I have been crazed for crafts for as long as I can remember. I don't know where that love began, but I'm fairly certain it was nourished by two things: the "Little House" series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a fabulous book called "Steven Caney's Kids' America". The first described life in frontier America, while the second actually showed you how to do all those marvelous things that are now considered crafts (rather than everyday life). The older I got, the more I delved into the world of crafts. To name just a few, there was: spinning, weaving, candle & soap making, sewing & embroidery, quilting, basket weaving, beadwork, leather craft, crochet, doll making, and various forms of unusual cookery.But my one big failure is/was knitting; I never could quite get the hang of knitting. I haven't given up, though; I recently went out and bought some knitting needles and an instructional book ("So you're too stupid to knit, huh?") in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, this time I can get it. I am unbelievably jealous of all the blogs I've seen lately boasting gorgeous knitted masterpieces.
It's a bit odd, but my urge to create things, to play about with crafts, seemed to drain away around the same time that I began TTC. Perhaps my psyche became so focused on one type of creation, that I had no mental energy left to think about another. Lately, though, I find myself thinking more and more about wanting—no, needing—to make something. To sit down with raw materials, and through the labor of my hands and mind, turn it into something else. To feel the justifiable pride of a job well done.
Yeah, it doesn't exactly take a Freud to figure me out.
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In random news, here are two comments overheard while walking in the hallway at work. The comments are unrelated, were heard at different times, and are proof that I am, at heart, still in 5th grade:
1) "So, just how big is your bush?"
2) "I get just as much pleasure from watching, and then you don't have that pain at the end of the evening."
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Hi from a fellow NCLM'er and Little House junkie! If you get the knack of knitting, will you let me know how? I'm hopeless... and so my craftiness is expressed only via my daily doses of "Martha"...
LOL -- loving the comments you overheard at work. Makes me miss my coworkers a bit, now that I work at home. The only funny stuff going on now is when the dog farts.
Oh, and if it makes you feel better, I can't knit either. If I want a beautiful blanket, I'm heading to the store.
NCLM
I'm about to try my hand at knitting, too. Let me know if you like your book.
As you know, I'm so fifth grade, too. Remember, C.'s dad? Hehe that was fun.
I can't knit either!!! LOL about the comments... I guess I am stuck in 5th with ya!!!
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Have you tried crochet? Easier than knitting but you can still get the end results. Either way, good luck with all that. I used to sew (and sell on auction at $50+ per set if you can believe that!) cloth diapers as a matching diaper/cover set. I stopped doing it after my baby died. It sucks the will right out of you I think. I'm glad you are able to get into it again.
I'm also a crafter who seems to have lost my will to create when I started having infertility problems. Funny, until I read your post I never saw the relation. Like you, I had been wanting to learn how to knit. I settled for learning crochet and then crocheted my hand into injury...lol
Love Little House too! NCLM
I will admit to being completely uncoordinated when it comes to knitting. I do other crafty things but I cannot knit anything remotely square if my life depended on it.
Good luck with your "knitting for dummies" session... I have a book and still cannot figure it out... I blame it all on being left-handed all the instructions are backwards.
Here from NCLM. I read the Little House books about 10 times each. What about Holly Hobby?
LOL at your overheard comments! I too am a 5th grader at heart!
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