Crafting takes a left turn

OK, this is what I intended to post earlier today, but haven’t had the time today.  Why?  United Way.  Don’t get me started.  The bookkeeping is horrendous.

So … today is weird show and tell.  My first presentation is Callie’s Christmas stocking.  It was the project I completed in order to qualify for starting a new project.  I can just see it now - I just keep emptying and refilling the same drawer all year and nothing else gets done.

I prefer to think of this stocking as Not My Fault.  I’m actually somewhat embarrassed to show you this, and all I can say is that I must have been channeling my cat’s personality when I made this.  I wasn’t trying for … whatever this communicates.

In any case, this is an example of what turns up when I decide to embroider something.  I’m not a great stitcher, but except for the black nose backing, it’s all needle and thread.  I think that viewing it next to Callie herself is probably the best way to communicate to you the very real similarities between the personality and the stocking.

Grandma - My other show-and-tell piece is a bunny-shaped cutting board my mom brought back from Iowa - something my grandmother took out of some dark corner where it has been hiding for 72 years.  No kidding! My grandmother (by the name of Betsy Timpe) painted this in 1936 in the Timpe School on Timpe Lane, a one-room schoolhouse on the prairie in Nebraska.  So you’re starting to see about the size of the town, eh? This is completely awesome.  I don’t even have words.

So, anybody out there want to present their most embarrassing or any slightly odd crafting projects?