Party Ideas – Mid Life Crisis

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This Party is from WantsandWishesDesign.com and is Fabulous. (Pun Intended)

Every night at around 9 pm when my children refuse to close their eyes or they tell me they are hungry or thirsty or need to wee – I sit and plan out my Mid Life Crisis. I think about all the things I would rather be doing . Basically my (pathetic) mid life crisis will consist of sleeping and watching British T.V programs. The two things I no longer do in life.

When I do decide to lose the plot and embark on the journey of “My Mid Life Crisis” I think I will throw a party. In fact I will be 35 this year and as my dear friend keeps reminding me, that is half way to 70. Which means that a “Mid Life Crisis” party might be closer than I think.

All of the items are available in their NEW SHOP- WantsandWishesDesign.com. They also have a non Midlife Crisis option- Welcome to my fabulous Birthday Party.

There are a lot of stories out there these days about AI use in the crafting space for everything from answering technique questions to writing patterns.

And there’s a lot of content about how to spot AI patterns, or even just photos on the Internet that people are claiming to have made but are clearly AI generated.

As the models get better, though, it can be harder to tell. Gone (mostly) are the days of AI sewing patterns with models who have too many fingers, but one thing it’s still hard for AI to replicate is individual stitches.

You’ll see this in knitting, crochet and cross stitch, where a project might look good from a distance but if you zoom in you’ll see there aren’t individual stitches, or they don’t look the way real stitches would look.

That’s part of the rationale behind a change at r/CrossStitch, the largest cross stitch community on Reddit, which now requires people to show a close up of their finished projects (lots of people seem to be showing off the backs, too) to prove their projects aren’t AI.

Lord Libidan reported on this news and I agree with them that I’m not sure why people in an online forum would be sharing AI “finished objects” when it’s a venue where you can’t sell patterns. But I understand their desire to keep the forum free of AI images. I wish Etsy had such a requirement so that people selling patterns had to prove they’d actually stitched them (though there are plenty of patterns that just show a chart and not a finished item, AI or not.)

Lord Libidan probably has a different perspective because he’s seen people selling kits made from an AI version of a free cross stitch pattern of his. Which is another layer.

I have my own feelings about AI and crafting but I just think it’s really interesting both the things people will do with AI without saying it’s AI and the lengths other people will go to in order to prove something is or isn’t AI. Or even calling something AI just because it’s really detailed and looks good? What times we live in.

[Photo via Lord Libidan, closeup of an image made by Google Gemini’s Nano Banana]

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