why did I
think it was difficult? It took an afternoon to make
these, (I opted to use them as magnets instead of coasters so I could put them on the huge, magnetic whiteboard in the kitchen):
You
get a substantial amount of material with the kit – there are three
skeins of embroidery floss and you use hardly any on the design –
although the instructions aren't very detailed. They seem to be
generic instructions for all of the kits in the range rather than
specific to that kit. However, it was pretty easy to figure out what
to do. I had fun with these and would definitely recommend them to
anyone looking to get into, (or back into), cross-stitch.
*There are actually plenty of cocktail recipes combining tea and gin. This one looks particularly good, if labour-intensive.
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