Elegant Hardanger Embroidery<\/a>, they were familiar with the sheer fabric project in that book already, and loved the idea of a whole book about it.<\/p>\nI said that I had not really got back to the book as I wondered whether no-one other than me would be stupid enough to try such a difficult technique – it is hard to see through the overlay fabric to the evenweave underneath, making it quite a painstaking thing to do, though extremely lovely in appearance.<\/p>\n
We moved on in the conversation, but later, one of the ladies brought me back to what I had said about others not wanting to do it. She said that while she might never be accomplished enough to do it herself, to her it would be a the type of thing that she would find inspiring to look at, even if she was never able to do it. She encouraged me that others need something to aspire to, even if to them it feels like “the impossible dream”.<\/p>\n
She said that without something like that, that seems way beyond one’s own abilities, you never have something to reach for and to try harder for.<\/p>\n
I thanked her for her ideas. It was really interesting to hear her thoughts.<\/p>\n
It reminds me of a lovely lady who was browsing my stand at the craft show. We’d had a bit of a conversation and off she went. A second later she was back to say that she really wanted to say thank you to me for all the pleasure and enjoyment that I had given so many people with my books. I was completely touched by her words, and that she’d actually shared them with me. Being thankful is one thing, but these days I find that actually expressing that thanks is much rarer.<\/p>\n
So, do you enjoy books as much for the inspiration they provide as for the things you can learn from them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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