This past weekend, I was at my LNS (local needlework store), which currently has my trunk show of models.  While there, I was talking to a couple of the customers/stitchers about one of the pieces and so it has just been on my mind the last couple of days. While, yes, the pattern for this is available for purchase in my Etsy store (here for the paper pattern and here for the pdf version), the story behind the creation is very different than nearly all the other cross stitch p