Other Crafting hobbies??
11-08-2010, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted by tazama
Photography is my all time favorite past time then quilting. I have done crocheting (made many, many afghans), primitive painting (dishes - my own designs), home staging, antique hunting, I find pieces of furniture I want replicated and dear hubby makes them then 'we' finish them and sell or give as gifts, gardening, canning, baking, love to cook and always trying new recipes and am in the middle of putting together a family cookbook, reading anything on health and exercise, I'm a walker/runner and do charity walks, I'm also a part time contractor. Yes, I do construction work with hubby (we own our own business). I swing a mean hammer! I'm very colonial and primitive and always looking for ways to design/redesign rooms in our home. My favorite room we designed is our living room - Americana. The pics attached are of some of the things I have done - the hutch hubby made, the dishes on it I designed and painted, the pie safe hubby made for our son and DL in NY for a Christmas gift and the living room is ours which I designed. I made the mantle cover and we refaced the fireplace with NY field stone. I get bored easily and always looking for new things to try. I guess that is one advantage of quilting - you can make so many different things and always use your own creativity designing.
11-08-2010, 07:05 AM
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hey NC we have something in common. My husband builds furniture too. He built old fashioned chimney cupboards with panels that I woodburned pictures into. He's presently making a corner entertainment center plus wraparound bookcase for my brother. He's suppose ti build me a double chimney cupboard for my quilt storage and I will burn pictures of quilts then color them in, Will post a picture when he gets it done and pics of our sassafras/walnnut cabinet.
11-08-2010, 07:05 AM
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My other love is to make miniature dollhouses, rooms, dioramas, etc. I haven't been able to though lately, because my 2 grown kids moved home and I lost my sewing/hobby/computer room. So now I have a small area of my bedroom I quilt in. I also do machine embroidery and love it; I try to incorporate something into each quilt I make. Right now I'm embroidering fingertip towels as Christmas gifts for my family. Seven sets down, four to go!
11-08-2010, 08:37 AM
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I like to crossstitch stain glass crewel,but most of all I quilt. I do alot of cross stitch christmas stockings for friends children and gran because they can't see the little squares so I make my christmas money.I think I could have a craft show a sell just the stuff I have made.
11-08-2010, 09:22 AM
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OH, my this is very thought provoking! I have done many crafty things, lets see if I can even remember them all! Started off with sewing clothes in high school...my second project was my wedding dress. Got an A on it in home ec then wore it for my wedding 2 years later! Then I bought a book and taught myself to crochet while living in CA (hubby in Navy and gone on ship lots) to break the boredom when not working and hubby not home. Then I did some candlewicking, cross stitching, stamped embroidery, hook latch, bought one of those manual and electrical needles for needle hook latching designs (forgot what it was called), Macrame, made and sold Christmas trees out of hangers for many years - still do make a few every year because somone in the family always wants one for a teacher, nursing home resident, someone sick in hospital etc..
Then I got into rubber stamping, and making greeting cards, learned to knit, jewelry making was my thing for a few years. Like others have said on here, I think the quilting will be what I stick with the rest of my life because I also just learned to machine embroidery. I have been wanting to get rid of my other crafts just collecting dust, belive me I have thousands of dollars in scrapbooking/greeting card making supplies from the inck, stamps, paper, paint embelishments and tools. Same for the jewelry making supplies.....many bucks just laying around. And yarn for knitting and crocheting...more money just getting dusty and taking up space. Space that could be occupied by my stash of fabric. I was glad to hear someone else on here got rid of all the other stuff, I'm going to try to find someone to give it to....soon. Oh, and I almost forgot the Christmas tree ornaments that I made out of model magic and painted after I took a class. Also I made big stiffy bows on baskets for home decor. I'm sure I've missed something but it is making me tired just to think about it all. YES going to stick with quilting because it doen't get boring or routine with all the different patterns and methods to be tried, could never in a lifetime get to them all.
Sharon
Then I got into rubber stamping, and making greeting cards, learned to knit, jewelry making was my thing for a few years. Like others have said on here, I think the quilting will be what I stick with the rest of my life because I also just learned to machine embroidery. I have been wanting to get rid of my other crafts just collecting dust, belive me I have thousands of dollars in scrapbooking/greeting card making supplies from the inck, stamps, paper, paint embelishments and tools. Same for the jewelry making supplies.....many bucks just laying around. And yarn for knitting and crocheting...more money just getting dusty and taking up space. Space that could be occupied by my stash of fabric. I was glad to hear someone else on here got rid of all the other stuff, I'm going to try to find someone to give it to....soon. Oh, and I almost forgot the Christmas tree ornaments that I made out of model magic and painted after I took a class. Also I made big stiffy bows on baskets for home decor. I'm sure I've missed something but it is making me tired just to think about it all. YES going to stick with quilting because it doen't get boring or routine with all the different patterns and methods to be tried, could never in a lifetime get to them all.
Sharon
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