Hobby talk

[itsmechrissy]

I think i mentioned that my main hobby is making pottery, I totally love it but I work full time and this time of the year it seems the yard/garden take up so much time and then (of course) I still like to play in other crafting...I really wish i could quit working but gotta pay the mortgage.

Anyway, when I have scraps of clay I make beads out of them, here are pics of some of my beads (not the best pictures but you get the gist):

 

[Kassaundra]

katsdar, I used to do embroidery also, I have a few "phd's" (projects half done) in that department also. I got a few of them for Christmas, but couldn't work on them when Julia (she's 13) was a baby...she wanted to play with my thread!

And I would have a tangled mess. Now that she's older maybe I can get my stuff back out.....and try to remember where I left off.
I don't have room for a sewing machine yet... but DH said when we get the new house built he is going to add a separate room for my crafting...I will finally have storage!!!!

I'm branching out with my crocheting, and experimenting with crocheting beads in my projects. I'll post pictures if I like how they turn out.

I have a doctorate (or higher) in phd's!!!!!! lol lol lol

 

[dewdropsinwv]

LOL I know the feeling katsdar!!!! It seems like when I start a project something happens and I just cant get it finished.... really irritates me too.

 

[katsdar]

I love the pottery art very pretty, in high school we did pottery and when my kids were little I use to go to a pottery class but that was all molded stuff and most already fired.

thats funny I will tell my DH that I now have a doctorate and I need more money to pay off the loans.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Oh Kat, he will LOVE that.... lol I have tubs of yarn all over my bedroom!!!!! Need an organizer for all my stuff

Yes the beads are very pretty!!!! I'm going to start working with mine tomorrow and se how it goes. I'll keep you all posted on my progress. Be ready for some frustration posts

 

[itsmechrissy]

PHD too funny... not only do I have a PHD for my crafting but the hub could say he has one for his home improvements ..lol

 

[sianara]

Hi, sorry about the gkid, just took it for granted,

I just knew you'd be knocked out before them. I love all the crafts posted, see I just am not a crafty person, I can't come up with the ideas like the Christmas wreath wrapped in a boa, how smart and your Halloween wreath so pretty . I can't crochet either, wish I could. There are some really pretty crocheted ornament I'd love to have on my tree

Check out YouTube for videos on crocheting and follow along. When I was adding more complicated knitting stitches to my repertoire it was VERY helpful.

 

[sianara]

Wow how wonderful all those gkids and more to come, I just love babies and mine have not even started, the youngest of the kids is 25 and he is not interested yet, he's the one in the Navy and is career focused, maybe when they do start they won't stop

but they have to get married first, darn no gkids in my near future, step son is 30, I don't see wife or kids in his future, he has a girl but he doesn't want a wife or kids, I don't know. I shouldn't have stopped at 2 kids myself oh well no do overs here

I remember now you are in the ornament swap, I know itsmechrissy is too, last year I made quilted ornaments if you join again maybe we will be picked for each other to swap and I'll make you one, they are no sew and fast to make. you had me but I didn't have you. My Christmas tree is all handmade ornaments of some sort and hallmark. But I have yet to receive my first crocheted ornament I keep hoping the luck of the draw will come someday!!! Itsmechrissy you should give your sewing machine another try, check your bobbin is in properly and if you didn't leave in a pin and try and sew over it I'd check bobbin and threading of your machine, needles shouldn't break if pins aren't involved, tho I do sew over my pins!! but then I do have a stash of machine needles, oh and check to make sure your machine needle is in correctly, I did that once took my machine into to be checked because it just wasn't doing right, yeah needle was in backwards.

If you'd like to have each other for a swap, I can do that when picking names as long you agree to do 2-3 ornaments total. This way there will still be plenty of mixing up names so everyone isn't getting the same people. We can try it for aug/sept if you want, just let me know in the new thread when I post it ok? BTW love the quilt and the beads and other pottery plus the wreath and crocheted items. I have only made a doll quilt for my daughter when she was 8 (now 21). I'm not much of a sewer sadly.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Well after going threw every single picture on the home computer, it looks like I'm going to have to re-take a lot of crafting pictures and make a special folder for them. I have searched the entire picture gallery, computer and where ever I could think of and can not find all the ones I would like to post. So I have a new task at hand.