I do most of the “granny” hobbies. I have been knitting since I was about 10! I find it is the process that is relaxing, not the final product. I just ripped apart a flower I crocheted because I wanted to use the color for something else. It was as much fun the second time I used that yarn as the first!
I kept trying to get my daughter to learn how to crochet to no luck. Then at age 51 just a few months ago she asked me to teach her, and she is hooked (pun intended)
She says the 30 minutes of crochet she wants to do before bed is the best 3 hours of her day!
My granny hobby would be sewing if my dog could climb stairs. My major at the university was home economics (human ecology). I could teach all sorts of granny hobbies. 😄
My main hobbies now are collecting Bibles and feeding squirrels and birds.
LOL! Loved that quote!
I am a Crocheter, too. I learned to knit in 4-H, but it just didn’t stick. Crochet is wonderful. I make Baby Blankets for ‘Project Linus’ and ‘Comfort Mats’ for dogs and cats at our local no-kill shelter and Premie Caps and Scarves for ‘Warm Up America’ and about eleventy-thousand of those cotton kitchen dish cloths. Family and friends demand them of me!
Mom had an elderly friend who was giving up on her yarn crafts and I got FIVE big, black trash bags full of yarn! It all went to use in the above projects - took me a good two years to get through it all. What a blessing that was! :)
Same, I love to knit and crochet. I always crank it up this time of year for Christmas gifts. My grown kids all really love the small crochet stuffed animals (amigurumi) and request specific characters each year, lol.
The most pleasant thing recently is at our church we have a ton of large homeschool families and so many of the girls are taking knitting or crochet at the local homeschool coop. They all walk around with their little knit/crochet totes and love to share what they’re working on.
“I find it is the process that is relaxing, not the final product.”
So true. I saw a sampler once that said something like “Screw the product. Relish the process”.
My hand work totally relaxes me.