NATIONAL CRAFTING MONTH MEET AND GREET

[nsfwords]

Welcome! Here is our space to squee about the current theme and tell others a bit about our crafting interests.

Below are the thematic questions for this months fest. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to National Crafting Month.

 

My Name (how I wish to be known):
Type(s) of Crafting that I’ve tried:
I consider myself a Beginner, Intermediate, Master, or Other:
Crafting I’ve loved and/or loathed:
Project I’m particularly proud of:
Something I learned the hard way:
Something I haven't done yet, but I'd like to try:
Biggest crafting frustration(s):
Something else I'd like to share:

Feel free to copy this Meet and Greet into your blog as well as filling it out here.
<strong> My Name (how I wish to be known):</strong><br /><br /><strong>Type(s) of Crafting that I’ve tried:</strong><br /><br /><strong>I consider myself a Beginner, Intermediate, Master, or Other:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Crafting I’ve loved and/or loathed:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Project I’m particularly proud of: </strong><br /><br /><strong>Something I learned the hard way:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Something I haven't done yet, but I'd like to try:</strong><br /><br /><strong>Biggest crafting frustration(s):</strong><br /><br /><strong>Something else I'd like to share:</strong>

Comments

[shaddyr]

My Name (how I wish to be known): Shaddyr

Type(s) of Crafting that I’ve tried: Sewing, candle making, jewelry making/bead-work, scrapbooking, kitting, crochet, drop spinning, quilting, painting, card making, book binding

I consider myself a Beginner, Intermediate, Master, or Other: I think I'm intermediate - journeyman. You need a LOT of experience to be a master of something.

Crafting I’ve loved and/or loathed:
Loved: I used to get together with a couple of my best girlfriends for a weekend and we would do beading and jewelry making together. It was so much fun. Very best times, doing a fun thing I loved with people I loved.
Loathed: When I was a kid, my mom got me this latch rug kit. I HATED it. I'm too impatient to do any craft that doesn't give me a fairly immediate ROI.

Project I’m particularly proud of: I really love the wrap I made last winter. I bought this delicious malabrigo washted yarn in Cereza and Poción because when I saw the colours, I just knew they would go together and be amazing.



Something I learned the hard way: Do not weave in the ends too early. Especially if you are not sure you're happy with a project and might decide to frog part of it, or throw it completely back into the pond. Because OI. I'm way too good at weaving in ends and WHAT A PAIN to frog something when you do that.

Something I haven't done yet, but I'd like to try: I am trying really hard to NOT get sucked into anything new.

Biggest crafting frustration(s): Not enough time to do everything I want to do. If I did have the time, I'd complain I don't have the space. If I did, well, everything is so darn expensive. I guess not having enough time could sorta be a blessing in disguise...

Something else I'd like to share: I have expressed this to my children but they do not agree. I have found that acquiring yard is really as separate hobby/interest from making something with said yarn. Does anyone else find this to be so?

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I bought this delicious malabrigo washted yarn in Cereza and Poción because when I saw the colours, I just knew they would go together and be amazing.<<

That yarn comes in such gorgeous colorways!

>> I have found that acquiring yard is really as separate hobby/interest from making something with said yarn. Does anyone else find this to be so? <<

Yes. It is especially true of art yarn. Some people buy it not to use but to display, as a type of sculpture. It's the same as any other collection.

[smallhobbit]

I definitely feel you on the time factor. I concentrate on one thing for a few days and realise I've totally neglected something else. And yes, acquiring and using are entirely different.

[meridian_rose]

That is an impressive list of crafts! Someone who does like both knitting and crochet plus spinning and the rest of the wonderful array.
I love the wrap! So cosy looking!

The cost/space/time are the major obstacles to crafting and as you say it's hard to balance those out.
I think maybe accquiring yarn is a bit like notebooks for writers. Even if 99% of writing is done electronically there's something about notebooks with lovely covers and in different sizes and lines vs plain vs squares and it's on sale...and they're too pretty to write in....so more notebooks. Maybe it's like that. so pretty and good price and then the perfect project to use it in doesn't suggest itself, so more yarn... ? ;P

[nsfwords]

>>I used to get together with a couple of my best girlfriends for a weekend and we would do beading and jewelry making together. It was so much fun. Very best times, doing a fun thing I loved with people I loved.<<

This sounds lovely, and like something I should get my friends doing. Maybe once a quarter?

That yarn and the wrap you crafted are both completely gorgeous!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Arts and crafts parties are great fun. People used to do that stuff all the time -- quilting bees and such. It was a mainstay of human connections until the last several decades or so.