Well, you *know* it's not normal to do things the way I do... I make things up as I go along, and I *never* follow a pattern exactly as written. So, knitting after a pattern with the specified yarn making something someone else has already made is not weird; knitting with re-purposed secondhand yarn after a pattern that only exists in my head and *possibly* in some scribbled notes is. Laughably weird, apparently. Using tattoo flash for embroidery patterns is also very funny.

O well. I'll just ignore her, keep doing it my way, and then go on the net and rant. *grins*

That is good to know. Someday I *will* have a bit more money so I can afford to visit... *hugs* (Hopefully I will also have a job and a life so that I can talk about something besides the horribleness of my mother...)