Traditional Women's Crafts

**Kazimiera** · 03-26-2012, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by PetiteParisienne

I've been crocheting slippers the past couple of days. The pattern I'm using is a Romanian one that my grandmother taught me. I'll post pics when they're done.

Are they done yet? I'd love to see!

**PetiteParisienne** · 03-26-2012, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Loony

Are they done yet? I'd love to see!

Nearly! One is finished, and the second just needs to be stitched together.

**Kazimiera** · 03-27-2012, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by PetiteParisienne

Nearly! One is finished, and the second just needs to be stitched together.

Please post a picture when you are done! My mom is a bedsock enthusiast! I don't even know how many of them I have already but come winter I'll find another pair or two on my bed!

I'm an embroidery enthusiast and am currently working on a huge piece (81000 stitches) for over a year already and am nearly done. It's an art noveau painting by Alphonse Mucha called Joan of Arc.

**PetiteParisienne** · 03-27-2012, 10:18 AM

Amazing! I LOVE Art Nouveau.

Originally Posted by Loony

Please post a picture when you are done! My mom is a bedsock enthusiast! I don't even know how many of them I have already but come winter I'll find another pair or two on my bed!

I'm an embroidery enthusiast and am currently working on a huge piece (81000 stitches) for over a year already and am nearly done. It's an art noveau painting by Alphonse Mucha called Joan of Arc.

**PetiteParisienne** · 07-02-2012, 08:10 PM

I ran out of yarn for those slippers, and the company from which I order discontinued it! So I've moved on to other projects. Here's a little bag that I finished today. The maple leaf on it is a button.

**PetiteParisienne** · 07-31-2012, 09:06 PM

Here are some shots of a lace collar that I made as a commission.

The button looks like a chocolate-dipped strawberry.

**~~Dacul~~** · 07-31-2012, 09:38 PM

Nice crocheting.
Hope I used the right term in english.

**PetiteParisienne** · 07-31-2012, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by romanul

Nice crocheting.
Hope I used the right term in english.

Yes, that's correct.

Thank you!

**~~Frigga~~** · 08-06-2012, 03:19 AM

It's lovely!

Are you going to block it? I have never blocked any of my pieces, I've always been too lazy.

Personally though, I've never seen the why of lace collars like that. They're beautiful, but I guess that it's just not something that I would wear myself.

Great job PetiteParisienne.

**Barreldriver** · 08-06-2012, 03:47 AM

Originally Posted by PetiteParisienne

Traditional women's crafts such as sewing, knitting, cooking/baking, and gardening are definitely becoming lost to most of the world. I come from a long line of seamstresses, so my sister and I were taught these things growing up. It always makes me a bit sad when my female friends aren't comfortable in the kitchen, or haven't ever touched a crochet hook or knitting needles.

Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but does anyone else feel similarly?

Traditional woman's crafts? I'll have ye know that my male forefathers who lived a frontier life in Appalachia afore we obtained our larger land holdings and served the Confederate Army, these men who knew how to cook, sew, and plant seeds, were no women. Tasks as these ought to not be so restricted to one gender or another.

Hell I even cook because I want to eat 'n I would cook for my female companion as I'd like to eat with her. Simple as that, I still have balls and a penis 'n I wouldn't demand that she cook as some duty to me, of course I'd eat if it was voluntarily made but ought to not insinuate that it is her obligation to do as such. Ain't got no want fer a Jemima, I ain't from South Carolina.