[speaker001:] okay well some of the things I like to do are I like to knit I knit sometimes and I sew
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and um I like to sew sometimes for my kids I I sew clothes for them every once in a while and I make quilts so
[speaker002:] um-hum oh wow that's the next project that I'd like to learn to do I do mostly hand needlework like cross stitch and crewel embroidery and I'm I'm beginning to get a little bored with cross stitch and was thinking maybe need to learn to quilt
[speaker001:] after a while cross stitch I think I don't know I have to put it away and then I have to bring it back you know and and uh
[speaker002:] it gets boring um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know why that is I don't know if it's looking at the little things little things every time
[speaker002:] well it just reaches a point where it doesn't seem to be very challenging I think
[speaker001:] yeah that might be it that might and yet there's uh
[speaker002:] but I do a a lot of it in the car we yeah we commute from Plano to Dallas
[speaker001:] oh do you oh
[speaker002:] so I have nearly an hour both ways that I can really get a lot of work done and I found that cross stitch is the easiest to do in the car
[speaker001:] oh I bet yeah
[speaker002:] I don't know that I could even think about quilting you have to have a pretty good frame don't you to do any kind of quilting work
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] um I've not really done any too much challenging um stuff I I can do it with a a needle and thread you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh and get about five small stitches in which is pretty good but it's very long
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's very tedious if you don't have a whole group you're not finishing a quilt in a long time
[speaker002:] oh I bet but it's such a lost art
[speaker001:] so uh so um I like to just mostly do the tie quilts that's so much easier
[speaker002:] uh-huh yes
[speaker001:] but uh the other ones are very pretty they're uh we have a quilt on our bed that's uh instead of like yarn
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they tied um ribbon into it
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and it's real pretty that's real pretty
[speaker002:] I bet there's so many things I wish I had learned to do with my mother she had crocheted a full bedspread it's kind of a hobnail looking thing
[speaker001:] oh wow
[speaker002:] and when I look at it now she's been dead for a long time I think oh why didn't I learn these crafts and skills from her because she could crochet and do so many of the old things that aren't in vogue right now that
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] people just don't know how to do
[speaker001:] now did you say you could knit
[speaker002:] no um-hum haven't tried that either
[speaker001:] oh well I was gonna say because
[speaker002:] I wanna learn to crochet I
[speaker001:] because if you could knit you could crochet it's just like doing one handed as long as you learn how to
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] to to weave the the yarn in between your fingers on your left hand
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and then you just use your right hand with the hook
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and that's not it's really not too difficult you could learn that I'm sure and pick that up if you I think if you can do any handicraft you can learn to crochet it's not too difficult
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh-huh it's funny when you were talking about sewing I love to do anything by hand with a needle
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but I'm totally intimidated if I sit down at a sewing machine I never learned and I get real nervous whereas usually the other needlework stuff is relaxing to me but I just have a phobia about not being able to actually sew
[speaker001:] isn't that interesting I think that's really interesting
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] huh and yet you know I think about you know you said you do a lot of needlework and and there are some beautiful just gorgeous patterns
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that people do and I I just think that um that's one of one of the arts that I think are real pretty and a lot of people don't do that either
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know and so
[speaker002:] well it's hard to find the time I I wouldn't if I didn't have this car time ability probably because at night if I sit down I'm doing something with the kids or
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah
[speaker002:] just not sitting down at all
[speaker001:] yeah that's true you know and and I always think well I can do this while I watch TV or something you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and um it seems like I always get my mind carried away to something else and then it doesn't
[speaker002:] well and I'm at the age where bifocers or trifocals would be necessary and so I find myself putting glasses on to
[speaker001:] quite work or
[speaker002:] to watch TV and then taking them off to do needlework and I get frustrated doing that so just give it up
[speaker001:] yeah and you know I like to sketch I can I can sketch something like if I see a picture like out of a book I can sketch that
[speaker002:] ooh that does
[speaker001:] and that's nice and everything but you know it's funny I can't I can't draw it out of my own head kind of thing I wish I could and and yet I can't do you know like like uh craft uh on wood
[speaker002:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] I can't do that painting thing and yet
[speaker002:] yeah I'm the same way if I see something I can copy it but I certainly can't create I admire people that have that in their minds already
[speaker001:] yeah me too me too I know a woman who's just wonderful at that and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I look at it and you know you look at those things and you wish so badly that you could do them I guess if you wanted to you could take classes and learn I guess that's the only way I could do it
[speaker002:] well sometimes even with that yeah I I think you have to have some