Two things greatly contributed to make my life wonderful: my mom and the SNCF.
SNCF is the company of train in France.
They have two striking seasons: may and november. Sometimes for a little more than a month. Even on non-striking season there are "surprises" and trains get stuck: for example sometimes there are leaves during fall, or snow in winter. Yes seriously. They don't expect that to happen...
SNCF taught me to be patient. Taught me to think about cell phones: is it really useful to call and say: " my train is stuck(/cancelled/delayed/on strike) I don't know when is the next one, if there is a next one...
I learned the kind of selfish patience: deal with it, take enough in your back pack to survive 2 days without coming home: some change in case you're stuck in Paris, water, apples and chocolate.
And cross stitch.
Cross stitch is great :)
A book is fun, but it comes to an end before the train starts moving again. If you take 2 or 3 then it's a better bet, but then it's heavy (especially when your bag already handle 2 bottles of water, 2 apples, a full load of cards and pens for christmas greetings, etc.)
Cross stitch is light: fabric and thread. If you're very fancy you can add cisors. Taking a plane taught me to deal without, but that's an other story.
Cross stitch is wonderful because you're in for hours and hours of stitching, you're mind is free, but you look busy, so nobody bothers you.
You look busy but you're doing something nice, so people are nice to you. Often I have someone talking to me : "beautiful work!" or " oh I learned to stitch when I was 10!" or (expert) " where did you get that cute design"...
I garantee it makes me feel better.. I don't care if the train is an hour late, I need at least 12 more hours to finish that birth present!
Oh yes becaus ethe best part is you an actually give the stuff away after!
Baby stuff are always very appreciated :)
All that to say: I'm very thankful about the trains strikes in France, they made me stitch a lot more than I would have otherwise.
Now I use it all the time: subway trips, social security line, night supervision, boyfriend late on a date... ;)
So yeah I love cross stitch! design above is ellen maurer stroh
An other thing mentioned above is my mom, I'll keep it for another time...
1 comment:
Now that is a good idea!! I love cross stitching but I don't do it often because I'm too busy sewing at home.
Both times I've visited France there was a strike, lol.
I hope it's ok if I add your blog to my list. :-)
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