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.

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??

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!!

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