Hiya, I am starting a new creative project, thought it might be good place to show my efforts. With a lot of wait time coming up with appointments and treatments I was looking at a portable time fill option - so hand embroidery it is! I just wanted a small, achievable, positive to not need to think too much but focus on.Starting with straight lines (oops maybe will not do it all in 24hrs...remember the slow down being the aim 😉). Then a cross stitch, then a bigger challenge. Three simple kits to start while I learn some needlework. If I am happy with my efforts, I then have a bigger free hand in mind, using some quilting project fabric I keep not having time for.... but now do for a bit. Watch this space 🙂🩷.

Onya! A project is a good distraction from treatment. I still have my sewing books from school with the stitch samplers, some have good marks as in 9/10 and others are average! Never appreciated it at the time but now I quite enjoy some embroidery and knowing how to tack something or back stitch, blanket stitch is handy occasionally!

This is memory lane! The first thing we made was a bag, to hold our sewing books and projects. Machined, press studs and then we had to draw our name on the front Flap and then chain stitch our name!@jend thanks for prompting memories and best wishes with your project and treatment Take care

@JenD congratulations on your craft project. Busy hands are great to slow the mind down while waiting for appointments etc. Can wait to see the finished projects. I do scrapbooking and I have done a bit during and after treatment. It gives me a lot of joy. @cranky_granny I am sure you will love your time with CWA and get to finish your projects.@iserbrown and @"Annie C" I think schools should bring back sewing / cooking for all students. There are a lot of kids / young adults that are unable to cook or do basic sewing. In my year 7 class we had to sew our school uniform winter skirt. Our local alterations shop charges $25.00 to take up the hem on a pair of pants / jeans. I have a daughter who is a little short and she is having some sewing lessons and one thing she is learning to take up the hem on a pair of pants. She said this was a bit boring. She changed her mind when I said the other options was for her to pay for the alterations of her pants herself.

Those of you quilting may like this one then. A home project I did this over several years (as time and motivation allowed, during my boys school years, so over about 15 years!). Started as I found a pattern I liked in a quilting magazine, then collected fabrics and put together a combination I liked. Ended up King Size. Bargello quilt on front, then so as not to waste an opportunity, a scrappy design on back, so it is two sided. It is machine quilted finished (that bit was outsourced, too much for my little janome!). I am in no hurrry to tackle anything quite as ambitious again, but might get back to a couple of ufo bundles that need finishing in the coming months too. Clean out the cupboards a bit...P.S , my minischnauzer Tisha, photobomb, not shy in being in a photo..or on the bed!)

When I was at art school (Glasgow) a year of embroidery studies was required if you intended to teach (long dropped - both me and my art school!) but you know, you just might have kicked something off - small, easy to stop and start. Now, whatever happened to my stitch book??

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JenD
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2 years ago
Ive used some crotchet doileys dying them or tea staining and on frames they make great dream catchers.
cranky_granny
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2 years ago
Great ideas in creative corner. I have all these embroidery projects that I inherited from my grandmother and mother. After mum passed in 2001 i was given her unfinished tapestry. It was great for the soul finishing it (the sky). After 23 years i still haven’t had it framed.
The others are doily sets and 2 table cloths an
d like iserbrown I still have most my school certificate work. I have great memories of my needlework/sewing classes (4 years worth.). Only part that held my pass marks down was the history in costume could never match the years with the period costumes.
My retirement plan is to get at least one of the inherited projects done a year, of course thats in-between my crochet and machine sewing crafting for the various fundraising stalls.
Before i broke my wrist i had cut out a stack of bowl cosies, hanging tea towels with matching pot holders. And paper cup folders.
I got asked on the weekend to join our local CWA group. I have a feeling Im not going to be lacking things to do when i eventually get to retire.
iserbrown
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2 years ago
Onya! A project is a good distraction from treatment. I still have my sewing books from school with the stitch samplers, some have good marks as in 9/10 and others are average! Never appreciated it at the time but now I quite enjoy some embroidery and knowing how to tack something or back stitch, blanket stitch is handy occasionally!
JenD
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2 years ago
The "modern" kits are bright and colourful. It will humour me for a bit, the distraction is good. I messaged a friend saying that all the jigsaws and embroidery is exhausting and it is now naptime 🤣 - she replied that I sounds a scene from Bridgeton! (Yah, I will take that).
arpie
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2 years ago
Well done you, @JenD!! I don't have the patience for needlework ..... I took a small cross stitch project with me on the plane to the UK in 1977 .... it was in the bin before I left the plane! LOL. I've never been good at sewing anything!!
Afraser
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2 years ago
When I was at art school (Glasgow) a year of embroidery studies was required if you intended to teach (long dropped - both me and my art school!) but you know, you just might have kicked something off - small, easy to stop and start. Now, whatever happened to my stitch book??

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