I Bought and Embroidery Book

So I like to do crafty little things now and again. Hey, there is nothing wrong with doing crafts. I watch sports too, and I also play video games.

But I wanted to understand embroidery a little bit better and I happened to be where they were selling books and fate slapped me on the face and I went home with an embroidery book.

I had no idea of the amazingly complex things that can be done with embroidery. Some of it seems utterly pointless to me, like the super complex stitches where they make this pattern and then undo the weave of the original material. But then it does look cool when it is all finished.

But I had to ask myself. Who thought to do this stuff first? I mean who in their right mind sat down and thought up doing stitches that complicated? Somebody had a lot of time on their hands. Somebody had nothing to do but sit and embroider.

Which brings me to think that we are really losing ourselves if thousands of years ago there were people out there who had it so good that they could afford to sit on their buts for months on end doing nothing more than pulling a needle and a thread. We work ourselves to death but they had it figured out millennia ago. What chumps we must be.