[speaker001:] Okay, well, some of the things I like to do are, I like to knit. I knit sometimes, and I sew
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and, uh, I like to sew sometimes for my kids. I, I sew clothes for them every once in a while.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] [Lipsmack] And I make quilts.
[speaker002:] 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. I was thinking maybe need to learn to quilt.
[speaker001:] After a while, cross stitch, I th-, I [LAUGHTER] don't know. I have
[speaker002:] It gets boring.
[speaker001:] to put it away and then I have to bring it back.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] You know. And, and, uh, I don't know why that is. I don't know if it's looking at the little th-, [LAUGHTER] things every time.
[speaker002:] Well, it reaches a point where it doesn't seem to be very challenging, I think.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that might be it.
[speaker002:] But I do
[speaker001:] That might [faint], and yet, there's,
[speaker002:] a lot of it in the car. We,
[speaker001:] Oh, do you?
[speaker002:] Yeah, we commute from Plano to Dallas
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] so I have nearly an hour both ways that I can really get a lot of work done and
[speaker001:] Oh, I bet.
[speaker002:] I found that cross stitch is the easiest to do in the car.
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] do any kind of quilting work?
[speaker001:] Yeah. Uh, I've not really done any, too much challenging, uh, stuff. I, I can do it with a, a needle and thread
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know, but, uh, and get about five small stitches in, which is pretty good, but it's very long.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] It's very tedious if you don't have a whole group, you're not finishing a quilt in a long time [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Oh, I bet.
[speaker001:] So, uh,
[speaker002:] But, it's such a lost art.
[speaker001:] So, uh, I like to just mostly do the tie quilts.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] That's so much easier.
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] But, uh, the other ones are very pretty. They're, uh, we have a quilt on our bed that's, instead of, like, yarn
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] they tied, uh, ribbon into it.
[speaker002:] [Lipsmack] Oh.
[speaker001:] And it's real pretty.
[speaker002:] I bet.
[speaker001:] It's real pretty.
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] Oh, wow.
[speaker002:] looking thing. And when I look at it now, she's been dead for a long time
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] I think oh, why didn't I learn these crafts and skills from her because she could crochet and
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] do so many of the old things that aren't in vogue right now that people just don't know how to do.
[speaker001:] Now did you say you could knit?
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. Haven't tried that either.
[speaker001:] Well, I was going to say because,
[speaker002:] I want to learn to crochet. I,
[speaker001:] Because if you could knit, you could crochet.
[speaker002:] Really?
[speaker001:] It's just like doing one handed as long as you learn how to, to weave the, the yarn in between your fingers on your left hand.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And then you just use your right hand with the hook.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And that's not, it's really not too difficult. You could learn that, I'm sure
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and pick that up.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] If you, I think if you can do any handicraft, you can learn to crochet.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] It's not too difficult.
[speaker002:] It's funny, when you were talking about sewing, I love to do anything by hand with a needle.
[speaker001:] Yeah [faint].
[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.
[speaker001:] Isn't that interesting.
[speaker002:] But I just have a phobia about not being able to actually sew.
[speaker001:] I think that's really interesting.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[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:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] that people do. And I, I just think that, uh, that's one of, one of the arts that I think are really pretty. And a lot of people don't do that either.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[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
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] because at night if I sit down, I'm doing something with the kids or
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] just not sitting down at all [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] That's true. You know, and, and I always think, well, I can do this and watch T V or something
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] you know. And, uh, it seems like I always get my mind carried away to something else and then it doesn't
[speaker002:] Well, it,
[speaker001:] quite work or,
[speaker002:] I'm at the age where bifocals or trifocals would be necessary. It's so I find myself putting glasses on to, to watch T V and then taking them off to do needlework and I get frustrated doing that so [LAUGHTER]. Just give it up.
[speaker001:] 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.
[speaker001:] and that's nice and everything, but, you know, it's funny, I can't [LAUGHTER], I can't draw it out of my own head
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] kind of thing. I wish I could. And, and yet I can't do, you know, like, like, uh, craft, uh, on wood.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I can't do that painting thing.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] And yet,
[speaker002:] 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.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[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. I, I think you have to have some,