A Profound Addiction

[kerravonsen]

I have just realized another reason why I have fallen so fast and so hard for crochet. Unlike most of my other crafts, I am enjoying the process just as much as the end result. There is something soothing and relaxing about the interaction of fingers, hook and yarn. One doesn't have to concentrate hard while doing it, one doesn't have to peer at tiny beads looking for the holes, or worry about not poking one's fingers with sharp pointed objects. Even Getting Things Wrong is less stressful with crochet, because it's quite easy to undo one's work back to before the mistake; no undoing of impossible knots, or dropping beads on the floor, or getting out the seam ripper. Just pull gently.

With beading, I do enjoy the designing part, but the stringing-the-beads-on is fussy.
With sewing... I hate the process of sewing. I love the end result, but the process is fiddly and time-consuming and tiring.
Macramé is nice, but crochet is nicer.

This makes me wonder whether I should just toss out my cloth stash and give away my sewing machine, but I balk at the idea.
Anybody got some good ideas about how to make sewing less fussy and more fun?

Comments

[afuna]

It's possible to use your cloth stash to line things, e.g., bags, scratchy hats -- but I don't know enough about sewing to say whether that would be better (because it's smaller compared to a full-sewing project?) or fiddlier (because it's smaller compared to a full-sewing project!).

Crochet and knitting to the exact same thing for me ♥ I love how, once you've started, you can drop them into a bag and then pick them up again any time, without having to set up tools, etc.

[kerravonsen]

It's possible to use your cloth stash to line things, e.g., bags, scratchy hats -- but I don't know enough about sewing to say whether that would be better (because it's smaller compared to a full-sewing project?) or fiddlier (because it's smaller compared to a full-sewing project!).

I'm not sure either! Presumably lining bags would require a cylindrical or rectangular pattern, depending on the shape of the bag in question. I'm not sure how to make such a pattern, though. So it would be fiddlier not because it was smaller, but because it's more difficult because I'd have to devise a new pattern for each new bag.

I love how, once you've started, you can drop them into a bag and then pick them up again any time, without having to set up tools, etc.

Exactly!
Though my fluffy wrap is getting a bit big to shove into a bag. It's living on the sofa at the moment, ready to take up the next time I'm watching a video.

[afuna]

So it would be fiddlier not because it was smaller, but because it's more difficult because I'd have to devise a new pattern for each new bag.


Ah, yeah I didn't even think of that! (Best wishes for your fabric stash no matter where it ends up *g*)