Thursday, November 21, 2024

Sometimes You're Overwhelmed By Craft Choices

Look at all of these cross-stitch Christmas ornaments!

Well, the ones you can see without glare.  They're from
which I picked up yesterday.  Oh, I  wanna make so many of them!

Among all the magazines on offer, these:
Four magazines about soup!  And stews --- I don't want the stew lobbyists on my case.  There are, in case you didn't know, magazines published on practically any and every topic.  EXTREME niches.  If you're curious about your fellow humans' interests, visit a newsstand.

I've been trying to cull through things around the house lately.  Tucked into the back corner of a closet was this:
This bag is from the long-gone knit shop that my mother used to knit for.  It was a charming little place, and I was sorry to see it go.  But there is this to remind me of it, and of all those pleated skirts Mama made.  SO many pleated skirts.  Handknit pleated skirts were apparently the way to go in Nashville for a while.

2 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

I love to browse magazines and buy more if they weren't so expensive! lol

Araignee said...

I have a few of those ornament magazines. i used to love them but I never got around to making anything from them. I think I still have a few around here somewhere.

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