Posted by SisterDG on 2007-01-03 14:05:49
Post Subject: Church of Craft in Portland, OR: January Meeting
The January Church of Craft meeting is Sunday, January 14th. Usual time: 11:30 - 2:30. Usual place: Rimsky-Korsacoffee House, 707 SE 12th (at Alder). If you're forwarding this to someone who's never been before, it's the big, old red house at the corner of SE 12th and Alder. There is no sign out front.
Our craft class for January is Wire Crochet with Beads. We'll be making a choker or a bracelet, or both. This is a very easy and cool-looking technique, and you don't even have to know how to crochet!
You can see pictures over at our brand-new group on Lov.li (a great place for creative people to meet and share things). Check out the pix at this link:
http://www.lov.li/groups/25
If you'd like to join us, please email sisterdg@churchofcraft.org for a supply list. Church of Craft is a nondenominational group of people who love to make stuff. Learn more at http://www.churchofcraft.org. We hope to see you there!
Posted by Athos on 2004-06-04 00:28:31
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two excellent points in this thread - would i have fun making it, and is it something i really need.
too often, i get caught up in the intellectual challenge of crafting - i started a thread a few weeks ago about when craft work is too much work, when i passed on a lovely knit dress from a thrift store that needed the sleeves unwound and reknit. just because i _could_ fix it, that doesn't mean i would enjoy it or i *have* to fix it.
and i also get caught up in making things just to have them. anthropologie had a gorgeous wire crochet beaded purse a year ago. i could easily make it, and i got the supplies. but i really don't need a purse like that, and a year later, the supplies are still sitting in my crochet bin. that's money i could have saved to buy a plane ticket home, something i desperately want right now and can't afford.
i'm glad i read this thread - i'll definitely keep these issues in mind when i get "inspired" to make something i see in a store.
Posted by nicegirl512 on 2004-10-13 14:37:16
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Knitting. My evil grandmother knits, my mother (her daughter) crochets. My evil grandmother is always talking about how knitting is so much better than crochet, etc. As a sign of solidarity with my mother, I will only crochet (though I do it sporadically and badly and can only make scarves or wire crochet jewelry).
Seed beads. Love the effect, too impatient. Like the relatively instant gratification of working with regular-sized beads--though I never just string them on a string, I do wire work.
Quilting. I sew clothes. I like clothes.
Ditto on Scrapbooking. My sister scrapbooks, I acknowledge that it makes really nice meaningful albums, but it's too time consuming and not rewarding enough for me. Most of my crafts end up as something to wear (jewelry, sewing, embroidery) or at the very least display (mosaic, watercolor). I'm too much of a show off to put it away in an album. Plus, I'm not great in two dimensions, I like working in three.
Don't have the talent for collage or really most paper crafts.
