We must be around the same age. These things were a HUGE fad sometime around the late 70’s early 80’s. I did a ton of them, Including a few that were 2 feet square and at least one R2D2. I am also pretty sure that I worked on my projects while watching “In Search Of” or “Not Necessarily the News”
As a dude in elementary school, my hobby was my secret shame. I refused to even store any of the materials in my room for fear that it would be discovered by a friend. I quit doing it when my mom brought it up at a family function and my cousins got wind of it. It all went in the trash when I got home in a spectacular pre-teen freakout that made my mom cry.
I was just thinking of that episode a few weeks ago when I sat next to a guy on the plane who busted out his knitting project shortly after he sat down. He said he was from Iceland and that almost everyone there (of his generation) learned how to knit at a very early age.
