Incoherent Scribblings

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Kathryn and is:

Are there other crafts that you have tried and abandoned? Why do you like stitching better?

Although I haven’t technically abandoned it, the craft that came to mind when I read this question was knitting. I taught myself the basics of knitting a couple of years ago but never got past some dishcloths.

I actually enjoyed learning how to knit and one of my current colleagues has even invited me to her knitting group and offered to teach me some more advanced techniques, but I have yet to take her up on her offer.

I suppose the reason I prefer to stitch is simply because I am not as good at knitting as I am stitching and when I have time to spend crafting I would rather do something I am good at. Yes, I know that I will never become a proficient knitter unless I practice, but I just don’t want to put forth the effort.

In addition to that, I also don’t knit because I don’t have any knitting stash. Sure it is a flimsy excuse because I could always buy some yarn and needles, but that fact is when I have money to spend on crafts I would much rather buy cross stitch charts, embroidery floss, and hand-dyed fabrics!

For my PIF, I will stitch (and finish) a “needleworks small” by March 1, 2009 for the first five people to leave a comment in this post.

Technically, the idea behind a “pay it forward” is that whoever signs up should also commit to doing something for X number of people. While I encourage this, it is not a requirement of my PIF that you must do so.

Sign-ups will be open for two weeks and I will contact those who sign-up via email within 48 hours to get mailing addresses, so make sure you leave a valid email in the comments box.

If I haven’t had five people sign up in those two weeks, I will stitch for however many have signed up.

Let the sign-ups begin!

Update: Wow! What an awesome response! I haven’t even had the announcement up for 48 hours and I already have 5 participants so sign-ups are closed. Thanks for signing up ladies. I will be emailing you shortly for your mailing addresses.

Well, not only did I finish my ten-hour rotation on “Spring Queen” last night, my new camera arrived in the mail yesterday so I was able to take a decent picture of my progress. I would like to keep working on Queenie until I finish the rest of her chest, but since that is the way that I get off track with my rotation I won’t. Instead I will put her away and move on the next piece, which is… (drumroll please)

“Above the Clouds!”

Yes, the illustrious Confetti is next in my rotation. As I have stated the past three times that it has come up in my rotation, I would love to work on “Above the Clouds” until it is finished, but as most of you know I have nearly burned out with it and demoted it to a UFO each of those times. Therefore, this time all I want to do is to stitch on it for ten more hours.

However, since I keep putting it off, it is very likely that I will start the first in the series of Christmas ornaments that I want to do for my family instead.

In other news, since I stopped doing exchanges I have considered doing a PIF a couple of times as a way to continue to stitch small gifties for my fellow stitchers. Obviously I have never gotten around to doing so, but yesterday when I signed up to be PIF recipient at Cross Stitch Happy I decided the time had come to officially commit myself to it. Details concerning my PIF will come shortly in a sticky post…