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To: Ladypixel

Ladypixel, you're in good company here! I have stash for knitting and crochet in yarn and cotton, sewing, free embroidery in both silk and cotton, finger weaving, inkle weaving, I have a tapestry loom to do erzatz navaho style weaving that my dad made me, a 32 inch asford rigid heddle loom, but it is in its' box right now, a majacraft double treadle spinning wheel, multiple drop spindles, a carder, cards and combs for wool processing, dyestuffs and equipment, paints and canvas (although I haven't done that in awhile), beading stuff (but I am just a novice and don't really do much), three sewing machines (from a merged household when I got married. He had one, I had one, and I bought another, but I sold the serger, which was my mom's, cause I had never used it.)

I don't have the hugest yarn stash, cause I specialize in things like socks and small items, and so I buy my yarn in 100 gram amounts. But it's amazing how fast that piles up.

I have fabric for the quilts I'm intending to make, fabric for the reenactor clothes I am going to make (I have an excuse now...been on a diet for seven months and don't dare make any period clothes until my weight stabilizes), fabric for the curtains I am going to make...and so on. Not the hugest stash, but all natural fabrics like linen, cotton, silk, wool...

And I have a small collection of antique needlework supplies, like silk threads from the 20s, lots of vintage knitting needles, even a few bone ones...a quilt frame, a dress form that is too large for me (I'm saving it to stand next to the one I'm going to get in the future, so I can stand them next to each other), a large box of patterns that are too large for me (nice feeling!), my mom's stash of craft books, my stash of craft books...

I've joked with my hubby. We need a double house. One to live in, one to play in.


99 posted on 10/12/2005 7:15:29 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Due to my spouse's dependancy on needlework, I travel with a National Quilter's directory.

Do I qualify?

My wife quilts and has taken over the largest of our other bedrooms as the Needlework Center.

Do I qualify?

My wife does Needlepoint projects. Certain items each year or each grandchild. She is on a deadline for her most recent Grandaughter's Christmas stocking to go to the finisher and has redone certain areas four times to get them just right. She does it past midnight, riding in the car, while doing most anything.

Do I qualify?

She crochets and cross stiches....but that is another story.

Do I qualify.

The Stash is a walk-in closet...

Do I Qualify?

I have been to probably over two hundred quilt shops in the last nine years.

Do I qualify?

Lastly, one year I almost shocked her to death. I worked it out that the week before Christmas, when we dropped into a store to browse and perhaps pickup some thread, there was a New Bernina Quilter's Edition machine waiting with her name on it.

She cross stiched the covers to all of our wedding invitations while completing a MBA in night school and selling a house. (I got her a tee shirt that said: "I want to be Martha, That B#tch can do anything) I guess you better put me on your ping list.

156 posted on 10/14/2005 11:51:39 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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