2019 Procrastinated Valentine's Day Gift

TL;DR: Got distracted by too many projects, got laid off, got depressed and still haven’t finished a V-Day gift for my boyfriend. Muffin and Nugget Pattern will be up for free with some alterations upon completing it!

Hi, everyone!

So I feel so behind with Christmas gifts that it actually affected other gifts I was supposed to have time for. I decided when I first started dating Cody that I wanted to make him gifts for each major holiday. I’ve always felt that homemade gifts show how much time you’re willing to give to another person…

I started dating Cody in 2017, after Valentine’s day… thank goodness… (Not great at last minute projects… unless they’re for school).

Our first year together, I made him a foam Squirtle. This year I decided on a cross stitch, custom pattern of us. I wanted it to represent us in our everyday lives, while also being comical. So I went with our nicknames for each other a base. He calls my Muffin and I call him Nugget. Of course, focused on Valentine’s Day there was going to be hearts, so that way easy enough.

I sketched out my initial concept on some paper to get a better idea of what I was looking for (Picture won’t be provided since I am garbage at drawing). I then used PCStitch to get a better idea of what I wanted for size and colors. Initially, I picked the colors in PCStitch, but decided to use what I had on-hand instead. I went to my only local hobby shop, Hobby Lobby, and bought a hoop for the project. Came home and started working….

I was still behind on Christmas gifts so I chose to focus my efforts elsewhere and stopped working on the project entirely… My bad.

Once I finished the Christmas gifts, I got another project in my head and started working on that… and then… I got laid off from my day job. I’ll be honest I got depressed and it made it harder for me to do things I love. Sort of a weird punishment, but its what I did.

Anyway, this was the original concept!