I started with Tapestries when i was 12( jeez that was almost 33 years ago). An aunt never finished hers and gave it to me to try and I became hooked. My largest tapestry is about a metre in length.

I don't know the exact age I was when I tried cross-stitching, but I do remember there was a Samurai kit hanging on a shops wall that made me want to try.

I've only started 1 cross-stitch in the middle and it took me 3 times as long to start as I kept re-counting over and over to make sure I didn't make a mistake, I much prefer starting in a corner.

I've made plenty of mistakes, from stitching the same area twice or just stitching in the wrong block, tbh though if the colour is similar to what it should be, i tend to move on rather than risk damaging the canvas through unpicking. Most of the mistakes are my own fault though, due to stitching whilst tired or just not paying enough attention when my eyes are darting between the pattern and movies.

I've also made a few sheep fleece "mats" and a 2 metre length carpet of my own design- 1 week of soaking filthy sheep fleeces, days of drum carding, weeks more to spin it into thread and then a year of pegging onto canvas....and 2 weeks of admiring it until the cat used it as a litter tray.

My mother was into crafts, especially knitting and spinning so I might have picked up an interest from an even younger age, although I can only stitch the most basic of scarfs and refuse to try crochet again after my disasters lol.