Why I make
Jan. 16th, 2008 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redrose(Watching an episode of Craft in America.
I admire the skill that these people have, the knowledge, the ability. They are all making a living making, and that is beautiful.)
I learned to cross stitch in the summer of 1989, and since then, I have taught myself several other forms of embroidery. I learned to sew in high school. The Girl Scouts taught me to crochet in second grade, but I forgot how til my first year of grad school. I got obsessed with crochet then, and a friend taught me how to knit, and I really never went back to crochet. Since then, I've also learned to tat, and will learn to spin and weave as well. At some point, I'd like to play with temari and kumihimo, and braiding, and small loom weaving.
I make because I don't like sitting still, and it gives me something productive to do with my hands.
I make because I like making something.
I knit because it's in my genes - my mother's mother was a knitter, and a very good one too.
I tat because my father's mother tatted - it's one making I know she did, and I only found out years after her death.
Knitting and tatting connect me to my family, on both sides, in some profound way that I really don't have the words for.
I admire the skill that these people have, the knowledge, the ability. They are all making a living making, and that is beautiful.)
I learned to cross stitch in the summer of 1989, and since then, I have taught myself several other forms of embroidery. I learned to sew in high school. The Girl Scouts taught me to crochet in second grade, but I forgot how til my first year of grad school. I got obsessed with crochet then, and a friend taught me how to knit, and I really never went back to crochet. Since then, I've also learned to tat, and will learn to spin and weave as well. At some point, I'd like to play with temari and kumihimo, and braiding, and small loom weaving.
I make because I don't like sitting still, and it gives me something productive to do with my hands.
I make because I like making something.
I knit because it's in my genes - my mother's mother was a knitter, and a very good one too.
I tat because my father's mother tatted - it's one making I know she did, and I only found out years after her death.
Knitting and tatting connect me to my family, on both sides, in some profound way that I really don't have the words for.
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Date: 2008-01-17 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-17 05:16 pm (UTC)Did you have a pattern in mind? I mad these (http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=1593) once, and they were okay, but looser than I wanted, so I gave them to hun. If you want the pattern I have a copy somewhere.
I can show you how to crochet, and I don't think I've ever tatted in front of you.