A test of patience

Coming up for three years ago, I was gifted this beautiful cross stitch project created from a piece of art by Marjorie Sarnat. There are about a million teeny tiny stitches using 90 different colour cottons, some of which are barely distinguishable from others. Okay, I might be over exaggerating about the million stitches. It might be more like 100,000, but it feels like more. And considering the number of stitches I have already, and predict I will in the future, unpicked and redone, it might not be far off a million when I’m done.

I will finish it. It’s too beautiful not to finish. I want to frame it when it’s done, and hang it on a wall. I don’t frame cross stitches normally, mostly because nothing I’ve done so far has been worth it.

So far, this is what I’ve done.

If you tilt your head side ways (because I couldn't figure out how to rotate the image) you can see the one ear and two of the three blue triangles on the cat’s head. There’s still a long way to go, and it might take a decade before I’m ready to frame it – cross stitch is a very slow art form, but I have to buy at least another 40 skeins of cotton, which isn’t cheap.

I’ll post another pic in a couple months time, maybe after the Christmas holidays (which is only six weeks away J), hopefully with many, many more stitches in place.

UPDATE (10/2015): While I haven't given up on this project, it has stagnated at this point

Still got a long way to go, but I'm not rushing this, or forcing myself to work on it for fear of hating it.