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Maybe getting off work and sitting in front of a different computer and scrolling mindlessly is the same as when our parents (mine, anyway) came home from work and sat and stared mindlessly at a bunch of nothing and empty noise on the TV. But if it isn't it worries me and makes me think my brain has broken and I can't pay attention to anything any more, and so I decided to start crocheting and to make myself learn to knit.
I don't enjoy either one of these things. I think I particularly don't like crochet, for a number of reasons, but I am sure I can learn to particularly not like knitting, too, if I ever get started with it.
A few years ago I did some needlefelting for somewhat different reasons and quickly discovered that the problem with making things is that you end up with piles of things taking up space unless you can find a way to get rid of them, and not that many people really need cute little needlefelted owls or frogs and I maybe can't bear to let them go very much. (Add making a needlefelted frog to the list of things I want to do to prove I can still *do* something, but that has to come after finishing the needlefelted comics character that I started and left to sit when I didn't know what I would do with it).
I had hoped I would find these things meditative and that they would quiet me and help me sleep at night, but they just bore me. I have found them all much less appealing than sitting in front of the computer scrolling mindlessly.
And it's worse when I have a few days off in a row and start to feel human again and think of things I can do and want to do and maybe even start planning, and then I go back to work and in 24 to 36 hours I am back to a mindless scrolling blob of tired.
I am now about halfway through crocheting a very vivid ugly hat.
Hobbled
reddit is dark and I need to find something else to do. I should find something else to do even if/when it comes back.
During these difficult times, should I:
A. needlefelt a frog (I have successfully needlefelted before but then need to dispose of the creations acceptably)
B. try to crochet a teddy bear (which will, at best, result in a half-finished vaguely teddy bear shaped object to go beside the 7/8 finished hat on my desk)
or c. try to teach myself to knit?
I should additionally clarify that c. results in at most two to four clumsily knitted rows left sitting on my desk for at least eight months for the cat to get tangled in when she climbs up to look out the window. Note that the previous hat was abandoned with some relief after getting repeatedly picked and pulled by cat claws through the same process.
There is an already discarded option d, which is try to teach myself to play mountain dulcimer, but I can hear myself being bad at that and already know I get too disgusted with it and self-conscious after three minutes.
Needle Felted Pairs
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Stabbing my poor little #felt #ball hehehe #needlefelting #coin #purse
Feeling under the weather this weekend so I return to an old project. My maiko felt doll. Tried using yarn for the hair but it just didn't look right so time for a bit of needle felting. I like the look and the texture more but the roving gets everywhere. More heads are required. #needlefelting #feltdolls #maiko #dollsize #dollmaking https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Qf7Ivgfcd/?igshid=12f1aekxr1lbi
Zombie maiko now has a kimono on. Sewing a felt kimono is tricky especially when it is thus small. #toy #feltart #felttoy #plushie #plushiesofinstagram #plushies #handmadecrafts #maiko #needlefelting https://www.instagram.com/p/B5xRvrGgkFt/?igshid=g3cx4egyvkfm
Second felt doll using thinner felt. Kimono looks a lot nicer and this time I have added a fake collar so it looks like she is wearing a juban. Also this zombie maiko has the split peach hairstyle and an otaiko musubi. She is tiny so she isn't a scary zombie. Would you like to see more felt dolls? #plushie #plushiesofinstagram #plush #plushies #feltcute #feltart #feltdolls #felttoy #toydolls #needlefelting #maikotoy #cuddletoy #plushiecommunity #plushtoys https://www.instagram.com/p/B50eV_2A0lh/?igshid=xotd8errpe3t
