[speaker001:] Um, what kind of hobbies do you have?
[speaker002:] Um, I do a lot of cross-stitching and painting, when I do have spare time.
[speaker001:] Really, I like cross-stitch too.
[speaker002:] Oh, I love it.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] I just have a hard time finding any spare time lately.
[speaker002:] That's my case also. I've got a new born and there's just no time.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Have you been cross-stitching long?
[speaker001:] Oh, several years. My husband is even interested in it now. He likes to help me design, um, you know, projects that are,
[speaker002:] Oh, really.
[speaker001:] a little more customized.
[speaker002:] Mine, sort of, he looks at the pattern and he says how do you get that from there to the material [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Not that hard.
[speaker002:] Oh, it's not.
[speaker001:] I really enjoy it.
[speaker002:] And once you get started on it, it's just, oh, I just, I love it. *two utts
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I do a lot of my own patterns also.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] In fact, I did one, BILL THE CAT, you know, from Glenn County
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] that, uh, was a real good one to do. It was tough, but, uh, yeah. Do you have any others, or is this mainly cross-stitching?
[speaker001:] Um, I do mostly that, um, not very artistic really for like painting and stuff.
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh. Um,
[speaker001:] But, now I don't know.
[speaker002:] Yeah. I'm still trying to get all the D M C colors [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Oh, really [LAUGHTER]. Yeah, I've got the kits to put them all in. I don't have them all yet [talking]
[speaker002:] Yeah, right. Yeah.
[speaker001:] certainly.
[speaker002:] Yeah. I got to counting the other day and, uh, I think I have, what was it two hundred, and I got to thinking the money that I've got invested in this [LAUGHTER] is, uh, it, yeah, it can add up quick.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah. I just, I just keep an inventory of what I currently have, and then when I start a new project, I go through and see if I, if I, you know, just buy the colors that I need
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] of what I'm low on.
[speaker002:] Right. I see. Well, now can I improvise with adding and using another color instead, you know, what comes close.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Because a lot of them are similar.
[speaker001:] Yeah. A lot of times you can do that. I think, I the pinks, there's like forty-two different shades of pink.
[speaker002:] Good grief [LAUGHTER]. Yeah, there's lots of pinks and greens.
[speaker001:] Pinks and greens. Yeah.
[speaker002:] There's lots of shades of greens. But the colors, I just love all the different colors.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] They had quite a few new ones come out last year, that they added to. But, you don't have much spare time either?
[speaker001:] Well, not lately [LAUGHTER]. I just started a new job and trying to get acclimated there.
[speaker002:] Oh, yes. And that does take some time. And if we're trying to get acclimated with the, uh, with having a baby, and.
[speaker001:] Yeah. How old?
[speaker002:] He's seven months old.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] And just into everything, so there's not a spare moment.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Oh, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I've been trying to do some bibs for him.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] And, uh, work on his Christmas stocking.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] We missed it last year, so hopefully this year he'll have one.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Well, last year he was a little bit young for having one.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] He wouldn't have enjoyed it anyway [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]..
[speaker001:] You would have but,
[speaker002:] Right. If it tasted good, yeah. All he liked was the lights this year, so.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Oh, well, that's neat that you like cross-stitching also.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's, that's kind of strange [LAUGHTER] that we got the same call.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] It's a call.
[speaker002:] Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
[speaker001:] No, that's okay.
[speaker002:] Okay [LAUGHTER], uh, but, yeah, I've been doing it for probably ten years or so.
[speaker001:] Oh, wow. No, I just started about, well, five years ago, I think.
[speaker002:] But it is peaceful, I mean it is relaxing to do, once you find the time to do it.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh [throat clearing]. There's also a couple of large projects, baby afghans, and I got one done and I think the other one is going. The child is going to be in high school before I get finished.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] On that, uh
[speaker001:] Bear thing.
[speaker002:] is it one of those afghans that I've seen in the packages with the, with the large squares?
[speaker001:] Well, yeah I just, I bought the cloth and the pattern for it. I didn't, um, I didn't buy the, uh, I didn't buy a kit.
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh. Well I've seen the afghans in the stores that are designed for cross-stitching.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. It's that cloth.
[speaker002:] Oh, okay.
[speaker001:] It's an-, cloth I think.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And it has the borders and everything already.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Those are pretty.
[speaker001:] Number one turned out just great, and the lady said she couldn't believe that they know that I had done it in the colors, that they had decorated the nursery and I didn't even know it.
[speaker002:] Oh, that's a.
[speaker001:] I gave it to her and she said how did you know those are the colors we used. I said [pause] didn't [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] That was a good.
[speaker001:] It worked out that way.
[speaker002:] That's great. Uh, that, uh, now I've got the material to do an afghan that I just never did get around to finishing it.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I like those. Those are pretty.
[speaker001:] Yeah. Lilly, Lilly, she said, she said it's for your daughter to use. Oh, no. She said, I know she doesn't get to touch it. She hung it on the wall.
[speaker002:] Yes, my, uh, grandmother, um, made us a couple of quilts for the baby, and I was like, oh, I don't want to mess those up.
[speaker001:] Yeah [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh, they're just too nice. I mean you don't get many hand made quilts anymore.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] True.
[speaker002:] Well, I've enjoyed this.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] But, uh, well keep up the good, um, keep up the cross-stitching.
[speaker001:] You too.
[speaker002:] All right, thanks.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, bye bye.
[speaker002:] Bye bye.