By Ann
As if I didn’t already have enough crack potty and non-crackpotty projects on my to-do list, I suddenly decided some time ago that it was time for a new glasses case. My old one was done in a counted cross stitch design of tulips and had become terminally scuzzy. Once I realized how bad it was, a new one seemed like an emergency. So here is what I came up with:
I did not do the needlepoint for the case. I do not even know who did. I bought it stitched but unfinished so many years ago that I can’t remember where or when it was. For a long time, I thought about using it as a large patch pocket on the front of a denim jumper, but that never happened. I found it stashed away in the basement closet at about the time that I became aware of the scuzziness of the old glasses case, so it didn’t take much thought to decide that now was the time to finish it as originally intended. That was a bit of a challenge because (1) it’s hard to stitch through needlepoint canvas and (2) it’s very hard to turn it inside out and then right side out. But I prevailed, and I have been using it for probably 2 months now. I like it. And using it got me a new glasses case much faster than figuring out my own design to use on the unstitched glasses case kit that was in the L. L. Stash.