Gettin’ crafty old school style
So I’m really starting to get into the whole crafting thing. No, not knit covered styrofoam snowmen or beer can art (although those crafts do have their place in the craft-o-sphere). I’m talking about this emerging, sort of indie/hip/alternative, craft culture that seems to be popping up all over the place. I’m loving it big time….except for one little, tiny, itsy bitsy thing (it’s always that way with me, isn’t it?). I’m not quite understanding how vintage is always so cool and desirable, but I keep seeing phrases like “not your gramma’s yarn shop,” or not “your granny’s embroidery.” Huh? WTF is the difference? At first this was sort of an irritant…something I couldn’t quite define why I was bugged. Then, I listened to Brenda Dayne’s Cast-On Episode 30: In search of our grandmother’s rocking chairs. Penny’s essay really articulated some of those free floating thoughts I had on this issue.
Now, please keep in mind that I don’t really come from a line of crafty women. My mom and my grandma are pretty good cooks and my grandma is an awesome artist, but what they did pass down to me was invaluable and core to my being. They both infused in me the proud appreciation for my feminist fore-mothers, as well as a deep thanfulness for choices in life that I am able to make every day. I guess I’m just one of those people that tries to embrace my past and my history in order to understand who I am today. Ok, so I don’t really embrace some of the bad fashion choices or hair cuts I’ve had, but you get the point, right? I’m okay with me…now.
Anyway, if this post actually has a point I guess it is this: I dig the new stuff and I dig the old stuff…it’s all cool to me.
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