Handmade is fast leaving from us. I've mentioned this in an earlier blog. It is so important to me that I made it August's idea in my monthly Year of Living Graciously list.
Teach someone the art of hand sewing, knitting, crocheting, any kind of fancy work, before these skills are gone forever.
Yes, new mothers still want handmade baby blankets, but they want YOU or GRAMMY to make them, not learn how themselves!
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August 1, 2011
July 17, 2011
Lost Art
Whilst walking about Wally-World the other day, I inquired of a young lady, mayhap two and twenty years old, "Where might the cross stitch supplies be? The floss, in particular."
Her reply? "I don't know what you're talking about. Do you mean yarn? My great grandmother used to use metal sticks and make sweaters with string or yarn or something. The only floss I know about is dental floss. If we have any of that, it's probably over there," and she pointed toward the toothpaste aisle.
Oh my, oh my, my. Dear ladies and gents. So much has gone by the wayside- crank telephones, typewriters, black and white TVs. Let not the art of cross stitch join that group. Please, please, in the name of all that is handcrafted, if you know how or know of someone who knows how to cross stitch, crewel, heirloom handstitch, candlewick, knit, hook, tat, quilt or sew, please, please, teach another. Keep these leisurely arts alive in this day of instant everything.
Her reply? "I don't know what you're talking about. Do you mean yarn? My great grandmother used to use metal sticks and make sweaters with string or yarn or something. The only floss I know about is dental floss. If we have any of that, it's probably over there," and she pointed toward the toothpaste aisle.
Oh my, oh my, my. Dear ladies and gents. So much has gone by the wayside- crank telephones, typewriters, black and white TVs. Let not the art of cross stitch join that group. Please, please, in the name of all that is handcrafted, if you know how or know of someone who knows how to cross stitch, crewel, heirloom handstitch, candlewick, knit, hook, tat, quilt or sew, please, please, teach another. Keep these leisurely arts alive in this day of instant everything.
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