Who stitches outside

I used to stitch in the car way back when, but always with the windows closed.

Outdoors here is impossible. It's either too sunny, too humid or pouring rain.

Lucille

Not me. As a child, maybe 5/6 at a convent school, we stitched outside one day. Maybe I was distracted but somehow I caught a stitch through to my skirt. I was beaten for it with the bamboo stick by the nun, so I am now averse to stitching outside ! Pavlovs dog syndrome.

Me. I love to stitch outside. One our small front deck. Under the umbrella. But once the temperature hits 80 it's usually to humid for me to handle. That's why I like the spring and fall.

Donna in Virginia

That happens a lot. The catching stitches to clothes. Hopefully the other part doesn't any more.

Cheryl

Stitching to clothing I do fairly often. Fortunately stitching to my knee not quite as often, but on a rare occasion it has happened.

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Absolutely, at the cottage. The light is fantastic. I have two places. On the deck, with a small round table and an umbrella over the top. And in my boat. The boat is sheer luxury. It is a "deck" boat; basically a pontoon boat on a hull. It has a comfortable chair for the driver, and a table is in just the right place. There is a bimini for shade. Tied up at the dock, there is often a very gentle rocking motion from the water. There is a radio, CD player, and it is just ba wonderful place to stitch, once the weather gets warmer, and the flies and mosquitoes disappear.

Do I want details? C

It's Florida and I'm often wearing shorts. I don't really like a sit-on frame or a standing frame because it forces you to sit up straight and generally I prop my hoop or roller frame on one knee when I'm doing needlework and just let things fall into my lap when I'm doing a hem. I sit crunched into a corner with one leg under me and the other bent with knee up.

I know, I know that's not a pretty picture. lol

Every so often I'll pick up the very top layer of skin on my bony knee and not even feel it until I tug the thread to see where it's stuck.

Most of the time I do it so efficiently and delicately that it doesn't even bleed, but on occasion I've had to drop everything on the floor to avoid a stain. Not too smart, but too much of a habit to try to change now.

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I used to. Lately though the pine trees which were mere saplings when I moved in 16 years ago are putting out so much pollen that in a matter of minutes, my nose clogs and little flecks of yellow/green stuff attaches itself to the work.

Me, me, me!!! I love to stitch outside - on the deck, in the car, in the park, at the pool....anywhere. My absolute favorite is at a music festival/outdoor concert - the combination of outdoors, people-watching, live music, and luscious stitching is sheer nirvana.

Sue (hoping the weather and my calendar cooperate for a fiddler's convention this weekend)

I do, at times. Thinking about once the yard is cleaned up having a little stitch get together on the deck. There's a good table, etc. But, also depends on the breeze.

I also have a pair of sunglass readers - which are good when it's really bright.

ellice

I do - at baseball games and sometimes just outside. As long as it's not too windy, it's great! I always work in a hoop or on a frame, so I've never (so far) managed to sew myself to my clothes (or knees - LOL!). Like ellice, I've invested in a pair of sunglass readers. Which reminds me - I need to find them again!

linda

Up here at just over 59 degrees North and about 2 degrees West (same latitude as Oslo and Stockholm and about 4 degrees further north than Moscow) it's rarely warm enough to do anything outside except for a bit of unarmed gardening

I love to stitch outside. It's usually too hot on summer mornings (unless you have a desire to be up at 5am), then we are usually treated to a strong sea breeze in the afternoon which makes it impossible to stitch outside. It is bliss to enjoy the winter sun and stitch, though I still have to wear a hat as I get sunburned even in the midst of winter. I always try to have a portable stitching project for winter, as my DH and his friends try to get to go Motorcrossing most weekends, and I tag along to mind the cars (shockingly high theft area) so I sit and stitch while they ride. I know our cold is nothing like snow cold of the northern hemisphere, but the freezing wind that can howl through the pine plantation where we go is bone chilling - and we have little use for the thick clothing of our Northern Hemisphere cousins. I use the term pine plantation loosely, alas somehow the European House Borer

has got through our usually rigourous quarantine and has caused major infestations in our pine plantations which are gradually being smashed down and burned to try and rid us of this pest. Joanne in Perth, Western Australia - the 'other' windy city!!

Does any one here stitch outside?

Cheryl

Yes, and I love it! I take my basket, current project, a pitcher of iced tea, and the dog out to the front porch! It's a lovely way to get together with neighbors, enjoy the weather and good light, and ignor the telephone. The front porch is one of the big reasons I chose my house -- the house is a smallish Victorian in a historic neighborhood with a brick street, lots of trees, and great neighbors. It's a traditional porch, and I have wicker furniture, a few pots with plants, and a water bowl for the dog. I love it!

I stitch outside at my patio table whenever I can. The way the tall oak/pine/fir trees are, I can put the table in a few different spots where I can be in dappled shade almost all day long. Sometimes it's actually easier to see in shade than in direct sun. During the dry weather, I try to spend at least one day each week just sitting outside and stitching, getting up occasionally to move the hose in the garden or hang the clothes on the line.

I DID have to move the table last week when I was stitching. I was apparently in a major fly zone for the hummingbirds that we feed every year. They were really swarming last week (going through a gallon of liquid a day) & I didn't want to have to wash hummingbird poop off of my work! :-) Liz from Humbug

"Bruce Fletcher wrote

At about 50 degrees latitude, considerably south of you, we are having frost tonight. Again. :-(

Dawne

Thanks to the Gulf Stream our island has cool summers and mild winters. We rarely get frost or snow, only twice in the last five years have we seen the ground "white over" with frost and only twice have we seen significant (more than 0.5 inches) falls of snow. We're hoping for good weather tomorrow (Saturday) as it's the Stronsay Regatta.

There have been frost advisories all week here.

C