*** Okay - just figured out - I have already stitched this before, on PTP Sand fabric. That it takes two of the darker floss, and one of the lighter one. Stitching it again is fine with me. But kinda funny. I have converted a bunch of my original posts back to drafts - so I can't even say when I stitched it. I did finish it. Did not frame it - but I did finish it. I had the fabric - I had the fancy floss - it didn't cost me anything to stitch it again. ***
To Laugh Often - Twisted Threads. A new start. Using suggested fancy flosses, on 28 count Queen Anne's Lace jobelan, one over one. I don't mind doing words at all, and this is from my stash. Saw it on McKenna's 1884 store, just $2, but then thought I had it in my stash already. But was it easier to just order it again, or try to dig through my stash? I found it in my stash. So far, it's been fine.
I had looked up photos on-line for my high school reunion. I have never gone. The people that I would like to see or talk to again, do not go to class reunions, But I did look at the photos, and have memories. They were all people that either did not talk to me while we were in school. The cheerleaders... Or - men that let me know what a huge deal that they dance with me when I asked them once, or didn't talk to me when I asked them to talk at some bar a few years after high school. And I seemed to have a version of that - I can't be bothered to talk to YOU (me) memory for each of the people in these bar union photos. Oh boy - I could go - and they could tell me they are still too busy to talk to me - can't be bothered to say hello to you....
And it turns out - it REALLY irked me that those people could still make me feel like that more than 45 years later, just looking at photos. I did not care about their opinions then - it was clear that I did not matter to them in school. Which I didn't care about in school. And part of suddenly wanting to stitch this.... is a line that ends with.... and endure the betrayal of false friends.
I can see some of the photos show guys that these cheerleader girls would never have dated, or be seen with, the guys that they are all cozy-cozy with in these bar photos. And I am not claiming to know all their relationships - but that line about false friends - just fit the mood that I saw in those older reunion photos. So I just HAD to start it.
