SHOWER CURTAIN RODS : ... and found a pile of crewel embroideries I'd done when I was in mylate teens and early twenties!I'd completely forgotten ever doing them, but there they were: a horse'shead worked on linen (and framed completely in book-covering plastic!)and a scene depicting Australian Fairy Wrens on a stalk of Cumbungi andanother showing Eastern Yellow Robins in a Grevillea bush and one ofkittens (IAP!) and another of puppies (equally IAP!). They were allancient Semco kits, which I'd purchased for the princely sum of $5AUSall those years ago. The same kits would probably bring closer to $30AUStoday!The thing I noticed most particularly was that my stitching wasn't allthat bad! Most of the work was done in long and short stitch (I *hate*l&s stitch) or split stitch (I also hate s'stitch) with the odd bits ofstem stitch for outlining and - well - stems. The horse was a bit luridin shades of burnt sienna (very sixties) and beige, but the birdie oneswere quite nice. I might give 'em a wash and see how they come up.
SHOWER CURTAIN RODS : One of these days, I'm going to go rummaging in the shed again and findall the zillions of macrame plant hangers and wall-hangings I made whenI was in my macrame phase! Eeeeuuuwwwww! There's an enormouswall-hanging in there somewhere which was made out of thick olive-greenjute twine with gigantic (ie golf-ball-sized) lacquered wooden beads forembellishment. It was a sort of sampler of the ways in which you couldbuild up textured 'fabric' using macrame knots. At a rough size of fourfoot by four foot, it was an utter *apostasy*.Oh, and there's the hanger that used to hold a pink-and-green-leavedcoleus in Mum's bathroom. It was lolly pink and consisted of a bazillionshort bits of acrylic yarn tied onto a wire basket and then *fluffed up*with a brush. It looked like nothing more than a gigantic pink powderpuff with a triffid issuing forth from the top! LOL! Dad used to call it'Athenasius' after a particularly red-faced nun who taught him in fifthclass and I do believe he would empty the contents of his shaving muginto it from time to time. Eventually, the coleus passed away, but thehanger, being acrylic, will never die and is still buried in our shedsomewhere...
SHOWER CURTAIN RODS : I was also subject to making many, many owlish flavoured wall-hangings.I would construct these out of various shades of brown and grey twinehanging from artfully gnarled tree branches and use wooden 'O' rings anduncannily eerie yellow plastic eyeballs purchased from the craft shoppeto lend authenticity to the owlish stare. Nearly all of them werepresented as gifts to Mum, who would promptly give them back to me,saying 'Oh, Patricia, you *love* owls! Find somewhere nice (and,presumably, out of the way) to hang it for me, won't you?' All these arein the shed, along with the fluffy yellow lion and the rather apoplecticgreen frog.Did anyone else get sucked into macrame during the sixties andseventies, or was it just me?Did anyone else *keep* all their macramatising efforts, or was it justme?
SHOWER CURTAIN RODS : Could anyone else pick it up again tomorrow without missing a beat? I*think* I could, but I can't remember how to turks' heads knots for thelife of me! LOL!-- Trish {|:-}Newcastle, NSW, AustraliaTrish, What a wonderful treasure hunt! I do remember doing some macramé,but I don't think I have any pieces laying around any more and I seriouslydoubt I could pick it up again without the aid of a good book. It was funat the time, though, wasn't it. Your stitcheries sound wonderful.hahaha!!!!! my mum, although in her 50's, decided about 5 or 6 years ago tomake some macrame hanging baskets!!!she managed to rope me into it (i was 15 or 16 at the time) for all of about5 minutes... after i saw the atrocity she was trying to make, i quicklyheaded out the house!!!============================war doesn't determine who is rightwar determines who is left.============================
SHOWER CURTAIN RODS : In our family, you cannot say "Macrame" without people ROFLTAO. A craftyneighbor got me into it, and when my cousin came to stay for the summer, hethought this was a sufficiently masculine craft and asked me to teach him. Hewanted to make a huge plant hanger, so we determined the correct length to cutthe cords and proceeded to cut a few dozen at once by looping the cord betweentwo doorknobs an appropriate distance apart. I then showed him how to make afigure-8 bobbin, and while he was winding, I was going to read to him from thebook about how to work with this stuff.He discovered that the dozens of cords we'd cut were snarled together, just atthe point that I reached the warning in the book that "long cords havea tendency to tangle " For the rest of the summer, we couldbreak each other up with only the phrase "long cords...."
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