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In your opinion.  Frankly, a blank piece of linen and a chart of several pages, threads of more than a hundred collars and a year or two worth of stitching ahead of you can be quite exciting as you see it begin to unfold, knowing that this will be passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom.
 
What bores one person can entice another and vice versa.

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ORIGINAL: aeaa

Greetings lucia,
 
aea is over 40.  *winks*
 
she remembers the first thing she made was a rug for her parent's home and she was in her early 20's when she did it.  The inspiration was simply seeing the mat hanging in a yarn store and liking it.  aea's Mom didn't drive so aea would often drive her to the yarn store to get yarn.  aea's mother was an avid crochet-er but that never much interested aea back then. aea bought the yarn and latched the rug.  Later, she made a bunch of pillows with latch hook as gifts. For awhile she gave up crafts.
 
After aea's Mom passed away, aea was married and her husband was working nights. aea was bored and depressed and found herself crying way too often. One night as she was walking through an old fashioned five-and-dime store, aea found a small counted cross-stitch kit.  she bought it and stayed up night until it was complete. And the rest, as they say, is history!
 
aea has pretty much taught herself with the help of instructions with kits and online how to do those crafts she does do.  The sewing goes back to memories of junior high school.
 
aea isn't sure that school age girls are interested in crafts. aea sure wasn't.  she thinks it is something that strikes us when we begin to reach a more "domesticated" age! she could, naturally, be wrong!
 
aea wishes you well!