*$%#@&!!

I started working on this quilt-themed cross-stitch pattern about two years ago. I finished some of the border, part of a basket and part of the dividing lines before it went into the "later" basket (the Boy was just a baby, and even more demanding than now.) It wasn't much, but was still several hours of work.
I just dug it out of a plastic bag buried in one of my UFO baskets. I had left the needle in the fabric, and it rusted right onto the work! I'll have to start it all over! Nuts!