well if you're from Iowa you must be very artsy-craftsy everyone i've ever known from the Midwest can do everything with their hands
okay
oh well actually i'm from California and before then i was from Utah so
i didn't know anyone ever moved from California to Kansas Iowa
well i grew up in California and then i went to school in Utah and i got married there and we stayed there for a while and then now we're in Utah Iowa
i'm teasing only because i'm from Indiana i really liked i like the Midwest
oh really
oh
but i married a Texan and they have a way of dragging you back home
anyway we're supposed to be talking about crafts do you um do you have any hobbies that that you do things with your hands like knitting or
um
well i crochet and i do water color and i um sew and i do fabric painting
oh you do a lot then do you do needlepoint also and cross stitching
um i've done some cross stitching
i haven't tried any needlepoint yet how about you
um actually i i'm pretty untalented i used to do a lot of knitting and crocheting um
oh right
but i i don't know somehow i i don't have the time anymore
but i have all these friends that wherever you go they they sit down and the next thing you know they pull out of their um bags some their most recent uh needle craft
oh really
and in December everyone was doing stockings you know these gorgeous detailed minute tiny stitch stockings
uh-huh
oh God
oh yeah well those take a lot of time i only can do things that are pretty fast because
yes
we just um got our baby last year and i just
don't have the patience to just you know be some uh-huh
is this your first baby have you crocheted or knitted any baby clothes or baby blankets
um
i crocheted an afghan for our bed that's the only thing and and i did a quilt let's see i've done a quilt for our baby and i've done a quilt for our bed but i mean
did you embroidery the pattern and then quilt it yourself or
um
how how did you make a quilt
um our baby's quilt it was a pre
like the design i just went around the design in the quilt i didn't piece it or anything like that
uh-huh
but uh
but you actually hand quilted it yourself
uh-huh and just
did did you need a loom or were you able was it small enough that you could just hold it
um
i put it on the frame the quilting frame
have you are you familiar with that yeah okay
uh-huh
but um
my again my mother back in Indiana we had a quilting frame in our basement and she would she would quilt whole quilts by herself
oh my God
um yes which i was always amazed i have one of them um but uh you know to have the quilting frame and then to actually do that it's a tremendous amount of work
well i haven't done tons of them
but um i used to do more before um
before i had before we got our baby but
have you think children you can um use crafts to make wonderful things for children
uh-huh
i think when babies i think afghans and and the crocheted little sweaters and
are are wonderful and and they'll wear them once they get old enough to talk then they no longer will wear your
yeah exactly
well one thing that i like about this fabric painting thing is i can just
make a T-shirt and put a little ruffle around it and then um cut out a little pattern from the material from some material like flowers or something and make
um a design or you know a little arrangement or something on the shirt and you know fuse it on with
Heat and Bond or whatever and then paint around it and i usually sew sew around the flower whatever first
and then i paint around it so you can't see the stitching as much
does does that make sense to you
oh yes i think it's very clever it's uh funny that you said for Christmas my daughter and i received matching sweat shirts that a friend had made for ours a beautiful Christmas design and they were matching and they were lovely
so
oh
but when i washed them although i took the precaution of turning them inside out i really didn't do anything else and truly everything fell off or most of it so i had i went and bought just some
oh sure uh-huh
oh really
cloth glue and glued it all back and i bought the paint and redid most of the edges and and it was salvageable and i
oh
but it's so i'm familiar with that but i think you're very clever to um sew around the edges i think gluing alone
certainly if you wash it any amount of time it tends to kind of come loose at the edges
well
yeah someone told me that that it that they had done it both ways and i've always after hearing that i always sewed it on even
even with the uh a loose zigzag even helps
and um
