A couple of Fridays ago, I called in to the Sewing Basket and for a total of $15 scored a perfect pair of unopened vintage Semco aluminium 3mm needles, a small scroll frame, a piece of needlepoint fabric and …

This cross stitch kit for $5! It’s a cross stitch of this work. And appears to be merch from a Cluck Close exhibition at the MCA in 20014/15!

AMAZING! I haven’t seen anything like this before and can find no reference to it on the InformationSuperhighway.

The original aida was missing, but the threads and pattern were all included.

I don’t know why we would want a giant young Phillip Glass on my wall, but I’m very keen to give it a crack. I’m interested to see how the pixel-like blockiness of the pattern translates in cross stitch.

It calls for 11 count aida, which makes for quite big crosses. I was considering going even bigger with 6 count Aida – but that was prohibitively expensive for what is essentially an experiment.

I grabbed some aida from haberdashery-chain-store so I’ll be ready when it calls to me.

I also impulse bought an unrelated crafting tool at haberdashery-chain-store, but that is a story for another time.

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