Sewing vs Knitting

I'm not sure whether to label this post as Knitting or Sewing because I'm planning to talk about both of them. :-) Not that I've done either one lately. All my spare time has been spent writing. I'm doing this post a few weeks before it posts (because writing), and I'm nearly finished with Wicked Deception. I actually would be finished if I'd been able to stick to the word count I was aiming for. It will be about 10,000 words more (I'm estimating), so extra writing time is needed.

Anyway, I've never been good at crafts. Too impatient, so it's been a revelation to be able to learn to knit and to sew decently enough to be wearing a T-shirt I made. (I won't wear it out of the house, but I am wearing it.) My mom didn't knit or crochet, and while she sort of sewed, it was when she had to, and that wasn't often. And when we closed up my parents' house in Minnesota after she died, we got rid of all her sewing stuff because I was never going to use it.

Yeah.

Picking up knitting was cheaper. A lot cheaper. All I needed was a set of needles and some yarn. And yarn comes in different price points, so there is cheaper stuff available.

Sewing? Luckily, I already had a machine. That was bought in 1994 and had never been out of its box until I had to sew masks at the beginning of the pandemic. But I didn't have sewing scissors or pinking shears or pins or thread or fabric or extra sewing machine needles or elastic or buttons or a decent iron or a million other things.

I still don't have a tailor's ham or seam roll for ironing or one of those wooden clapper board things, also for ironing. Heck, I don't even have an ironing board! I don't have a serger or a overcast machine. I don't have a button hole cutter thing or all the feet I need for the sewing machine. And probably a million other things I haven't thought of yet.

I'm trying to pick things up over time because sewing equipment is expensive. Like it seriously adds up fast. Good scissors alone are like $30.

When I think of all my mom's sewing stuff that we donated, I want to cry. I could have had everything I needed including the ironing board. But who ever would have guessed that I would sew? I mean craft-type stuff isn't my bag, and when she died, I wasn't even knitting yet.

With my knitting, I have multiple sets of needles and a stash of yarn and I'm good. I mean I literally have everything I have to have. I'm not sure I'll ever manage to buy everything I need for sewing.

At least the machine I have can do some of the stitches that an overcast machine can do. It might have been made in 1994, but it has some nifty features. In the meantime, I'll pick up items one at a time as they became must-haves for a project.

Now if I only had time to sew. Or knit.