VRWKNWC: Conservative Crafters of the World, Unite!

me | 12/7/06 | Knitting a Conundrum

[Knitting A Conundrum]

OK.

Who's still crafting?

What are you doing?

Got any pictures?

[Indy Pendance]

Doesn't the hobbits and horse and terrorists people have threads that are ongoing? Keep this going for awhile, and if it gets too big, like you suggested, start a new one. Every now and then, ping us to jump start it.

I'll tell you about the news, I've been looking forward to something less bleak, and this might just serve a niche for a bunch of us. I hate to quit FR, but the posts lately have been quite depressing.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You know it.

I hang out on the Middle East daily thread, this thread, and another thread I started called the Prayer Room. So much is either so down or so bickering, or just unpleasant, that if I didn't have these refuges, I don't know what I would do.

[Indy Pendance]

I belong to a local church group, which is refreshing. I used to come here for regular updates on current events and news, and discussions of politics. It's really depressing when every thread is a bash bush, Jorge, bush is evil, from people who claim they voted for him, people from the republican party..... You know the drill. I think there is something troubling going on with FR. It's not the same place I joined 6 years ago. I am toying with the idea of just quitting the internet. I have a pretty neat home page (a lot of time went into that), but why bother when so many posters don't get the overall picture?

[Mercat]

I didn't know that oysters and frog legs were controversial. Okra is just a veggie which a lot of people can't stand. I don't know that it's politically incorrect or anything.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Okra is wonderful. Slimy, but wonderful. And will grow in the heat of summer down south where not a whole lot of things will.

One of my last memories of my grandfather before he had a stroke that would make him bedridden was walking out to my grandma's garden with him while he picked some okra...I must have been 4 or 5...

Grandma made the best fried okra...but I like it boiled more...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Frogs' legs and oysters are controversial?

[Indy Pendance]

Oysters are 'harvested' in polluted waters, depending upon the season and how much pollution came down the Mississippi, you know, it can be deadly (it's probably Bush's fault). Frog's legs are, similar, you know, it can be deadly (again, Bush's fault, he's from Texas, he should KNOW!) They live in a polluted climate, and suck up all the bad environmental junk us humans subject them too (GOP's fault). I thought Orka might have been on the eviron's watch list (being a plant, I couldn't understand why they'd be worrisome, you know, not subjected to evil meateaters). I like okra, it's a tad on the slimy side (must be the dem's traits seeping through), but that's it's unique characteristic.

[Indy Pendance]

see 187, I know, but these are 'real' thoughts.

[bannie]

I like to play with mud. Gray mud or red mud...usually gray mud.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I have eaten frog's legs. We do eat oysters (cooked, not raw) regularly here...seems silly...any food can get contaminated.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

And do you fire it up later?

[Indy Pendance]

Well, that's the latest I heard from the envirowackos junk.

[Indy Pendance]

Where did that come from?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Bannie playing with red and grey mud...sounds like what I did when I used to make some simple pots...

[Indy Pendance]

Sounds like he got some stuck up his nose.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

LOL....you bad! ;)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Morning, FRiends and crafters!

Here's a nice resource for quilters and those who like to look at old quilts:

America's Quilting History

Come with me on this journey as we explore the history of quilts and the lives of the women who made them.

http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/

[IN Farm Girl]

What a fantastic website! Thanks for posting the addy, KAC!

Indianapolis has (or maybe just had) the Gee's Bend Quilters exhibit at the Museum of Art. Hoosier Stitchers, which is a Yahoo! group that I belong to, just toured the exhibit, but I was not able to attend.

Quilts tell such stories. Really, all crafts do, but quilts seem to do so on a different scale.

[IN Farm Girl]

In today's parlance, Indy, you 'da bomb. I admire you greatly; thanks for sharing your story!

[IN Farm Girl]

These are going to be some of my projects for the new year:

http://www.littlehouseneedleworks.com/threadpacks.html; scroll down to "Scripture Thread Packs".

I plan to finish them as small pillows and display them all together in a bowl or pie plate from Clay City (IN) Pottery (http://www.claycitypottery.com/). I think it will look just super old-timey and honor my Hoosier heritage as well.

Hope the links work.