Any crafters out there…?

[nonnie]

@Josephine wrote:

My mom was a quilter. Do you hand quilt with frames or machine quilt? Or both? My mom, who has passed away, and her best friend used to have an on going argument about quilting. My mom did hand quilting. She prefered to do lap quilts with a hand held frame, but we did have a large frame taking up space in the living room when I was younger. Her best friend loved to machine quilt. She used to try to get her friend to do hand stitching and would tease her that using a sewing machine was cheating and not real quilting. The goading never worked, but they both enjoyed quilting in their own way. Both of my parents were grew up in the country and came from mothers who quilted. They’ve both said it was not unusual to come home and have a house full of women having a quilting bee, working on the same quilt. I have some of my mom’s quilts that I cherish.

My mom also did plastic canvas. We used to have tissue box holders and other things around the house. My mom taught me, but I haven’t done it in years. She was into just about any craft there was. We have stuff to knit, quilt, crochet, needlepoint, leather work, woodworking, painting, etc.

I also like to make dollhouses. I haven’t done it in a few years, but I like to build and make 1:12 scale houses and furniture. The kind that you’d never allow little hands to touch in a million years. I’ve been getting the itch to get back into it, but I’ll wait until spring. All that sanding and painting isn’t a great thing to do inside in the cold of winter.

There use to be a big argument in the quilting community HAND vs MACHINE quilting but everyone agrees now… DO IT YOUR WAY.

I am learning how to free motion quilt on a domestic / standard sewing machine. I do not use a long arm with the 14 foot frame. My hands cramp when I tried hand quilting; I no longer do embroidery because of that.

I think any crafting results in a sense of satisfaction and creativity regardless of what it is. Doing crafts as long as a person enjoys the work is what is important.

Nonnie

[evilqueen]

I embroider – used to do it lots and lots of it, literally my only past time but now I’m unfortunately too busy to do much of it. I know I will come back to it one day though!

[hellraiser-89]

I’ve made some movie props but that’s about it.

[TheGoldenKey]

I do paper tole/decoupage (three dimensional pictures). Love the Antoine Peck prints as they are so pretty when done. Birds are always lovely but so much detailed required when doing the feathering. Tiny scissors and so many little cuts. 😮

Keeper of Pandora's Box & The Yellow Brick Road.

[spinninggold]

@Josephine wrote:

I’d love to start spinning. My mom used to want a spinning wheel, but there was never any room in the house for one. I’ve been thinking about getting a drop spindle and learning that first. I’m not going to go so far as getting my own sheep. I draw the line there. Watching Rumple spin is a bonus to my knitting love. 😉 Plus, I love all the jaunty caps that Mary Margaret and Emma wore last season.

A spindle is a lot harder to use than a wheel, but you can DIY one quite easily even from a piece of cardboard and a pencil. The important bit is that you get combed wool (or comb wool yourself), because all the fibers need to be in the same direction. I only tried spinning once and it is mesmorizing, I tell you. I must admit that I keep watching Rumpel spin, and I think sometimes he is faking it with prespun thread, whilst in desperate souls he was definately spinning, on a spinning wheel WITH foot paddle I think, where the big wheel he uses most is without. Youtube has some great tutorials.

@TheGoldenKey wrote:

I do paper tole/decoupage (three dimensional pictures). Love the Antoine Peck prints as they are so pretty when done. Birds are always lovely but so much detailed required when doing the feathering. Tiny scissors and so many little cuts. 😮

Do you mean Anton Pieck? There is a Dutch theme park called the Efteling (full of fairy tales) that has quite a few attractions build to his drawings, like the fairy tale forest and land of Laaf. Fairy tales and Anton Pieck, I think you’d love it.

Yes, the Evil Queen 😆

I love knitting, (must make http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/once-upon-a-time—once-there-was-a-baby-blanket as well as the hats. I love knitting hats, they make great weekend projects ) but also tailor making clothes. The clothes in FTL make me drool especially the Evil queen’s coats are magnificent in that respect… and so is her Storybrooke wardrobe, she is just so stylish.
I don’t quilt but I did do some Omiyage, which is basically fabric art, and makes lovely quiltlike pouches
I also make hats. Did you know hatters really use to go mad in the past? The toxins in the glues and starches were so bad, that it was a Mad Hatters disease. Luckily, those toxins are now banned.
Basically I love anything that you can make, so if it can be done yourself I’ll give it a go
I also love writing, and growing organic vegtables and fruit.

[jessista]

I’m a crocheter (sp?). I do mostly hats that I donate to various charities. I have a friend who spins with a drop spindle and seems to like it–I asked her once if she would buy a wheel, and she said they were really expensive and big. I wouldn’t know.

[spinninggold]

I tried the drop spindle and it is HARD to keep it spinning, stretch the wool and not let the yarn break, all at the same time. Takes a lot of practice, doing three things at once. Though I did find a good tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXid5cT0y8 Must try again.
Good on Robert Carlyle, restoring the spinning craft week by week 😀

[Gaultheria]

Thank you, Josephine, for the compliment re: the Green Lantern scarf. I’m sorry for taking so long to respond; lost track of this thread back then.

I’m on Ravelry (same username as here), but that scarf is the only finished object that I’ve posted so far. I also want to put up pictures of the socks I make, once I’ve also made a pair of wooden sock blockers to display them. (I can’t bring myself to spend $35 for two foot-shaped pieces of foam.)

Gaultheria's fanvids: http://youtube.com/sagethrasher

[Josephine]

Thought I’d share with my fellow crafters my drop spindle I made. It cost me less than $5 and made from a dowel rod, rubber washer, cup hook and two old CDs. I’m technically not spinning in the picture. Right now, I’m learning to “ply”. To non-knitters/spinners, this is taking two threads and twisting them around each other to make a thicker yarn. But I do have wool roving waiting to be spun into yarn. That’s next on the list. First, I have to finish plying my unraveled $4 recycled cashmere sweater so I can make a scarf from it.

Gaultheria, I don’t have sock blockers and have never blocked my socks before, but I did make my own blocking board out of styrofoam insulation board from Lowes, duct tape and gingham fabric. Much cheaper than buying a commercially made blocking board. It’s ridiculous what yarn stores sell blockers for. Like you, I refuse to pay it.

Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.

[pixiexw]

I knit, sew, embroider, paint, draw, do card making, I have a few reborn dolls that I’ve made, and I’m in the process of making my first dolls house! I do it all lol

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