Remember when this was going to be my Block Lotto year? Yeah, me too. I was so ready to make every single block. I labeled a big ziplock (so you know I was serious) for all my future Block Lotto block parts. I made January's blocks & sent them out into the world....& have not done a damn thing since. OKay, that's a lie. I have been keeping up with the monthly linky...linkies?
& this month is "what does handmade mean to you?" & you know, I don't know. Once upon a time I could have been sure I knew: made with hands. but the fact is I don't actually think of a hand knit sweater that I purchase as "handmade' & I do think of a bread I make in my own bread machine as "handmade". Sorta. Now that I look at it in print that seems goofy.
I guess "handmade" to me means made by my hands. Or your hands. Hands I know or know of. I realize that seems petty. When we were in Hawaii, I bought V** a change purse with a purple turtle appliqued on it. After the hibiscus the turtle was the most ubiquitous motif we saw. It was made by hand & mass produced; somehow not "hand made" to me.
The ridiculous thing (one of them) is if I take something mas produced, like fabric & batting & thread & mix it up with something else mass produced like a pattern in a book put I through some mass produced tools like a rotary cutter & a sewing machine & insert my hands THATS makes it "handmade".
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