How I became a craftsman
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To tell everything honestly, I have to start at the beginning. How have I got to where I am today?
It all started with the construction of a playhouse for our little one, Elody, who was 3.5 years old at the time. We ordered the house from mänguväljakud.eu and my ex-husband was happy to put it up. We assembled the house as we saw fit, not as the instructions said – we rearranged the door and put it in a different place, and we reinforced the second floor and made it 100x more secure so that you could sleep there if you needed to. We built a new staircase. We put proper glass for the windows and made two of them openable. All the windows also got windowsills. We lined the inside of the house with waxed lining boards. We covered the floorboards with terrace oil. The roof got a proper tar paper and roofing sheets. The house has electricity – that means lighting.
And there was light!When the house was ready, it was time to start decorating it, so now it’s my turn:D
Since I already had my IKEA play kitchen, we moved it from the room to the playhouse. The curtains were sewn by hand from Elody’s old bed linen, and the pictures on the walls were my old work from school. I found the furniture – table, chairs, sofa – on the Internet.
And then it was time for the carpet. I’d done a bit of crochet once in primary school and I knew how to make a chain. So I thought: “It shouldn’t be hard to make a carpet!” I bought some cotton tricot yarn and crochet needles, found a pattern on the internet (which was like Chinese for me) and started crocheting. A few rows of crochet and the rug started to take the shape of a hat.
I tried and I tried, but I couldn’t do it. Then I made a call to my university mate Kersti, who is “a woman like an orchestra”, there is probably no craft she doesn’t know how to do. Luckily, she had the patience and the will to teach and help me over messenger and phone. I would like to express my sincere thanks to her once again!
And along with making the carpet, I also got infected with the handicrafts bug, luckily I haven’t gotten cured so far and it has become a chronic illness that I have come to terms with and learned to live with, but everything that follows is already the subject of the next blog posts😊
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