craft girlies

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I was at my grandmother's over the weekend. She's beyond herself with happiness that I've taken up crafty things like knitting and cross stitch etc. She can't do any crafting any more, unfortunately because she's 85 and her eyes are bad but every time I visit her she shows me things that she's made.
So this time she was showing me pattern books (in Romanian and German) for doing stuff like trims on sweaters or cross stitch stuff to make pillows and such. I think the patterns are really guides to embellishing the collars and cuffs of traditional costumes, but they're just patterns on a grid so they can be used for anything. She let me borrow one of the books, I'm going to try and make a cross stitch pillow with some of the patterns. It's pretty ambitious of me since I've never done a cross stitch that didn't have the design printed on the fabric already.
Anyway I thought I'd share some pics of patterns in case anyone out there was interested.