Comfort stitching

I knit sweaters for children, playing with different stitch patterns and color patterns. Those patterns I enjoy I write down and may use later. Those patterns I don't particularly enjoy are OK, too, because a child's sweater is small enough I'm finished with it fairly quickly. I've never met a member of the clergy or a school administrator who doesn't know a child or two who can use a new sweater!

that is so interesting, because although my first love is crewel work, when I'm upset or distracted I find it easier to do counted work! hmmmm... comfort stitching - definately a good surface embroidery piece

- I've almost finished my cottontail rabbit that I posted about several times! 2-3 more evenings of work! yipee!

I know an awful lot of stitchers who would argue that satin stitching requires a GREAT DEAL of thought and attention. Glad to know it's "comfort stitching" for some.

Dianne

When my brain has completely shut down (which it frequently does, thanks to this d**n disease), I have found I can crochet granny square stitch from muscle memory. I buy and bag up yarn in baby afghan quantities, and when I run out of yarn, I know it's the right size.

When I have a couple bagsful, I take them over to the battered women's shelter.

I like to work on cross stitch on the metro leaving work. I find it gives enough concentration factor to make you forget the day.

I turn to needlepoint when I need to relax. There seem to be fewer tangles and problems with needlepoint canvas than with Aida for me.

Jaenne

That sounds like cruel & unusual punishment to me! :-) You get to do the fun part and then give those poor women the chore of attaching all those squares together?? I have a giant granny square that I use as a winter bed spread for our Calif. King sized bed because I got to the end of the very first square and decided that it was just too much of a pain to attach the squares at the end so I made one big one. :-))

I also crochet for stress relief. That, or one of the Dutch Treat tabletoppers. I find the "nun stitch" very soothing. :-) Liz from Humbug

Almost any stitching is "comfort" stitching, but sometimes mending or darning is best when I am really stressed.

Cheryl

That's the way I do it, too. I only make the small squares when I am using scraps.

Mine is either more barrettes (14 count perf plastic, overdyed threads, Rhodes stitch over 5 - no changing threads, no chart) or scarf knitting.

Alison

amen , working on it commuting is heaven. i lose all my stress from the workday.

comfort food : chocolates and tea comfort stitch: cross stitch

DARNING? What`s that? ;-P I NEVER darn - since John complained, about 50 years ago, that a darn in his socks hurt his toes!!!

Pat P

Way to go. I stopped ironing all Davids shirts after I caught him re-ironing one.

Thought you`d have known better, being a Service wife! Richard won`t let ANYONE iron his shirts and trousers. In fact he does all that sort of ironing (we don`t have much that needs ironing, but we try to work it so there`s a pile when he comes home!)

I rarely buy anything that a session in the tumbledrier won`t smooth out!

Pat P

While in the RN, they did his shirts and those hateful collars. After he came out I started doing them but I guess I employed the line that if you do a job badly enough, you won't get asked to do it again. Hell, I worked and there were three kids, didn't hurt him to iron his shirts, he wore two a day, one to work and one he changed into when he got home.

I'd rather scrub a floor than iron.