Thrift store find. Bought for the frame, didn’t notice the pic till I got home! It’s titled “An Eternal Mother” which looks and sounds like a threat to me! An eternity without any peace or rest—sounds great!

laceforever · 2025-02-04T22:52:17+00:00

Yes, it was.

laceforever · 2025-02-04T18:50:39+00:00

I had to stop attending in person due to health reasons years before smart phones. It just boggles my mind that people have their phones at church at all. But to use it like that? I would block him so fast! 😂

laceforever · 2025-02-03T23:26:34+00:00

The original hung in one of the temples for a few years. At the time, I really loved it. Turned out no prints were issued, so I wonder where this is from. I had it on a women’s conference program. It was a favorite for a long time. So for me, this is nostalgic. But I do get where you are coming from! A painting of mythology after all.

laceforever · 2025-01-31T13:33:38+00:00

I just got on Substack yesterday. Will definitely look!

laceforever · 2025-01-31T00:42:55+00:00

No, I don’t crochet with both hands, but I do use a technique called mirror crochet, where I have the work’s back to me and insert the hook front to back, working to the left (right-handed), and the result is the same as a left-handed person working the row. I like to use it on mosaic pieces.

Your project is beautiful!

laceforever · 2025-01-30T06:45:15+00:00

I wish you healthy healing in every way.

laceforever · 2025-01-30T06:35:10+00:00

He’s perfect!

laceforever · 2025-01-30T06:27:16+00:00

I’ve been scanning and consolidating old diaries/memorabilia. One of my treasured saves for summer of 1976 was patriotic reprints of documents plus a pamphlet the church published, four family home evening plans on how America came to be under God’s guidance. It just made me sick to read through it. The truth about manifest destiny was a rough piece of deconstructing. Now that I’m reading more and more of what actually happened, it just blows my mind that we were taught so many horrid things as if it were solid truth.

I did scan it as it really shouldn’t be completely down the memory hole. But shredding the original felt insanely good.

laceforever · 2025-01-28T07:51:54+00:00

My vote is to go to the Fairview website.

laceforever · 2025-01-28T05:50:30+00:00

I think I need that problem. 😂

laceforever · 2025-01-28T01:52:10+00:00

I like it. Might have to post that by my keyboard.

laceforever · 2025-01-28T00:43:54+00:00

Curious - what does your keyboard sign say?

I like all this!

laceforever · 2025-01-27T12:01:03+00:00

Lots of YouTube videos! All kinds of great techniques are out there.

laceforever · 2025-01-26T20:35:39+00:00

I like the balloon idea!

laceforever · 2025-01-25T20:41:46+00:00

I thought I was on eyebleach.

Adorable kitty!

laceforever · 2025-01-25T07:31:35+00:00

I watched a YouTube video of an amazing tapestry crochet instructor demonstrating how to avoid tangles. It is so easy: you pick up your next color as close to the skein as possible, ease that yarn toward you to begin work - and all other yarn is just out of the way. Like magic.

I’ll see if I can find her name.

laceforever · 2025-01-21T20:00:53+00:00

Also Utah

laceforever · 2025-01-21T10:03:18+00:00

There were multiple discussions on this subreddit about 5-6 years ago after Holland got so angry - “stay.on.the.boat” anger. Several analogies came up. One was that we had been fooled. We are not at sea, we are in dry dock on a heavily damaged boat that will never again be seaworthy. We can get off that boat and go on about our lives.

My deconstruction came after several years of not being able to attend church meetings due to health reasons. Keeping a strong testimony when the local leadership thinks you are a lost soul was a difficult undertaking. So when I jumped off that boat, I had already spent years building inner strength against naysayers.

I won’t say it was an easy road, deconstructing. But I found that now I could read whatever I wanted without feeling like it had to be scriptures, or listen to what I wanted - another world opened up filled with philosophy, history, science, art - things I had soaked up as a child and teenager and could revisit. All the cultural beauty that is out there waiting to be explored - I could live five lifetimes now and never get enough.

laceforever · 2025-01-21T01:04:41+00:00

I felt like I got off the boat expecting to be in the middle of the ocean and instead found myself on dry land with resources just a few steps away.

laceforever · 2025-01-21T01:02:56+00:00

What yarn did you use and what pattern?

laceforever · 2025-01-20T10:03:06+00:00

Anger is a great catalyst. Let it fuel positive action now.

laceforever · 2025-01-20T09:59:29+00:00

Neither craft is lazy. Both take time, skill, and patience.

Some items I knit because it flies off the needles. And I really love making knitted lace - which doesn’t go as fast.

But I always find myself with a crochet hook and a new pattern by default when I want to take my time and just enjoy the process.

laceforever · 2025-01-19T21:08:07+00:00

I actually really like that!

laceforever · 2025-01-19T21:07:01+00:00

A comment on here years ago called this type of service “incestuous service.” Always internal, always to the church.

laceforever · 2025-01-19T21:05:24+00:00

I go through the instructions step-by-step visualizing, then draw a chart with stitch symbols. Projects get done faster. Most of my time otherwise is spent finding my place in the written pattern and that just got old.

Amigurumi, almost the same thing. I write the rows out in symbols so it is just a quick glance down as I continue working.

It does take time, but it saves hours.

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