Pins and Needles

Faith and I are going to join creative forces and start embroidering cool stuff you wish you thought of. Don't you worry, you'll soon be able to purchase our masterpieces! So,in preparation for this totally awesome and exciting venture, I decided to start using my precious hard earned cash-money, on the embroidering essentials. First step, I decided to get lost in the most amazing black hole of resources and inspirational eye candy: Barnes & Noble’s Craft book aisle. As I sat down on the floor with a pile of books I couldn’t afford, I felt myself flooding with creative plans and ideas!

So I got a book, or three! After spending hours of reading up on embroidering techniques, obviously the next step was getting the supplies. Failing to find my old collection of floss, that I once used to brand my friend’s wrists, announcing our friendship, I decided to head to a local store specializing in needlepoint. GASP! What the hell was I thinking?! “I’ll be right with you” said the sales (bitch), while I stared at a beautiful palette of floss on the wall. An ENTIRE wall! A few minutes passed by, when she finally decided to grudgingly help me, “what can I (not) help you with today?” As she stared me up and down, I told her I was interested in embroidery and wanted to know what I can do to get started. “This is a needlepoint store, I can’t help you!” Oh yea? As I stare into a wall of needles and floss, “Oh, okay, do you know where I could go to get stuff for embroidery?” It looked as if she was holding back vomit, and as she rolled her eyes in disgust “yea, there’s a store like that a few towns over.” So I got the information and drove 20 minutes to what I thought would be an embroidery Mecca. FALSE! “Oh we don’t carry any of that stuff here!” Once again walls of floss. “This is a cross stitching store, not embroidery!” Piss off! As a sales person in a knitting store, I was extremely confused as to why no one wanted to help me, especially, when they clearly needed the business and had the stuff I needed. I left the store extremely annoyed that these crafty bitches were so rude, and uninviting to newcomers into the needle crafting world. Their loss, not mine! However, if one of them happen to walk in my store, asking about crocheting, it’s a promise that I will not help those hookers!

Eventually I ended up at Joann Fabric’s and found what I needed. Hoops, fabrics, needles and floss. I’m all set, and heading to Faith’s in a bit to get started.