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Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships
I'm having my mom knit me a fisherman's cardigan... makes me want to make one too.
Wait, actually I might make some socks as well, knitting and crocheting seems pretty nifty. |
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Originally Posted by AwwSugar
I'm not talking about dresses, you crazy woman.
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Changing the topic from
sex, I have a couple comments related to
handicrafts (which actually kind of relate to sex, too).
Beginning around 2 years before I had my child until 3 years afterwards, I was struck to my surprise by what I call my "
nesting phase" of life. This nesting phase culminated in me designing a partially passive solar home with universal design (accommodating people of all ages including those in wheel chairs).
Once the house was built (all by men, incidentally...so I have always argued that men are *very* into home stuff), I purchased a sewing machine, learned to sew, and started sewing all sorts of things for the house! I was buying fabrics left and right and making pillows and drapes and even a little cover for a tissue box, ha ha! You know you're in a nesting phase when you start making covers for tissue boxes.
I expended quite a bit of this nesting effort in my child's bedroom (see below). Then, when my child was around 3, as mysteriously as my nesting phase started, it faded away rather abruptly. So now I have all these unfinished sewing and house projects but no motivation to do them.
One such lingering project is the kitchen drapes I planned to hem. I've been staring at them now for months where they hang, with the hem tacked up with many dangerous pins, but I observe the pins inches from my dish-washing hands and think, "Meh, pins work."
I think back on my nesting phase with some amusement and bewilderment, now, but I know it happened because I am literally surrounded by the aftereffects. Here is evidence. In this room, below, you see curtains I made, an orange pillow case I made, a yellow quilted wall-hanging I made (it has a cute Winnie-the-pooh print on the side you can't see!), and a cloth liner for the tray. I was into yellow stripes, because my child likes yellow, and I like stripes. Even the little photo has yellow striped fabric in place of matboard! Finding the striped cotton floor rug took months!
I just thought I should warn all you people...you may not think it could ever happen (I didn't), but you...yes even YOU, AwwSugar...could someday find yourself sewing tray liners or covers for cardboard tissue boxes. Scary, but true.
