I now know for a fact that I am old. I sat down to start the Arctic Animals Club and it took me forever to get my first stitches in. Since I purchased the kit, it came with 28 count linen from Picture This Plus in the gorgeous color Nocture. That color and count is killing my old eyes. There's something about the color plus the linen that makes it near impossible to stitch on at times. I have to dig out my stronger reading glasses I guess as well as my Ott light. I am guessing my days of stitching on darker linens have passed and aida will be stepping up to take its place. Maybe it's the color changes. I just purchased a few pieces of hand-dyed fabrics so I'll see if I have the same problem on different colors. I know I had to put aside stitching for a while after my issue with an ocular occlusion in my dominate eye just barely off center. It left that part of my eye damaged and I had to adjust learning to see with it. It was weird, as no one knows why it happened - no medical reason was found. Anyway, back to stitching...
The design is cute and a quite easy stitch as far as colors and chart go. If it weren't for the difficulty seeing the fabric, I'd have had a lot more done. I wanted to try to get caught up and finish with the SAL - but I'm thinking that may now be too ambitious of a goal with the problems I'm having with the fabric.
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| Isn't that fabric gorgeous?! |
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