My mum (76 years young) has got into cross stitch in a big way.
She did me a smashing cat lying on a branch which was quite difficult for her first one and she's just done me a pair of amerindians which I had bought for me about 10 years ago and never did (they are utterly splendid, very art deco in shades of red and black, long & narrow and I can't wait to get them up on the wall).
She's currently doing a floral one for her self but thinks it's boring.
The main problem is, she's so darn fast! I got her into cross stitch as there are just limits on wooly jumpers in my wardrobe and wool isn't cheap and she knits so bloody quick, I've been known to give jumpers away almost as soon as she's knitted them (so if anyone has a hankering for well knitted jumpers/baby clothes/coats etc, you know who to contact) I then got her into knitting for Oxfam and she's happily been knitting little jumpers for refugee kids, and now she spends every news report from Africa looking to see if any of the kids are wearing her jumpers. But that bored her in the end as they are very simple and all the same design.
So I thought that cross stitch would keep her occupied for days, weeks, months, years.
But Mum doesn't do anything other that cross stitch. All day. So they grow really quite fast.
I'm tempted to buy her the Teresa Wentzler dragon for xmas. That should slow her down a bit.
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She did me a smashing cat lying on a branch which was quite difficult for her first one and she's just done me a pair of amerindians which I had bought for me about 10 years ago and never did (they are utterly splendid, very art deco in shades of red and black, long & narrow and I can't wait to get them up on the wall).
She's currently doing a floral one for her self but thinks it's boring.
The main problem is, she's so darn fast!
I got her into cross stitch as there are just limits on wooly jumpers in my wardrobe and wool isn't cheap and she knits so bloody quick, I've been known to give jumpers away almost as soon as she's knitted them (so if anyone has a hankering for well knitted jumpers/baby clothes/coats etc, you know who to contact)
I then got her into knitting for Oxfam and she's happily been knitting little jumpers for refugee kids, and now she spends every news report from Africa looking to see if any of the kids are wearing her jumpers. But that bored her in the end as they are very simple and all the same design.
So I thought that cross stitch would keep her occupied for days, weeks, months, years.
But Mum doesn't do anything other that cross stitch. All day. So they grow really quite fast.
I'm tempted to buy her the Teresa Wentzler dragon for xmas. That should slow her down a bit.
FF