More Needlework blather.....

[martelvonc]

Last night as I was going through hobby stuff, I realised I have been doing embroidery both mundanely and in the SCA for 25 years now. I've had crafts come and go across my worktable and I have enjoyed every last one of them but embroidery has been my favorite. For the life of me I have no idea what it is about it that gives me that right brain mode feeling.

I have very little of what I have made over the years. Mostly I give it away to others. On my walls are only 7 framed pictures and then a collection of SCA work that I do still have. I have no idea what I've sent on to other places.

Hmmmm, Is the fact that you like to give it away the sign of a good hobby? I'm determined to make somethings for myself but I'm not betting on how much I will end up keeping. When I start to think about what I would like to make next, the gears grind and the idea turns into "hey, I could make this for so and so" :-)

If you see me and I don't seem to have any needlework, it's not from lack of trying.....

Comments

[jaine-parr.livejournal.com]

I have lots of stuff that I've made, but I started 42 years ago. I have the first thing I ever made, an embroidered tea towel.

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

You still have the first thing you've ever made? Now that is cool!

What is the design on the tea towel?

[cozit.livejournal.com]

I have things that I've been working on on-and-off for *years* here... but I still have only *one* needlework projects hung on a wall in my house... and *I* am not the one who worked it. My aunt made my son a picture about 5 years ago.

Of course, if I ever finish the big-blue-blob, it'll be on a wall... it'll go to the beach with me next month, and I'll try to get to it in August... but I've got to make a new outfit for "Mistress Mabel" before the ren faire starts so who knows how much time I'll have to put into the blob. (old outfit needs patches under both arms, so after repair will be a "rainy day" back-up... with possible use at some future SCA event that I can make it to where I plan to hang out in the kitchen... although it's been over a year since I managed one of those :-( )