My efforts to craft another entire holiday’s worth of gifts have firmly entrenched me in the realm of the obsessive. I’m spending more and more of my free time as well—as some that probably isn’t so free—thinking about stitching, reading about stitching, or working on a stitch project. As I said previously, I can’t share some of them with the internets because I wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise. They’ll be up though, eventually.

As of today I’m done with one cross stitch project, halfway through a plastic canvas embroidery project, and just starting another cross stitch project. With each individual project taking roughly 2 – 3 days to complete I should be able to get a pretty good pile done if I don’t get burned out. Or injured.

That plastic canvas thing I mentioned earlier is proving to be a hell of a lot harder than I had expected. The tutorial I’m following advises using all six strands of embroidery floss. I’m finding it to be tough to pull all that thread through a 14-count plastic canvas sheet. All that repetitive tugging is starting to do a number on my wrist and shoulder.

This latest bout of obsession has got me to thinking about this here site. I’d always had it in the back of my head that I should try and write real articles and not standard blog posts. By which I mean I should do a bit of research and try to act smart. This isn’t quite working for me. I think, perhaps, I’ll try and go the other route for a while. Also, I’m probably going to take it in a more crafty route because, as I said, I’m not doing or thinking anything else lately. There are a few minor changes I’d like to make vis-a-vis the layout and structure of the site, but they’ll have to wait until this holiday madness has left me.