Posted on 10/12/2005 6:35:50 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
Ok, come out of the woodwork. We know you are out there, doing needlework at your computer terminal. Knitters, cross stitchers, crocheters and others. What's your craft? Wanna share? Want to form an online knitting circle or whatever?
What do you do? Wanna talk about it?
Needlework ping! I know there are more of us out there. If you know someone who likes needle crafts or related stuff, tell'em to come and talk to us!
I'm not very sophisticated with my needle work. I consider it therapy. I'm currently working on a Christmas stocking for my new daughter in law ... felt applique and a crocheted baby blanket for my new great nephew. I know it's not needlework but I'm also going to do a little scrap book for him spelling out his name with photos of his immediate family.
If any of you knitters are interested in acquiring hand washed, hand dyed, hand spun wool, let me know. I have a (reasonably priced) source for you.
Close enough for me! For a few years, I had the job of making christmas stockings for a group of kids my mom's work sponsored. Making them can be fun. I never made any two alike...Simple felt pattern, and then I had great fun with glue and trims....
Cool...I knit for reenactors. It's getting almost impossible to find 100 percent wool for the projects I make...I spin, some, but don't really have time to do what I do and spin, too...
LOL, yeah!
Sounds like a fun post; unfortunately, I am craft impaired. Sigh... I keep most of the crafty people in supplies by shopping at craft shows.
Bump for later!
Spin and weave on a four harness jack loom.
I used to have a handweaving studio when I lived out east, now I just do it for pleasure and as an aesthetic and creative exercise.
Bump for later!
I heart counted cross stitch!
If there was a way to quit my current job and just craft all the time, I would do it in a heartbeat.
I would love to join your "group"!
I'm an avid cross stitcher. Have enough patterns to open my own store. Haven't done any in a while. Will pick it up again as soon as I get my kitten declawed in a couple of weeks.
My grandma brainwashed me as a baby...I think she taught me how to thread a needle when I was maybe 4. I have no memory of learning how. I have just always done it.
She also taught me a little bit about embroidery and how to crochet when I was 9...and I sort of picked up knitting on my own with a little bit of help around the same age.
This is what happens when you corrupt a kid....turn'em into crafting junkies...
I'm jealous of your loom. ;}
Neat!
My Grandma tried to teach me to embroider when I was a kid, but I was all thumbs. My mom was a terrific crafter. She'd go to shows, look stuff over then go home and create her own or recreate what she'd seen and liked. She once told me "any idiot can cross stitch"; well here is one 'idiot' who can't!
Both of my grown daughters all on their own have taught themselves to crochet and to knit and to quilt. In fact, I kid the oldest about taking over from Martha Stewart next time Martha goes to jail.
Isn't amazing how the crafting books and supplies just pile up? I mostly do small pieces, like socks and knitted lace, but boy, even buying little bits of yarn it adds up...
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