The Husband Trap

 This morning I got everything done to get a pizza in the oven so we could eat between football games. Good wife!  :)

I then went downstairs to start cross stitching. Vince was sitting there watching a game. Our of the blue, this conversation happened. And, yes, I can be very evasive when it comes to answering a question.

V - How much linen does it require to make an average project?
Me - What's an "average" project? Linen comes in specific sizes. I mostly buy a fat quarter. That's a pretty useful size. 

Then I grabbed a couple of frames sitting by my chair and showed him how Away We Ride has an extra 6 or so inches on one side and by the time I leave 2", including room for a border and turning to frame it, there's not really any room for anything else but I will save the scraps just in case I need something really small. I showed him a frame that has several smalls on it and I will probably stitch 6 to 8 smalls on that fat quarter.

I was hoping he was confused enough that the conversation would end. Nope!

V - How much does a fat quarter of linen cost?
Me - That depends on the linen and where I get it. Probably the lowest cost would be about $10 up to about $40.

OK . . I can't say that I've ever seen a $10 fat quarter but they probably do exist . . somewhere.

Think that's all he wanted to know? Nope!

V - What about floss. How much is that.
Me - DMC is inexpensive. I can get that at Hobby Lobby for maybe 85 cents. I haven't bought any in a while and it may have gone up since I last bought it.

OK . . we have to be done with this conversation. He knows how much linen costs; how much linen it takes for projects and how much floss costs. Nope!

V - What about silk? You like to use that right? How much is silk?
Me - I wouldn't pay more than $5/skein. Some is less.

There was a big discussion and examples about the different silks and whether silks are "better" than DMC. I told him . . I love silks but I could stitch the rest of my days with DMC and wouldn't complain. Surely that's more than he wanted to know! Nope!

V - How much are charts?
Me - Some are very large and intricate and probably go up to about $50. I love getting the PDFs off Etsy for less than $10.

That seemed to answer his question. Maybe this conversation is about to end. Nope!

V - How many charts would you say you have?
Me - I have no idea! I could stitch the rest of my days without needing to buy more but new ones come out or I see someone has stitched something I've never seen before and I love it and I get it.
V - Would you say you have at least 30 charts already set up in the stitching program?
Me - I would say that.

The app I use is Markup-XP and it only allows 150 charts to be stored. The one shown has 138 projects on it. I use the very inexpensive ONN tablets from Walmart for my stitching because (1) I take them with me when I go to stitch with Debbie or anywhere else (2) I seem to be hard on tablets (3) I keep NOTHING else on these tablets except the cross stitching charts. For what I use, the very inexpensive tablets work fine.

Hopefully we are done with questions! Nope!

V - How many scroll frames do you have?
Me - How many do I have or how many do I have loaded with active projects?
V - How many do you have?
Me - I don't know but if you'd like, I can go get them all, bring them in here and we can count them.
V - No . . that's ok.
Me - I need to go upstairs and get the pizzas finished if we're going to eat at 2:00.

Anyone think that's the end of that conversation or there's more to come? :)