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I had no interest in sewing or any needlecraft until I was 19 and then I taught myself to crochet. Through the years I have made afghans, sweaters, hats, mittens, a dress, a coat for a niece, and a skirt and jacket suit for myself.
I took up cross stitch and finished a sampler and gifts for family members.
I tried tatting and while I never became an expert, I did manage a few hanky edgings.
I bought a sewing machine when I was thirty and made clothes for my kids. (Mostly p.j.'s) I decided to tackle slipcovers for a sofa that had a stain. I did what I consider to be a really good job. Lasted for six years until we moved. Not bad for four boys and a dog!
I still crochet but despite having a hang-it-around-your-neck magnifier, I have trouble with counted cross. The fingers don't want to cooperate with tatting. The sewing machine just plain wore out.
I'm not determined enough to conquer knitting despite several attempts.
My favorite crochet patterns are Aran stitches.
Might have been a weaver - someone offered to give me a loom but they withdrew the offer when their family insisted that it stay in the family. In the basement. Oh, well.
I had no interest in sewing or any needlecraft until I was 19 and then I taught myself to crochet. Through the years I have made afghans, sweaters, hats, mittens, a dress, a coat for a niece, and a skirt and jacket suit for myself.
I took up cross stitch and finished a sampler and gifts for family members.
I tried tatting and while I never became an expert, I did manage a few hanky edgings.
I bought a sewing machine when I was thirty and made clothes for my kids. (Mostly p.j.'s) I decided to tackle slipcovers for a sofa that had a stain. I did what I consider to be a really good job. Lasted for six years until we moved. Not bad for four boys and a dog!
I still crochet but despite having a hang-it-around-your-neck magnifier, I have trouble with counted cross. The fingers don't want to cooperate with tatting. The sewing machine just plain wore out.
I'm not determined enough to conquer knitting despite several attempts.
My favorite crochet patterns are Aran stitches.
Might have been a weaver - someone offered to give me a loom but they withdrew the offer when their family insisted that it stay in the family. In the basement. Oh, well.
Oh, too bad about the loom. My idea of zen heaven is to sit quietly in a room with a view out the window and make artsy, creative weavings.
Wish I had a loom. Always thought I'd like to learn that. But now we don't have room for one. I always remember my mother saying that was the sickly child's job - working the loom. The person who didn't have the stamina to work outside on the farm. That was their job.
I knit, crochet, weave, spin, and dye yarn. I sell my wares at craft shows and fiber festivals.
As I am retired I have the time to devote to this---and it gives me purpose---but I love seeing the number of younger people, including men, who are involved in the fiber arts.
I knit, crochet, weave, spin, and dye yarn. I sell my wares at craft shows and fiber festivals.
As I am retired I have the time to devote to this---and it gives me purpose---but I love seeing the number of younger people, including men, who are involved in the fiber arts.
How do you get to selling your things? And how on earth do you manage to make enough to fill a booth or table at a show?
There's an alpaca farm nearby and something else exotic and they both open up on certain days. It's on my list to get there and fondle the goods (none of which I think I could comfortably afford).
Yes, I did crewel embroidery and it was much more beautiful than cross stitch.
I made this crewel replica between husbands, so that must have been about 1978-1980. Sorry it is sideways.
Funnily enough, I met the sister of the friend of a friend, who had married a Dutch man, and so, had lived in the Netherlands. She visited my house and had also made the exact same embroidery.
It is a Williamsburg replica.
LOL, I think of it as a tribute to my younger eyes.
I said in a previous post, my mother didn’t embroider. But when she was a young wife and mother, she bought a cross stitch kit of a pheasant. She’d do a little and put away. Do a little more and put it away. It took her 17 years to finish it.
A couple years later, she and my sister went to visit the Dwight Eisenhower farm. In one of the rooms...the cross stitch pheasant. Apparently Mamie made hers MUCH faster.
A few years ago I decided to have a year of living creatively. I made tons of stuff, and I was at my sewing machine daily.
That Christmas I got a crewel kit of the ruffed grouse, the Pennsylvania State Bird. And it’s sat. I think I’m going to have to institute another creative year. It’s funny, the things I love to do always seem to get shunted to the rear to do things that don’t bring me joy.
Gotta stop that.
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