Knit one, pearl two . .
"Picture the life of a trucker and you might see hookers, meth, and rebel flag decals . . "
In Slow Economy, Truck Drivers Find Solace in Quilting - sewing - Gawker "Oh, there's many a time you're just going down the road at O-dark-thirty in the morning and you just start thinking about a particular pattern." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...GHTTopCarousel The Wall Street Journal article gives a much more thorough account of this phenomenon. |
i just learned to knit this past february. a friend of mine taught me how. i had been looking for a new scarf. then i figured, how hard could it be to just do it myself? it is quite relaxing. :thumbsup:
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Here's my sewing machine. It has one of those round wooden covers with a handle, so this is portable. It's old, but one of the best made in a non-commercial machine, that sews leather. I'll make Shania a sexy primitive loincloth buckskin bikini with matching knife sheath for free, if she'll drop the restraining order on me. |
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My mom had a machine just like that! |
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I really need help enticing my Ottawa Princess to finally realize I am her soul mate. :love: Besides, I'm not really focused on Anne Hathaway right now.... for those of you utterly riveted with this fascinating series of events. |
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I dunno man. I've never really been big on that whole "After-life" deal. But...you could hold a seance over in Montana and find out! She be dead, low these many years!! Me mom that is. :lol: |
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Latest endeavor in that respect is "Cro-Knitting". Two double ended hooks. And, as far as the quilting, what's your favorite pattern... Log cabin? Bear paw? I've got one I call "TITLE FIGHT". Now, the wife does them all by hand on a quilting frame that would not fit in the cab of a truck. You'd need half of the length of the trailer. (Well, maybe not quite) I use a machine and a hoop to stitch mine. She says that cheating, but I get done with 3 to her one. When I was in the truck, I was making scarves for sale. Didn't sell many at truck stops, but at consignment stores, they were big sellers. Want a challenge? Try knitting with silk thread. Or do a waistband with mono-film, stretch polymar and add beads to it. You know, where you string a couple of hundred beads on it, then go to work. Slip a bead into each stitch. A 2" waistband looks pretty sharp. Wife put it on her sewing dummy and added a skirt to it. |
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i learned the basics, which is enough for now. i am still working on my scarf, first project. then my daughter wants a scarf too and a friend wants one for christmas. i will make an attempt at a matching hat for my daughter when i am done with her scarf. i have read that silk and cotton are hard to knit with. i have the book "knitting for dummies" for mistakes and how to fix them. knitting with the round needles will be my next challenge when i make the hat. :) i have tried quilting. i made a qulit, sewed everything by hand. i mean needle and thread, mind you it took me 7 years to make it. i finally finished when the doc put me on bed rest with one of my pregnancies. i will make a memory quilt. i am going to cut the designs of the kids old t-shirts and put that together, the ones that are my favorites. a simple block pattern should suffice. |
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AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A TRUCKER!!!! I wouldn't be cought dead knitting or cro-whatever! Real men do beading!! |
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