Poll-How many of you knit and/or crochet?

I am knit sometimes, but I get bored easily. So I have a sock that is about 6 months old now, and I'm finally approaching the heel! (Knitting from toe up). I am not allowed (according to my mother) to call it 'socks' until I finish the 1st one and start the 2nd one! A friend tried to teach me to crochet. Hopeless. To expand the poll: I have also tried to tat. Ha! Blue fingers! But I have done macrame and fancy knots like for sailing.

Sewing content :) I'm starting my very first quilt tonight! I am excited. Something new. I also have a large pile of stuff to pin and cut out while the table is cleared off. I have been playing with my new machine that does embroidery. I've made one sad looking dragonfly on an eyeglass case (learned a lot!) and have finished laying out the motifs for a blouse. off to cut squares!

liz young

I sew, knit, crochet, embroider and (very rarely) tat. Right now I have just finished a set of hat, scarf and mittens in pink Ungar Fluffy - which is an acrylic but looks and feels just like angora but does NOT shed and can be machine washed and dried - for my 3 yo DGD who is currently living in UK. I have just started a set in that yarn in melon color and a diffferent pattern for the 9yo. After those are finished, I need to do a set for the 7 yo DGS (but in a more masculine yarn) and get them all finished before about October. After those are done, I have the yarn for father/son matching sweaters for him and SIL. I also need to crochet some edging for pillowcases, and have a Jacobean cushion cover (pillow top in the US) as a WIP. Also working on a new sloper from my C & S Classic dress pattern, but will need to find someone to help me fine tune it around the back waist. Add to that the fact that everything we eat is baked from scratch - including the bread - and I keep DH's food intake perfectly balanced for his diabetes - and you will understand why I get EXTREMELY cross when people say "Oh, so you don't work?"

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I crochet, embroider, do ribbon work, woodworking, sketching, skulpting, crafts of all sorts, costuming and dressmaking, and as to knitting......weeeelllllllllllll.......I'm afraid that that's one craft that I never could master. In that I am limited to knit 1 or

-- Hugs, Lynn

snipped-for-privacy@shawCLOTHES.ca

I crochet, and have learned to knit (including cabling) but I've not yet done any knitted projects, only practice.

Courtney

Hi,

This is my first posting - although I've been 'loitering' for a while - enjoying the newsgroups enormously.

I first learned to knit taught by my mother as a child, then my sister taught me to crochet (that was difficult as she is left handed and I'm not !). Then I learned to sew at school - I still have the first apron I made - hand sewn in bright yellow check ! The I went on to patchwork and recently have taken up embroidery and Cross Stitch.

I can't wait to retire so I can do more of them all - I am still working full time - only 9 years to go.

I was taught to knit as a child of 10 and then taught to crotchet in my early-teens.

At high school, sewing was part of the curriculum in the first year and unfortunately for me the sewing teacher (more of a fashion plate/model) made the lessons boring as hell.

It wasn't until I was married with small children that financial circumstances made sewing for them (rather than store-bought) a must. This of course meant I had to teach myself which in turn meant there were quite a few disasters, which is now labelled as experience. Even mending something simple such as the fly on DH trousers proved all projects need some thought as I actually sewed it shut (but it was neat) and repairing a pocket resulted a pocket 4" deep (he is such a tolerant man ;o) ).

However this necessity grew into a love of sewing and all that it entails.

My sewing machine takes care of embroidery but I also do and enjoy Russian (or needle punch) Embroidery.

Tatting is something I have never attempted but who knows, maybe 1 day when my stash is gone ;o) I will give it a try.

I sew, knit, crochet, Hardanger, and just about any other craft I will try at least once.

-- Star love, Norma ;-)