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by **ShropshirePagan** » 24 Nov 2006, 18:05

I've been really inspired by reading this forum today in particular, and recently I've been getting inspired with what I would like to know about as well as by actually making items myself.

I felt quite low all day recently, but then decided to make some bookmarks for some friends for Yule - the process of focussing and making these items lifted my mood, and I felt so much better afterwards!

This is what I know how to do so far ...

Baking
Sewing - basic dressmaking really!
Basic knitting and crochet
Cross Stitch
Bit of beadcraft
Making greetings cards

What I'd like to learn

Papier mache art - I'd particularly like to be able to make papier mache beads
Paper making - particularly recycled and paper from nature
Wittling with wood (not sure if that is spelled correctly) - I'd love to make some wooden beads
Probably lots of other things that haven't even entered my head yet!

I do try to have craft hobbies that are economical (being on a budget) and that use recycled products if at all possible.

What crafts do you do and do you have a burning desire to learn something new?

Blessings

Elaine x

by **Busker** » 24 Nov 2006, 21:13

I used to make pendants i.e. pentagrams,ankhs,eyes of Horus,stars of David and a few other things besides out of brass and copper.
My tools were piercing saw,needle files,fine and course wet and dry sanding paper,tripoli,jeweler's rouge and brasso.
I used to sell them.
Thanx for asking. I had largely forgotten about it.

by **Nineflowers** » 26 Nov 2006, 23:26

What crafts do you do and do you have a burning desire to learn something new?

I do:

spinning
braid weaving
natural dyeing
papermaking
silk papermaking
making 15thC costume
teddy bear making

something new:

the teddies are new! Daren't start on anything else!

by **SidheAingeal** » 26 Nov 2006, 23:33

I love making natural cosmetics such as cleansers and lotions, as well as bath crystals. I also do quite a bite of scrapbook journaling and plan on making scapbooks of my engagement, wedding and honeymoon.

I've done a little baking and would love the time to do more of it. I really want to learn how to make my own healthy baked goods. One thing I would really like to do is learn how t sew dolls clothes and make little faery dolls to sell at markets or just for me. I collect all things fae and I think this would be really enjoyable.

by **Lorraine** » 27 Nov 2006, 10:53

I make silver jewellery - rings, pendants, bracelets. Recently I have been getting back into drawing and painting with acrylics after not doing any for years. I don't know why I was so long away from it - possibly due to a loss of confidence in the results as I'm horribly perfectionist, but practice makes perfect. I've also done some mosaic making with glass tesserae before. I liked the end results, but found it to be rather a slow process and the tiny fragments of broken glass tended to get everywhere. Next time I try it I think I'll aim for a bigger and bolder effect with broken ceramic tiles.

Lorraine

by **Crystal Dragon** » 27 Nov 2006, 12:20

I like to crochet, not items of clothing or doillies although I did a few when I was first learning some years ago now, but these days I like to do the more unusual intricate items - flowers/plants, miniature teddy bears/toys, items of jewellery, etc. I also like to try out different yarns and textures. At present I am doing a large pair of dressed cats, a boy and girl which when finished will be a pair of draft excluders although they are rather nice for that but we will see. I have to confess that some projects take me a while to complete but I always go back to them, that's what I like about crochet work, it's easy to start and stop.

New hobby - having been a professional technical illustrator for 30+ years, a few years ago I seemed to lose all interest in artwork but in the last year or so I keep being drawn back to it, so I am experimenting with a new medium - Pyrography and I am enjoying it greatly. It has also made me get my art materials out again so I guess I'm hooked. They say a change is as good as a rest and I seem to have so many ideas for projects at present :D

by **Gypsywolf** » 08 Feb 2007, 23:52

Hrmmmm.... Do a lot of bead work, a lot of weaving, but trying to get into more wirework at this point... Umm, braiding, may not really be a craft, but I like photography...

Hoping to get to know more about working with metal, actually creating my own stuff would be nice, but living in an apartment limits workability a bit I think, lol...

by **Bracken** » 09 Feb 2007, 00:12

Hi Lorraine.

I love silver jewellery so much I can hardly find the words. :yay:

Have you got a website?

Mamanohead.

by **Lorraine** » 09 Feb 2007, 20:07

Hi mamanohead, I don't have a website. I make the bardic pendants that are sold through the OBOD shop but am not into it as a full time business. I'd really need to invest in more equipment in order to make that transition and am not sure whether I want to, right now.

Lorraine

by **Bracken** » 09 Feb 2007, 20:17

Thanks for letting me know, Lorraine.

Just went to look.

They are fabulous.

Mamanohead

by **Salomea** » 10 Feb 2007, 22:04

Lorraine wrote:I make silver jewellery - rings, pendants, bracelets.

wow I envie you (in possitive way) I want to learn making jewellery more than just from copper wire, but I can't find a master in guild :cry: How did you learn and could you maybe give me some advise about it?

by **Lorraine** » 11 Feb 2007, 00:46

Mamanohead, thanks.

Salomea, I first started learning jewellery/silversmithing in a part-time class at a further education college. Sometimes art colleges have extra part-time beginner's classes in subjects such as silversmithing that are open to the public, too.

Lorraine

by **Salomea** » 11 Feb 2007, 13:19

thank you, I'll look around, maybe there will be some extra classes, but it's small chance that it will be at my deparment- archeology :wink:

once again thank you and I would love to see your art

by **Silverleaf_Willow** » 12 Feb 2007, 07:21

What crafts do you do and do you have a burning desire to learn something new?

I like to knit and crochet. I have done beadwork and embroidery. I enjoy fingerweaving and sprang (an ancient form of weaving).

I am learning how to make lucet cording.

I am learning how to use a sewing machine.

I would love to learn how to spin wool and weave on a loom.

-Silverleaf Willow-

by **Oaken** » 06 Jun 2007, 19:44

Well I came looking to see if anybody knits and I'm glad some of you do

For the time being that's my craft of choice - ok, it's an obsession, lol - but I'd like to do more sewing too. I don't have a machine but have made some handsewn toys which aren't bad for a beginner!

by **Kernos** » 06 Jun 2007, 20:44

I would love to learn how to carve and sculpt wood

. I am great at whittling, but I would like to do more. At various times I have wanted to smith metal and sculpt stone.

:zen:

by **Aylyn** » 08 Jun 2007, 16:06

I am very good with anything that involves wool or fabric. Especially knitting - I have spent countless hours in schools and universities listening to boring lectures, and that was only possible by bringing my knitting...

I also consider gardening a craft, as I do Bonsai Trees....

I would love to learn woodworking, but I do not have the space (yet). And everything I have done with those woodworking knives has resulted in cuts and blood... :cry:

There must be a better way.... And making mobiles - not the thing you telephone with, but what you hang over your babies bed to entertain them... I have some nice hagstones which I would like to use for this - rocks in space ;-))

by **Holly** » 11 Jun 2007, 03:02

I've tried my hand at almost every kind of craft except wood carving and metalworking. In most cases, if I can see it done once or see a picture of it, I can do it. My most often persuits are:

Basketry
Knitting
Embroidery & beadwork
Wood Burning (just started this up two weeks ago)
Wreaths & floral arrangements
Stained Glass & mosaics
Pottery
Oils, soaps, & other aromatherapy stuffs

I think I get all of it from my mom's side of the family, even though I do better with shaping things by hand while the rest of the family are painters and woodworkers. I can draw fairly decently but I can't blend colors on a canvas worth anything.

by **Aurora** » 11 Jun 2007, 10:10

I want to learn how to do quilting and have got my hands on some how to stuff :D

Otherwise i like to:

Cook, especially historical cooking
Cross stitch
Very basic hand weaving
home made soap, lotions etc..

by **green magi** » 19 Jun 2007, 04:07

im a cartoonest,modern artist,really all kinds of art that involves a pencil or pen
and i make most of my own magical tools
every one should make a copper wand its great for directing energy
pine ones r good to :grin:

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