The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater_Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun

Author:Alanna Okun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing, Biography
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2018-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

Words They Need to Invent for Crafters

1.  The paralysis that kicks in when you have such beautiful yarn or fabric that you’re scared to start making something, because what if you can’t do it justice?

2.  The proud but irritating moment when a project becomes too big/heavy/precious to take anywhere, and so the only place you can work on it is at home.

3.  When you make a “typo” in an embroidery and only realize once it’s too late.

4.  The blood-boiling rage of reaching an especially fiddly part of a project and then the phone rings or somebody starts to talk to you.

5.  The blood-boiling rage of someone you don’t know or like very well asking, however jokingly, if you will make them something.

6.  The blood-boiling rage of being told that crafters are supposed to be a calm bunch and therefore should not experience blood-boiling rage.

7.  That tiny little mistake you know that nobody else will ever notice but that you can’t look away from.

8.  The suffocating silence at the end of the podcast or audiobook you were crafting alongside for hours or weeks.

9.  When you lose a sewing needle in your bed and can’t find it, but you know it’s there, lurking, waiting to stab you when you least expect it.

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