cross-stitchey musings

[deird_lj]

I really don't know why I like cross-stitch so much. As best, it's a sophisticated form of colour-by-numbers. I mean, I didn't CREATE the design. All I do is look at a diagram that tells me which coloured threads to put through which holes. And it takes me months, when it would take a machine maybe an hour. So why do it?
I guess there are a few reasons.
Firstly, it's elegant, and ladylike, and makes me feel like I'm sitting in a Georgian manor. I love that.
Secondly, I am incapable of sitting still. You can guarantee I'm going to be doing SOMETHING. Right now, if it wasn't cross-stitch, it would be websudoku. And, really, putting little numbers into boxes to create something that the computer deletes as soon as I finish it is a lot more pointless.
But mainly, because it's something physical. Something practical. You see, I'm not very good at making stuff. I'm a complete klutz, and any arty-farty stuff inevitably ends in a glue-ridden disaster zone. Except when I do this. When I cross-stitch, I get it right. I do it well. And I end up with proof.

Comments

[taiba.livejournal.com]

You could always use colour pencil do draw a design on the fabric, and then stitch in the appropriate colour cotton :-)

[twilight-dew.livejournal.com]

I love cross-stitch too! :D