In my dotage, I have come to appreciate craft kits. There is still enough yarn in boxes around here that a knitting kit seems excessive, but I'm not averse to buying one.
Since Briton has begun cross-stitching, as I've said before, that bug has bitten me. Kits are so much easier than buying the 7000* colors of DMC floss to have on hand. That's one reason I've been doing single-color designs.
BUT, I found this kit online.
I do love my irises (i-rie?) If you look at the color guide, though, you see that there are no numbers for the colors. So, when a couple of the colors ran out, a trip to Joann was necessary.
I should say that also in my dotage, my vision is compromised. Distance requires glasses, up close means taking off said glasses or changing to another pair. So, there I am in Joann, glasses and keys on a shelf, trying to hand-match colors. (Man, there are a lot of shades of yellow.)
Miss Kim's lesson here, class, is that kits are easy and convenient, but check for those numbers.
*Slight exaggeration.
1 comment:
Yikes. I think sometimes kits don't use DMC floss and so give you the color only, but I would totally not trust myself to match colors. It would take me forever.
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