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If you asked me my hobbies, I’d say reading, writing, sewing, cooking, a few odd crafts and occasional gardening. The newest one I’m calling ‘internet gifting’, and it is an odd hobby. For some time now, I’ve been reducing my fabric stash by making things, bags in particular, and sending them off to cyber-folk. It is always fulfilling, completing the project alone is fulfilling, but when I am making something for someone else I am ever so much more careful in my work, and therefore that much more pleased with the outcome. Sometimes it is very, very, fulfilling. For example, The Tribe. Everybody plays nice, there are always ‘thank-you’s’ and much ‘oohing’ and ‘ahhhing’ and even when you miss the mark folks are too kind to mention it. Missing the mark is particularly disappointing for me. It’s about 5% sadness that I’ve created something with such care and (dare I say) ‘love’ and it will never be used. (It’s probably nice to receive (mail is always nice) but it is ultimately a disappointment.) And 95% frustration on my part that I failed the recipient, failed because I had set out to make something they would love as much as I did during the making. I’ve participated in swaps where my supposed partner never sent a single e-mail. Shipped things that I guess arrived, simply because they never came back. Busted my butt to make a promised deadline and never received one word of thanks. None of these are as frustrating as missing that mark. I’ve received things that are off target, though very few, and I’ve re-gifted them *gasp* to other friends that I know will love them. And I think that’s ok, because I hope that’s what folks do with my ‘missed mark’ items. I would rather them be loved by someone than discarded. And that is what make ‘internet gifting’ an odd hobby.