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I've just started stitching in public, and I'm adjusting to it.
www.flickr.com/photos/mrxstitch/3367690680/
I'll drop you a line and share my thoughts.
Posted 39 months ago.
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I did once. I ended up losing, and subsequently finding, a bunch of needles in my messenger bag—ouch! I shortly decided that I would not bother trying that again until I secured a better transportation system.
Oh wait, that's not entirely true. I also made a couple of these on my lunch break at work:
Because it was plastic canvas it was easier to pack flat. Unfortunately, they also got a bit grubby and these sorts of things can't really be effectively washed.
My only objection is purely logistical.
Posted 39 months ago.
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I actually have a funny story about this. Several years ago I worked at a coffee shop and business was rather slow in the afternoons during my shift so I always brought embroidery projects to work on. The customers were often interested in what I was doing and occasionally they would comment that embroidery is an odd craft for a man, but this didn't happen as often as one might think.
One day an older man came into the coffee shop and saw me working on an embroiodery and he told me that his dad did needlework as a hobby back in the 30's and 40's. He said that his dad traveled quite a bit and would take his projects to work on, often in public but he would always hide it when other people came around because he feared that people might think he wasn't very manly if he were seen doing a "woman's craft".
Personally I like to embroider in public, but as benjibot mentioned, the issue is usually logistical. You have many tangled threads and needles and expensive embroidery scissors to contend with... for me embroidery is a juggling act, so i usually embroider at home while watching television and on the rare occasion that I do embroider in public, I welcome questions and comments concerning my gender as it relates to embroidery.
Posted 39 months ago.
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Excellent story - especially the section about the 40s and 50s. I think we are (or have) passed through that stigma. But I know that I still get some odd looks when I stitch over coffee.
Actually, I try to stitch out at least twice per week.
Posted 39 months ago.
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I am in the same boat as Jerryleetypes. When I am working on a project I usually have needles, floss, pencils, scissors and everything else sprawled across a 10 square square yard area. I have done some finishing touches in public. One time I even did a repair on a piece at the post officeright before I mailed it to a buyer. That was necessity dictating. I prefer the solitude of my "batcave" for major work.
Posted 39 months ago.
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I can't believe you didn't use the term "mancave" considering...
A former roommate had a room called "the mancave." All of the toys and tchochtkes his wife wouldn't allow in the common rooms were stashed in his personal fortress of solitude. It was pretty magnificent.
Posted 39 months ago.
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Every man should have a mancave. Over here in the UK we call them "sheds" and they live at the end of our gardens. But I can spend time there in solitude, knowing that my wife won't come near it. :)
Posted 39 months ago.
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hey dudes, might i share w/ you the device i use to keep embroiderin' in public from being chaotic? :
www.flickr.com/photos/rustyfern/3383324922/in/set-7215760...
Originally posted 39 months ago.
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rustyfern edited this topic 39 months ago.
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I was just listening to a podcast feature Rob Corddry who used the word "mancave" to describe just such a place.
Posted 39 months ago.
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my mam told me she'd kick the shit out of me if I embroidered in public.
then she asked me to turn up her trousers for her....
mothers.
Posted 38 months ago.
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I have been for a long time and I am never embarassed cause most of the time people will ask to see or look over my shoulder and the stuff that I do usually gets a "Hey that is really cool". Which will usually get me some custom work.
Posted 33 months ago.
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Since the health fascists brought in the smoking ban in pubs, I find it keeps my hands occupied when I go for a pint.
Strangely, the only hostility I encounter comes from women who resent male inroads into areas dominated by them. Ultra left-wing feminists are the worst, they won't have anything to do with needlecrafts themselves, but that doesn't stop them viewing male stitchers as invaders of women's territory.
Posted 24 months ago.
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I usually stitch in Starbucks, and usually people ignore me. The rainbow coelacanth did get an eyebrow raise from a few people though.
Posted 24 months ago.
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Because I travel a lot for teaching, I spend much time in trains. There I stitch or embroider, if it is not to crowded. Mostly I go unnoticed, I'm small and I work on my lap. Sometimes just my neighbor is aware of my doing. And to tell the truth, I even do the most erotic embroideries in the train, like this:
walterbrunobrix.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/schurz/
walterbrunobrix.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/members-mitglieder/
Seldom I get questions and this is done quite fast, because if not, I would have no time to work.
I enjoy to work on my travels, because the time is spend with a nice and producing work.
Originally posted 23 months ago.
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Brix Walter Bruno edited this topic 23 months ago.
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I have stitched in Central Park @ Bethesda Fountain, on the subway separating yarn plys or finishing up a deadline for a commissioned piece (the rocking of the train is not conducive to getting the needle in the correct hole : D) @ Cupcake Cafe
where an artist approached me, saying she had never seen a boy doing needlepoint adding that she learned how to in private school in Mexico and then quipped, "I wish my husband sewed"! Mostly, inquisitive sorts want to start a conversation and are curious, a flight hostess was receptive once on a cross country flight to San Francisco. I prefer to be in private; I am a bit self conscious. If in public, it is easy to tune everyone surrounding me out. Good question.
Posted 16 months ago.
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Does stitching in the open plan office at work count, usually do small quick projects like Christmas cards at my desk over a cpl of lunch breaks, u do get the odd look here and there but hey so what ...:)
Posted 6 months ago.
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