Drumroll, please.

I finished my first embroidery project. Also, perhaps, my last, though I do own the Sublime Stitching chick’s latest book and enough materials to half-fill one of my Rubbermaids.

So we’ll see.

I’m happy with my final product — maybe I’ll show you the front sometime. I’m going to frame it for Annabelle as a Hanukkah gift (so I’ll have to do at least one more for Sophie, who’s requested something in purple). The front’s not so bad — if you squint. It looks a lot like the pattern. Some friends and I took a fun class last week at Frances.

But here’s the thing. It was a pattern. Mine looks just like everyone else’s, only not as good. If I do more of this, I plan to branch out — that’s the cool thing about Sublime Stitching. There’s room to play.

Meantime, I kind of enjoy the final results of the back of my first project, which might be the biggest mess ever, in the history of embroidery.

I’m so proud.