There’s always that one person in the family who stands out. In our family this person married in a few years back. Until now our family has been split into two camps. St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals. Since the new cousin, there is now a New York Yankees fan. He is serious too. No matter what game and who he is with you will find him wearing his Yankees gear.

Since I’m not a huge sports fan, I’m more blend in with the crowd than stand out supporting the other team. Probably because I can’t explain/defend or otherwise justify to other die hard fans why I don’t match them. Honestly I usually don’t even wear any gear that would show loyalties.

In case you are oh so curious, I do favor the Royals as they are my brother’s favorite team, and I happen to live where their minor league team plays.

So the card was created to show him that I do pay attention to the team he likes and will stitch their logo. My mom’s friend let me take her official MLB cross stitch book from ages ago (so logos are outdated) which is how I was able to create this card.

The background is wallpaper. Can you imagine that on your wall?? I can’t, but hey to each their own. The brick really seemed fitting for baseball. I think most pro baseball fields have at least some brick making up their building, or could just be nostalgia in my own head making that up.

For the fabric I felt that off white was the best choice, not only because the baseball was in white but also stitching on 22 count, well it’s hard enough to see. The contrast isn’t huge, but enough to show the difference between baseball and old timey fabric.

I completely forgot to photograph the “finished” piece before backstitching. If you follow my Snapchat you can see real-time my progress on the now named #cardproject2019

Stitching

Started: May 21st
Finished: May 30th

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