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I guess that programing a computer is fine and great but no one ever gets to see what you produce. A computer program is a fairly intangible thing really. Looking at one as a piece of art is impossible really. So over the years I have done quite a few different hand crafts to show that I do have a creative side. I doubt that I have ever thought of it strictly on those lines but it has the ring of truth about it.
I have knitted off and on for all my adult life. There has been the occasional disaster though. I was doing a jumper with a triangle pattern on it. The completed article had one small problem though. The sleeves were way too long. About 10-15 centimeters in fact. Suffice it to say I have not worn that one very much.
Another problem jumper was one that I spent the best part of two years creating. Not because it was hard, I simply put it down and forgot about it for a year. It was knitted on a round. Using a traditional Gansey patern. That is a fishermans style of jumper similar to Arran style but worked with a much finer wool. So I knitted and knitted. Then I finished it. Now the sleeves were the perfect length this time. The problem was the body length. It was way too short. Even if I lost loads of weight it would never fit me. So after over two years work I wore it once then gave it to my mother. She says that it is very warm.
A friend of mine introduced me to Cross Stich. This is done using Aieda fabric and cotton, silk, or even metal thread in a way similar to embroidery. Except that the stiches are all almost exactly the same. There is a half-stich used which is like X but you miss out one of the legs or arms of the X. My entheusiasm for this has waned a bit though. It is quite fiddly to do. You have to be able to concentrate on a fairly small piece of work for a fairly long time. And to be honest, doing such small work is hard.
Now I started doing a Ladybug but have not quite finished that yet. I took it to hotels and would sit and do cross stich whilst listening to the TV. I did OK with it but it is so slow compared with knitting that I have not done too much of it.