Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - "WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?"

[N F C]

View attachment 1588633 View attachment 1588637 My only other non bird related hobby that I currently participate in is crocheting. I’m a beginner in that one As well with only a few projects under my belt. I’m teaching myself using you tube videos. I made a couple of mermaid tails for my granddaughters and a baby blanket with my niece. I’ve learned something f with each project. I tried to do a shrug but failed miserably so added ruffles to the ends and call it a lap blanket.

Nice work!

 

[Blooie]

View attachment 1588633 View attachment 1588637 My only other non bird related hobby that I currently participate in is crocheting. I’m a beginner in that one As well with only a few projects under my belt. I’m teaching myself using you tube videos. I made a couple of mermaid tails for my granddaughters and a baby blanket with my niece. I’ve learned something f with each project. I tried to do a shrug but failed miserably so added ruffles to the ends and call it a lap blanket.

I love accidental “Hey, this is kinda cool, though” things. I was crocheting a lap blanket following a YouTube video pattern that I hadn’t tried before and it was coming along nicely. But somewhere along the line I messed up the pattern and I didn’t wanna unravel 2 or 3 rows to fix it. So I just pretended it was supposed to be like that, did a little creative decreasing every time I came to that spot, and made an armhole out of it. It was kinda to one side, not in the center. When it was done I had a blanket with a hole about 3/4 of the way up and off to the side. Hubby asked me what I was gonna do with it. But I had plans for it.

Next time we went back to South Dakota I gave it to my sister, who was undergoing dialysis 3 x a week. She was always cold in there, but couldn’t be completely covered so they could access her port and get her wired up for monitoring. That accidental arm hole made that blanket Linda’s “dialysis woobie” and she took it to every procedure. It covered her completely (she was only 4’11”), just her one arm with her access stuck out. She loved it, the staff loved it, and I loved it because it made someone I loved deeply so happy! And it continues to do so. Linda’s little granddaughter Ashley was diagnosed with leukemia at 6 years old. Linda was determined to live to see Ash ring her last chemo bell, and she did. Ashley still has to go in for regular testing, and now she snuggles down in “Grammy’s Woobie”, her little arm suck through that hole for her blood draws.

Never worry if something doesn’t come out just right. Sometimes a goof makes it just righter!

 

[dpenning]

I love accidental “Hey, this is kinda cool, though” things. I was crocheting a lap blanket following a YouTube video pattern that I hadn’t tried before and it was coming along nicely. But somewhere along the line I messed up the pattern and I didn’t wanna unravel 2 or 3 rows to fix it. So I just pretended it was supposed to be like that, did a little creative decreasing every time I came to that spot, and made an armhole out of it. It was kinda to one side, not in the center. When it was done I had a blanket with a hole about 3/4 of the way up and off to the side. Hubby asked me what I was gonna do with it. But I had plans for it.

Next time we went back to South Dakota I gave it to my sister, who was undergoing dialysis 3 x a week. She was always cold in there, but couldn’t be completely covered so they could access her port and get her wired up for monitoring. That accidental arm hole made that blanket Linda’s “dialysis woobie” and she took it to every procedure. It covered her completely (she was only 4’11”), just her one arm with her access stuck out. She loved it, the staff loved it, and I loved it because it made someone I loved deeply so happy! And it continues to do so. Linda’s little granddaughter Ashley was diagnosed with leukemia at 6 years old. Linda was determined to live to see Ash ring her last chemo bell, and she did. Ashley still has to go in for regular testing, and now she snuggles down in “Grammy’s Woobie”, her little arm suck through that hole for her blood draws.

Never worry if something doesn’t come out just right. Sometimes a goof makes it just righter!

I LOVE that story! I don't worry if it doesn't come out right.... i just keep on keeping on!

 

[perchie.girl]

Never worry if something doesn’t come out just right. Sometimes a goof makes it just righter!

Sooo true.....

 

[Birdsong 82]

Restarted an old hobby I had into new hobby MACRAME!!!

 

[Birdsong 82]

Hobby #2 my true passion... GARDENING!!!

 

[N F C]

View attachment 1589500 View attachment 1589501 View attachment 1589502 View attachment 1589503 View attachment 1589504 View attachment 1589505 Hobby #2 my true passion... GARDENING!!!

Your garden is lovely!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

But....but.....I didn’t get to talk about my knitting, and crocheting, and playing guitar, banjo and mandolin and ukelin, and photographing hummingbirds, and cooking, and chickening, and learning about helping with disabilities, and teaching adult literacy, and all that stuff......

Okay, okay, three it is. But next year, watch out!!!

LMAO Blooie I would love to see more and hear more!! share please!! I thought of you when I seen this today

 

[Sally Sunshine]

View attachment 1589500 View attachment 1589501 View attachment 1589502 View attachment 1589503 View attachment 1589504 View attachment 1589505 Hobby #2 my true passion... GARDENING!!!

That is one impressive garden!! Thank you so much for sharing, love the ladder trellis!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Any crafters make things for Hospice like lap blankets or hospitals. like pillow cases for kids or hats for cancer patients etc? I wish I had time to get involved with something like that, and that my hands could crochet for long periods too. I often thought of making the pillow cases for kids because they made such an impact on my kids when they were hospitalized, they still use them <3 I wish I could talk Harmony into sewing some. She is into way too much though hmmm in writing I wonder if a sewing for kids could be the next night out with the girls, like those painting parties