How much time do you actually stitch?

Not enough. I try to aim for an hour or so a day, but I've just gone a week+ without doing any stitching at all. Just too tired by the time I'm done with everything else that needs doing/out of spoons. And, I'm back to being hooked on Civilizations IV (just got the expansion pack for my bday), so I lose too much time to that. Computer games take too much time!

Allura

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Are you thinking Monty Python too?

But did you have fun working on the spreadsheet? Sometimes that's much more important!

Louisa

When I learned this craft, it was called corking. Ihave no idea why. Does anyone else know? Louisa

When I was a kid it was called a "horse rein" and it was a handmade gizmo made from a wooden spool and 4 nails. Lucille

That's what I had. My mum had some old wooden thread spools, and my dad used those little finishing nails to make a couple for me. I think that was the summer I had to have my tonsils out, followed by two weeks of bedrest. It was a good quiet activity! Louisa

That's what I played with. I think I just made the pieces as long as the yarn held out and when there was no more yarn you finished it off. That was a lot of years ago and what I did with the completed pieces I haven't a clue.

Lucille

Well, it kept me occupied. I'm not sure I'd call it fun. I was thinking acanthus rug, woodpecker hanging, and some of the animal/ acanthus pillows. I'd like to do the lion as a footstool, if I can find or make one the right size. Now that's what I call a 10 year plan. Dora

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Something like that, best left unsaid anyway, say no more, say no more lol

I bow to your discretion. Dora

this adress doesn`treact for me .. but i know what a knitting nancy is ,, it used to be a spool with 4 nails ,,,, nowadys you can find whole planks with a big open cut and many nails around it ,, in our next exhibition we will show a work done on a 16 peg spool ,,, mirjam

Well, the knitting Nancy is now in the hands of DD who decided she wants to use it.

Cheryl

My mother has one someplace that her uncle made her just like that. She's looking for it now...

That will be a beautful collection, and an excellent ten year plan!

Louisa

I remember using the cords to make a pair of coasters for my Nan. I tried it again a few years ago using fabric strips. The pattern made what was supposed to be a turtle. I suppose it could be called that under a very broad defintion :). I think my talents definitely lie in cross stitch!

Louisa

Good question. Probably none a few days, about an hour-90 min some evenings

- while doing something else at same time. And about and hour at stitch group. Occassionally, I'll actually get a good 2-3 hours in.

Very true for me, and likely most of us as well.

ellice

This makes me laugh. The shop at which I'm working carries all the Appleton (not an ad here). But, it was all out on display, taking up a lot of valuable merchandising eye-space. So, we moved it - in an arduous task of putting each color in a heavy duty,7X9 bag, marking it, punching holes in the bags (not in this order), ringing the colors by decade, and then ending up with 5 large indsutrial, hinge-top bins with the wool. We even begged one of our other beloved RCTN'ers (local) to take on the bulk of this task. Likely because we got tired of having boards of wool for people to trip over as we had worked on reorganizing the rest of the store.

Moral of the story. As soon as that wool went into this over 5' stack of bins, in the office, we start getting hit by people wanting it. So, it seems that by taking it off display we now have sold more of it in 2 weeks than in the prior 6 months. Go figure. But we do have the color cards up on display. And the bins are light, so it's easy to find.

Anyhow - you don't have to order it from the UK - there should be some places here, besides us that you can get it sent to you.

Ellice

Sorting yarn, that's about my speed of late! Cheryl

Show dear child what the little oaks look like, hand them an old spoon and reward each one pulled up for Mommy.

I have 3 I need to paint, but two will require scaffolding, so those will go to the pros

Hear you there

Don't know about the tote, but as soon as I can hold pliers in my left hand again, I'll send you something I've been playing with....

In triplicate and triplicate again

Go buy it ready made and save yourself the headache

See hit for oaks

I am too! go for it. In carrying DS's fan up and down the stairs, I seem to have done something to my back... C