I started a cross-stitched family tree for the new edition to the family who was born last November. I started it during the school summer vacation last year. I have quite a bit finished, but am anticipating being able to do more in a couple of weeks when school is out again this year. It's taking SO long that I've asked a friend to finish it in the case of my early demise! It's taking a LONG time. The friend laughed, but promised to carry through if I'm hit by a truck or something. I hadn't done any needlework for DECADES. I don't remember previous efforts taking this much time, but almost forty years probably makes me a wee bit slower too!
UPDATE: It looks like I never posted a picture of the final results. The following is a picture I found, taken in 2015. Seems to me like it took..... can't remember if it was three months or three years.... seems like even longer, whichever it was!!! It shows Ellie as the youngest child. I had to add to it a few years later, when Jeffery Matthew Cook was born in 2017, giving Ellie a brother. I cross stitched my name and the date into the margins of the cloth canvas, where it's not visible, but can be found by future generations, I hope.
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