For the longest time, when someone asked me what my oldest WIP was, I had to point to that really old table cloth I bought and started over 20 years ago. I had lost the pattern, and the parts that had already been stitched looked terrible, but I was determined to not just throw it out.
Eventually, sometime last year, I sat down and drew up the pattern - there were just two different small motifs on the cloth, a house and a tree, and I had already stitched one house, so that was easy to copy. I only had half a tree, so some artistic freedom was needed on that part, but eventually I was content with that as well.
I stitched one of each, and then I frogged the old stitching, and then I stitched some more. In total, there are four houses and eight trees:
Some time in early March, I just decided that it was time to get this out of my list, so five of the trees and three of the houses were stitched up this month - and suddenly it was all finished!
It certainly felt good to get this one out of the list! However...my oldest WIP is STILL a tablecloth, as I have two more on the list xD
5 comments:
Congratulations on finishing your oldest WIP! I wouldn't even know what mine is :) I hope you had a wonderful birthday, too! My son turned 40 on the 21st and I'm still in shock that I have a child that age :)
Good for you! I should pull out my oldest and get to work on it.
It is so satisfying to complete any project but an old one is worth double happy dancing. It's a lovely cloth, huge well done
Congratulations on the oldest WIP finish! What an opportunity for a Happy Dance this is.
How old is the next oldest?
Mine are all from this century now which is something!
Leonore: How sweet, it must feel good to work on a WIP>
Catherine
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