This week’s SBQ was suggested by Ish and is:
How do you choose a project for an exchange?
Do you pick solely on what you know of the taste of the recipient or are there other reasons you pick the piece you do?
Like others who responses I’ve already read, I try to choose a pattern that fits the recipient’s tastes, as well as appealing to me enough that I will enjoy stitching it. I do stitch outside of my comfort zone from time to time, but that is usually for small pieces. Larger experiments of that type can sometimes go awry and become unpleasant, which means they don’t get as much of my time or they turn into a source of frustration.
Right now, though, I’m on an exchange hiatus, because I was signing up for far too many and obligation stitching took over my life. Now that I have a really good model stitching job, I’d prefer to stitch a model on a deadline than anything else, since I get paid for it. 😉
Hmm…I think exchanges would go on the back burner for me too. Thank you for the nice comment on my kids.