That’s a dedicated blogger

I’d say about half of my blog posts are banged out in under ten minutes, and I forget what I’ve written soon after that.

Over at Embloggery, Nicole Wolfersberger hand-embroiders each entry. Yep that’s right, sews them by hand.

The idea with this project is to examine the implications of the fact that we now have the ability to disseminate widely something written very quickly, to a potentially very large audience.
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My response is to create this blog, posting embroidered diary entries on a regular basis. While the posting of the image is nearly instantaneous, the act of physically creating the object is much slower than typing or even handwriting an entry. This forces me to think very carefully about what to include

I think it’s a lovely little project, it’s quirky and it’s transient yet permanent. Nicole also has a Flickr stream where she adds more background detail to each entry - she also has some really gorgeous artwork.

It’s interesting how so many people of my generation are getting back into arts and crafts and hand-made objects. I don’t know if it’s a response to having enough of mass-produced goods and advertising aimed at consuming, or maybe because they’re skills that are going to be lost with our grandparents and we’re just starting to understand that, but I know so many people who love crafting, knitting, felting and sewing.

And in the cooking world, slow food is becoming a revolution, as is growing your own herbs and vegetables, renting backyard chickens and I’m even learning how to pickle things right now.

So is it an age thing (we’re becoming a bunch of grannies) or is it in response to the speed of society and the relentless consumerism and crapness of most things in the shops?

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