Ten Years In The Making

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’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’ve found this project every single time I’ve organized my craft supplies, and I’ve put stitches in it each time.

Obviously, it’s a really large, complicated project, right?

Do you really want to see it?

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Then click below:

Behold! The never-ending glasses case!

So what took so long? The fact that it’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’ve definitely found it several times, each time forgetting how awful it was to stitch and vowing to finish it just so it would be done.

This time there were only two leaves left to do – I think there were four the last time I found it – and I was bound and determined not to go to bed without finishing it. So it’s done. What a waste of good knitting time. But it’s done.

Now the question is: to keep the pattern and extra floss, or just toss it? Because there’s absolutely no reason in the universe that I would ever stitch one of these again. I don’t even keep my glasses in a case in the first place!