Heh. I'm all proud of myself for making Mr. H a scarf involving several kinds of stitches- I look at Susan's link, and I swear it's like someone said, "Ok, now that you can make cereal with milk, let's do crepes Florentine and eggs Benedict with fresh bread toast and gooseberry jam."

I prefer crocheting to knitting, knitting eventually hurts my shoulders.

My sister started knitting to have something to do with her hands when she was kid-minding (she's been a professional kid minder since having her own) that took thought but not too much attention and that she could stop whenever she needed to.

My husband will sometimes say "You could do that" when he sees a craft, but only because he thinks of me as, um, crafty.

I'm just a seriously non-crafty person.

Maybe if you took up a craft related to other interests, like forging swords.

I look at Susan's link, and I swear it's like someone said, "Ok, now that you can make cereal with milk, let's do crepes Florentine and eggs Benedict with fresh bread toast and gooseberry jam."

Totally. I figure if I started knitting today and kept up with it, I might be able to make that jumper by the time Annabel's hypothetical younger brother or sister is ready for it. And we're currently planning to wait three or four years before creating such a sibling, given my decidedly non-Prairie Muffin attitude toward my fertility.

I like knitting, but I haven't had the time to do any since I finished my first! ever!...the scarf for Kara.

Maybe if you took up a craft related to other interests, like forging swords.

Now, that would be cool. But I want to learn to fight with one first.

I'm such a tomboy for a romance writer and lapsed figure skater. I'm probably the only writer of Regency historicals on the planet who, if given a choice between my heroine's wardrobe and my hero's weaponry, would pick the gun without hesitation.

I would just bristle at my husband suggesting a hobby for me, particularly more than once.

That is almost as bad as someone saying "You're looking a little pudgy around middle. Maybe you should go to the gym."

I love cross-stitching. It goes slower than crocheting but you can make pretty pictures and frame them.

I like cross-stitch, but I always end up spending a lot of time getting blood out of the canvas. I'm much better off with blunt needles.

My husband has become obsessed with me learning to knit.

The actors playing Pompey (the pimp) and Mistress Overdone (the madam) in Measure For Measure are knitting a scarf and crocheting a blanket respectively. It's so very odd to come down into the green room during Act 4 and see them in their very modern, very out-there costumes & make-up, happily working with yarn. It's all so 21st-century domestic. I need to take pictures.

I'm much better off with blunt needles.

I like the sharp ones, especially with a small weave Aida and/or even-weave fabric. Finger pricks - ahh, good times.