um what kind of hobbies do you have
um i do a lot of cross-stitching and painting when i do have spare time oh i love it
really i like cross-stitch too
i just have a hard time finding any spare time lately
i'm that's my case also i've got a new born and and there's just no time
uh-huh
have have you been cross-stitching long
oh several years my husband is even interested in it now he likes to help me design um you know projects that are a little more customized
oh really
mine sort of he looks at the pattern and he says how do you get that from there to the to the material
not that hard i really i really enjoy it
but oh its not
and once uh once you get started on it it's just oh i just i love it i do a lot of my own patterns also
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yeah
in fact i did one uh Bill the Cat you know from Glenn County
oh yeah
that uh was a real good one to do
it was it was tough but uh
yeah do you have any others or is it just mainly cross-stitch
um i do mostly that um not very artistic really for like painting and stuff
oh uh-huh
um
but now i don't know
yeah uh but i well i'm still trying to get all the DMC colors
oh really
yeah i've got the kits to to put them all in i don't have them all yet
uh right yeah uh got to counting the other day and uh i think i have what was it two hundred and i got to thinking the money that i've got invested in this
certainly
is uh it uh yeah it can add up quick
oh yeah
i just i just keep an inventory of what i currently have and then when i start a a new project i go through and see if i if i you know just buy the colors that i need of what i'm low on
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right i see well now can i
improvise with adding using another color color instead you know what comes close
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because a lot of them are are similar
yeah a lot of times you can do that
think the i think the pinks there's like forty two different shades of pink
good grief yeah there's there's lots of pinks and greens
pinks and greens yeah
there's lots of shades of greens
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but the colors are i just love all the different colors
yeah
they had they had quite a few new ones come out last year
that they added to
but but you don't have much spare time either
well not lately
i even started a new job and trying to get
acclimated there
oh yes and that does take sometime yes we're trying to get acclimated with the uh with having a baby and there's just he's seven months old
yeah how old
oh yeah
and just into everything so there's not a spare moment
oh but i wouldn't trade it for the world i've been trying to do some bibs for him
oh yeah
and uh and and work on his Christmas stocking
yeah
we missed it the the last year so hopefully this year he'll have one
yeah well last year he was a little bit young for having one
uh right right
probably wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway
he oh he liked right if it tasted good yeah uh
you would have but
uh yeah all he liked was the lights this year so
oh yeah
oh well that's neat that uh you like cross-stitch also
yeah that's that's kind of strange that we got the same call
yeah uh uh
it to which oh
oh i'm sorry go ahead
no that's okay
okay uh but yeah i've been doing it for probably about ten years or so
oh wow no i just started about
well five years ago i think
but but it is peaceful i mean it is relaxing to do
once you find the time to do it
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there's bit off a couple of large projects baby afghans and got one done and i think the other one's gonna the child is gonna be in high school before i get finished
oh
on that uh is it one of those uh afghans that i've seen in the packages or the the squares large squares
embarrassing
well yeah i just i bought the cloth and the the pattern for it i didn't um i didn't buy the uh i didn't buy a kit
oh uh-huh well i've seen the afghans in the in the
stores that uh are designed for cross-stitch
uh-huh it's it's that cloth it's called Anne Cloth i think and it has the borders and everything already
oh okay
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yeah
those are pretty
number one turned out just great and the lady said she couldn't believe that
they know that i had done it in the colors that they had decorated the uh
the nursery and i didn't even know it
oh that's a coincidence
she i gave it to her and she said how did you know those are the colors we used i said
didn't
that was a good coincidence
just worked out that way
that's great
um
that uh now i've got some material to do an afghan but i just never did get around to finishing it
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i like those those are pretty
yeah
Lilly yeah Lilly she she said i said it's for it's for your daughter to use oh no she said i know she doesn't get to touch it she hung it on the wall
yes my uh grandmother uh made us a couple of quilts for the baby and i was like oh i don't want to mess those up
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yeah
oh there just too nice i mean you don't get many hand made quilts anymore
yeah
oh yeah
um true
well i've enjoyed this
okay
uh but uh wel l keep up the good um well keep up the cross-stitching
you too all righty bye bye
all right thanks bye bye
