I’m so creative with my post title today, aren’t I?
Anyway, I decided last weekend when I found one of my mom’s old embroidery hoops that I should take up embroidery again. My grandma gave me an embroidery kit once for Christmas when I was a kid and, though I started one of the samplers, I never finished.
No, I didn’t do this, but maybe someday…
I bought some embroidery floss and a fat square the other day when Miss Tadpole and I went to pick out the fabric for her home ec. project. I don’t have a pattern yet, but I was thinking something in a fleur de lis would be pretty. Of course, since I bought green and red floss, maybe I should stick with a holly and berry theme? That would be pretty too.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
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Suddenly they all died. The end. 
I love embroidery, but I haven’t had a project to get my teeth into for a while. I spend too much time writing, though I do enjoy knitting. I’m starting a project for my nephew, who is almost two. It’s a monkey, which suits him because he is a little monkey!
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Sounds familiar, though I never learned how to knit. My mom tried to teach me how to crochet once, but it didn’t go very well. I know the chain stitch and that’s it. But as I have two little monkeys of my own, it would be fun to learn! 🙂 Alas, there just aren’t enough hours in the day for all the things I want to do.
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I’m with you there! There’s so much I wish I had time for. I struggled with knitting too, in the beginning. But I’m stubborn so I wouldn’t let it beat me! I have a strange technique, but if it works, what does it matter 😉
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I alwyays used to feel my aunties cringe when they watched me take my hand off the needle to put around the wool. Never could master the flick with one finger method! 😀
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Me either – it’s a skill I envy, but I gave up trying a long time ago! Now I just go with the flow because the job gets done eventually 🙂
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I wanted to keep at it, but I think my mom lost patience with me. She said she’d try again when I got older, but she died before she had the chance. I tried to teach myself ten years ago or so, but I couldn’t make sense of the diagrams.
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I’m sorry she didn’t get the chance, and I’m sorry for your loss. No matter how long ago it still hurts.
I know what you mean about the diagrams. I can never understand them. Strangely I learnt a great deal from YouTube! People demonstrate just about anything – I also practised a little origami 🙂
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I should check out the YouTube tutorials. You know, if I can find a little spare time. 😛
I love origami! I did my first origami project in third grade – it was a box. I made a lot of boxes. I made a lot of stars, too, and fortune tellers (ah, the teen years!), but I never managed to make a crane. I love those paper cranes – they’re so pretty. 🙂
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I make the cranes, I love them too 🙂 I’ve made a few for family, but mainly make little books now – they’re kind of cute!
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I’ve never seen origami books – what do they look like?
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Like this…
I hope that link works!
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That is awesome! It’s so cute, and I love the cover. 🙂
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Thank you. I’ve emailed you the story by the way – hope you like it 🙂
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I just read it and I LOVE IT! 🙂 I just emailed you back. 🙂
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Thanks so much! I’m really glad you like it. It was a great photograph and the story all but told itself 🙂
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I love it when that happens. 🙂
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The best way to learn is to get a knitter who uses the opposite hand to you – like if you’re righted handed, you get a left handed knitter to show you. Somehow it is easier for the brain to cope with the movements when you sit in front of each other. The suggestion beow is ideal – youtube.
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That’s a good idea – I wouldn’t have thought of that! 🙂
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Are you contractually bound to leave absolutely no free time for yourself?
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Apparently. 🙂
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I started a huge embroidery project back in the 1980s – a basket full of flowers, using every stitch ever invented. Every now and then while cleaning up, I’ll come across it and vow to finish it. Maybe I will one day. It is a wonderfully soothing activity, from memory. 😀
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That’s initially what got me interested in taking another stab at it. Lord knows I could use a soothing activity right now.
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I love this little peek into your projects 🙂 Embroidery sounds nice, very Victorian to me, and I like the Victorian period. I never attempted this skill, I got only as far as crocheting.
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Crocheting didn’t go well for me, but if I had a few spare hours and a good teacher, I’d love to take another crack at it. As I recall, I wasn’t very good at embroidery, either, but I need something to calm me down other than reading and maiming my characters.
That said, maiming one’s characters can be quite cathartic. 😉
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Now I want to go maiming some characters 🙂
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So did I yesterday, but after freezing corn till 4:00 a.m. this morning, I’m too tired for that anymore. 🙂
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