Stitching dilemma

[siercia]

So, I have a whole lot of projects queued up right now. Mostly this is good, especially as I want to implement a budget crunch soon, which means no more supply buying for a little bit. But, I have a dilemma.

I went out on Monday with my oldest friend Elaine, to pick out a sampler for her wedding (she gets married 6 weeks from tomorrow). She picked out this beautiful piece. I got enough of the supplies I need to get started on it, and if I did nothing but stitch in all my free time between now and then, I could probably finish it in time to give it to her on her wedding day. Probably. There is certainly no certainty there. But, I've also committed (in my head) tomaking a number of Christmas presents this year, and it's almost October now. Most of the Christmas presents are quite small, and individually, if I were cracking along, none would take more than a week or so to do.

I can't decide whether I should try to push and get the wedding sampler done in time, and say the hell with the Christmas presents (the two most important ones are near done at this point), or whether I should buckle down, get the Christmas presents out of the way, then start the wedding sampler, with a firm mental commitment of finishing it by January. Technically, I have until a year post-wedding to give her the sampler, and still not be gauche.

I should be out there stitching instead of at the computer angsting about it, I'd bet.

Comments

[poopsmoothie.livejournal.com]

I vote for the xmas presents.

[siercia]

Yeah, that's what I've decided. Grandmother's don't understand late Christmas presents, Elaine will understand a late wedding present.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't stitch just to give people things. :)

I vote for the Christmas presents too, mostly because if you've got something that will take up all your free time to finish, you won't have enough free time to finish it. That always happens to me.

[siercia]

I've held off on a lot of present giving for a long time, but now I have lots of freinds getting married and stuff, so I'm making things instead of buying them. And the Christmas presents are as much a financial thing as a gift giving thing - it both helps to justify spending money on my hobby, and often is less expensive than bought presents, especially when I have the supplies to make them already on hand.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

I think you should do the presents first, then the wedding sampler. And I'm sure she will understand that it takes a lot of time to do. It's so pretty, it will be worth the wait.

[siercia]

I hope she does. People who don'y do crafty things often don't understand the time committment involved in making something like that. I think that I'll take some pictures of the piece in progress to give her in a card so I'm not giving her nothing on her wedding day =)

[lynnda.livejournal.com]

same vote ... christmas presents first ...
I have to hand it to you ... its a beautiful piece to work on ... the only stitching i can do, is stamped .. i cant do the ones where you hand me a blank material and say heres the pattern ..

bren

[siercia]

When I started I only did stamped X-stitch, then I realzed the counting all the stamped on X's wasn't THAT different from counting threads. Once I made the leap, I never went back, either. Now I do all kinds of stitching and embroidery.