My favorite craft in the whole entire world is scrapbooking. Yet, I find myself with so many pictures and embellishments to go in my scrapbook right now because I have absolutely NO time to work on it! *Sigh* makes me miss it! =(

My diet is something more important than scrapbooking at the moment, but it definitely gives me something to scrapbook about when I've reached my goal!!

I am a quilter, knitter, crocheter, cross stitcher, and accumulator of craft supplies. I have books and tools for woodworking, car repair, and furniture restoral. I also have an awful lot of gardening books and magazines considering I live in an apartment with a small balcony with minimal natural light in the growing season (maple tree shading the southern exposure). Let's not talk about my collection of Christmas decorating and crafts books and magazines.

I enjoy crafts but over the years I became so scattered I stopped doing much in the last several years. I just bit the bullet and went thru my huge pile of quilting and craft magazines and took out what I wanted and donated the intact ones to charity while throwing out the ones I ripped up. I came to realize that buying craft magazines has become a substitute for actually doing crafts.

I've decided to stick only to crafts I can sew or takes some sort of needle to make. Come to think of it I've got a Christmas cross stitch I started last year I'd better get to work on.

Well my hat is done, I just have to weave in the ends. yay! I ended up having to buy some extra yarn to finish it, now I have 2 (almost) full skeins waiting to be made into matching gloves

First, though, a basic scarf for the bf's brother in-law, now that it's starting to rain here...Followed by the gloves, followed by a Harry Potter scarf, followed by a baby blanket, followed by.....well, you get the picture, lol!

I'll put up a picture once the matching gloves are done

I have done about any kind of craft you can name. I'm an art freak. I'm looking at the shelves in my art room trying to figure out what all it is I do. I tend to forget some of them because I don't do all of it now that I have kids. Don't want them breathing the fumes from oil paints or handling the leading from stained glass.

I love quilling (not quilting, though I know how and have done some...just don't enjoy it)
wood burning
etching
doing stained glass
crocheting though I don't bother with patterns...too much work I just start crocheting and see what I end up with.
I know how to knit and will when I feel like following a pattern for something
Drawing
Painting
Pastels
Beadworking (when you have to wear an annoying medical ID bracelet...dressing it up helps )
ceramics
photography (which is not a hobby, that is what I do)
caligraphy
Sewing...though I generally suck at following a pattern. Just give me a drawing and some fabric and I'm happy.
Cake decorating.

Oh brother...there is more I just can't remember it all.

I do stained glass...... and I have done quite a bit for other people.... actually latelyl most of what I do is for others.... but mostly I do it cause it is fun..... i can't wait until this exam is over and I can go back to breaking glass....

I also knit but havent really had much time for that lately.....

When I was writing exams I wanted to break glass then. Whatever floats your boat.

Those stained glass panels are really lovely.

thanks for the kind words..... I do want to Break glass and "break" glass right now.... these are my PhD comp exams and they are making me crazy one more week.... and I will have time to do both of those things.....

what was I thinking when I decided to join the ranks of the overeducated ayyyy yi yi

I just finished a afghan that I started about two years ago. I had got bored with it, and put it away, but it just felt like time to pull it out. When I was in college I decided to make an afghan for each of my immediate family member's birthdays (that's 10 people). I managed to finish all of them except my baby sister's (the one I just finished). She was only 1 year old at the time, and knowing that she wouldn't know the difference, I didn't give it much priority. Then I discovered that I had a lot less time after graduating! To make a long story short, I finished it last night!! I always make my afghans with a needle two sizes bigger than pattern for softness and size, so this one turned out quite large. I'll try and get a picture for you guys, 'cause my blabbing probably isn't very interesting!!

I'm trying a neck down baby sweater. I've read so much that I actually knit a swatch first!

I also made a bonnet out of a hankie yesterday. So easy and so cute!
Yes the picture thing. I'll work on that too.

Hi all!

Finally got my camera from DH and wanted to post my crochet projects. (This is what I have been doing instead of checking out 3FC'c, LOL!)

The pink set still needs more coasters, and the same with the black and white ones. The edging on the top is still in progress and will be hand stitched to an embroyered hankercheif.

WOW on those stained glass panels,
and how cute is that bonnet!!

Have fun crafting!!

Wow, Sarah, that's great work. I wouldn't have the heart to put anything on those if I'd made them. Beautiful work.

It's nothing to do with weight but I managed to get in and out of Michaels without buying anything today. That alone is a miracle. I will admit to going into a magazine shop and came out with a knitting magazine (patterns up to size 3x) and my Fons and Porter quilting magazine.

I think I'll take out my Christmas cross stitch I started ages ago and do some work on it tonight. You've all inspired me.

Oh, the hankie bonnet was very sweet too. I've seen some lovely quilts where they used vintage hankies as the centre for the blocks. They look particularly sweet as a baby quilt. I'd better stop thinking about it or I'll be seaching ebay for old hankies.

Where's my Ott light?

Yep, I do all that crafty stuff too...
The crocheted sets are absolutely beautiful! How long does it take for you to do them? I've always wanted to try them but they seem so involved! Beautiful
I love the hankie bonnet. I have many many hankies that I was hoping to turn into a quilt someday. Right now, and for the last 2 years on and off Ive been working on a yo-yo quilt. I have about 800 yo-yo's need about 500 more. Gotta get back on that!
I love to knit! I love to do henna! I love to paint! I love to create!
What can i say, Im a lover... lol

Missy- For the large ones, I guesstamate a total of 12-15 hours, small ones only take 3-4. I find that I absolutly loooooove this tiny crochet! The edging takes a #12 steel hook, that's tiny!
This is where I got the pattern-
http://www.crochettreasures.com/free...ns/doilies.htm

Henna huh? I've tried to do that, but I can't seem to get the recipe right. Do you have a recipe I could try?

Wow, #12 hook?! Sheesh, i dont think ive even seen one that small, the smallest hook i have is an E. I had to look up steel hooks, didnt know that lace hook sizes run differently. The pattern is making my head dizzy! I know its all repeat but I have a tendency to mess up somewhere then not be able to figure out where and have to tear it back to the last row, and thats with a G hook sized project. I made a beautiful shawl once, but I am in awe of the doily. Bravo!
For the henna, its so easy... although my friends think its too invovled, its just not. You get some henna at a local Punjab market, or world market, even asian markets sometimes. That way its waaaaay cheaper. (around $2 to $3) Bring it home, sorry, duh. Take out about a quarter cup and sift it thru an old pantyhose. Put it in a non metal, non porous bowl, and add little bits of the following... instant coffee (already mixed up, 3 or 4 ounces of hot tap water with a spoonful or two of instant coffee), a few drops of tea tree oil (this is what is known as a twerp) and a squirt of lemon juice (no need to fresh squeeze b/c it'll just add pulp that'll plug up your tip) Mix it up till you hit a toothpaste consistancy, and let it set for at least 4 hours but not too much longer than 8. Then you just need to scrape it out of the bowl and into a container or cone. Check out this site, it'll explain how to make cones... http://www.hennapage.com/henna/how/applymylar.html
(this is an excellent site! lots of info)
I also use this fabric paint contianer "Scribbles 3D fabric paint" You can get it at Micheals or JoAnnes for about $1.30. Drain it of paint and fill it with Henna! It'll keep for about 3 days in the fridge.
Ah, too much typing, good luck and let me know if you do it or need any help. Missy

I found good advice how to make Quilling Fish
And start to do)))
Really love it) sooo cute