what's your favorite craft?

jean · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject: what's your favorite craft?

i like cooking, but i'm really interested in what most craftistas do for crafting pleasure.

cook, knit, crochet, dance, craft, decoupage, decorate, thrift shop, sew, put together crazy outifts?
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happydaisydoo · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 189 Location: Kansas

My favorite craft is rubber stamping cards. I lack the ability to draw, paint or otherwise create images with my hand. I love the creativity that rubber stamping provides. I can work with images that more gifted hands have developed and use them to create small, personal tokens. I love working with the colors, images, papers and fibers. The possiblilites are endless.

amygdala · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 134 Location: Philadelphia

You forgot to list embroidery! I'm tied between embroidery and knitting myself. I probably embroider more since it is so much cheaper and I have this problem with falling in love with expensive yarn.

xuli · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:41 am Post subject:

I picked knitting, but only because it's currently tied with quilting and quilting wasn't on the list.

I like cooking too .... but I spend more time doing that than any other craft, so I get my fill.
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pudding · Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 583 Location: NSW, Australia

I picked home decorating, because that's what I'm in the throes of right now - I absolutely love it. But I love cooking and gardening equally as much. You should be allowed to vote for more than one answer!! :) I also like trying new crafts - in the last few months I have had a go at knitting (using Stitch n' Bitch as my guide and inspiration) and embroidery. Next I am going to try making some little tubs of lip balms.

jean · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:02 am Post subject:

CraftinFool · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 809 Location: New England

I was going to pick knitting until I saw writing. I really do love to write the best. Blogs, journals, lists, emails, you name it. I do a ton of peronal writing at home, and luckily I have the chance to write technical articles at work, and I also have to write papers and essyas for school. . .I guess it's a good thing I enjoy it so much b/c I'm knee-deep in it.

I've realized that I kind of think in terms of writing. . .like, in my brain, when I form thoughts, it's more like seeing words written out on a page to myself. Or sometimes I'll be walking around campus, narrating a little story in my head about people around me.

xuli · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:41 am Post subject:

baltica · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 135 Location: portland, or

Knitting, for sure. It's only in the past couple of years that I've felt this way, as I really got into learning different stitches, more complicated projects, etc. And I still have a lot to learn and many experiments I want to try, so it keeps me interested!

I used to really enjoy writing, but I'm not really inspired anymore. I do technical writing as a large part of my job, so maybe that's part of the problem. Maybe I need to take a creative writing class to get the juices flowing again.

Athos · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 446 Location: San Francisco

i can't even vote. i honestly love all these crafts so much. and calligraphy, playing music, throwing parties. all of that, too. ; )

shawneemonkey · Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 161

too...
many...
choices...

heh.
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little danielley · Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Long Beach, CA

that's a tough one, hmmm. crocheting, cardmaking, quilling, sewing, embroidering....do I have to pick just one?

paperandglue · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 5 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

I picked knitting because it's my favourite craft at the moment. I've only been doing it for two months so I'm in the honeymoon phase. I've been sewing, embroidering, cooking, baking, and making paper crafts for far longer but knitting has proved incredibly addicting. I think the main reason for that is the fact that I can do it in more places. In boring lectures, in front of the TV, on the bus, in waiting rooms. Plus it's super relaxing and incredibly gratifying!

Katrin · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

Of the ones listed, I like knitting and sewing equally - I picked knitting because I'm currently working on a knitting project in order to procrastinate on a sewing one.

My favorite crafts usually involve my seeing stuff about to go into the garbage and yelling "Don't throw that away! I could MAKE something out of it!"

susan*s · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 99 Location: Portland, OR

I picked decoupage because that's the last craft I did (I made a glossy tissue-paper-covered candleholder yesterday), but my absolute all-time favorite, not on the list, is jewelrymaking... I love it.

It's hard to pick just one though! I can think of six, easily, that would tie for a close second :)
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