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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 07:22 PM Feb 2012

What creative things do you like to do? Though I have not done it in a while, I love sewing. I just

wish I was good at it. I also once made a canopy for my bed using cheesecloth. I sewed tiny little silver glitter beads onto it. I have no talent for fin work but I enjoy the process.

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What creative things do you like to do? Though I have not done it in a while, I love sewing. I just (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2012 OP
I just bought a sewing machine and I am loving it. cbayer Feb 2012 #1
Riflesmithing I build replicas of mid 1700 to mid 1800 oneshooter Feb 2012 #2
Digital darkroom. Photography. Moondog Feb 2012 #3
All kinds of needlework... pipi_k Feb 2012 #4
I LOVE doing what you folks see me doing purt near every day!!! MiddleFingerMom Feb 2012 #5
Lately, I've been designing LOLcats graywarrior Feb 2012 #6
I've been doing counted cross stitch for years. peacefreak Feb 2012 #7
I had to look up what blackwork is. Moondog Feb 2012 #8
Typical lady stuff HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #9
I used to paint, mostly watercolors. femmocrat Feb 2012 #10

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. I just bought a sewing machine and I am loving it.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:49 PM
Feb 2012

My impetus was that I bought fabric on a recent trip.

I made pillows first - very easy. Now I am going to try for some simple clothes - scoop neck shirt and some drawstring pants.

Went to a fabric store for the first time in forever yesterday and had a blast looking through the pattern catalogs.

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
2. Riflesmithing I build replicas of mid 1700 to mid 1800
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:52 PM
Feb 2012

Longrifles. Mainly in flintlock but a few percussion. Silver wire inlay, carved stocks, silver and brass engraved patchboxes. Take me a year or so per rifle.

Oneshooter

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
4. All kinds of needlework...
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 09:05 PM
Feb 2012

Embroidery...needlepoint...cross stitch...crochet...knitting...sewing

I tried watercolor for a while but there are so many different techniques I couldn't decide on just one for each picture I painted and I sort of gave up in frustration.

I started building a log cabin dollhouse from a kit a few years back but didn't finish. It's out in the shed where we put a lot of our stuff when we were trying to sell the house back in 2010.

I've built a few plastic models...two or three Cutty Sark ships and a couple of vintage cars.

When I was a child I would snag old cracker boxes and turn them into little miniature houses, complete with lighting (a "C" or "D" battery, paper clip, and tiny flashlight bulb). Rugs from pieces of cloth...wallpaper from scraps of paper...furniture from cardboard.





HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
9. Typical lady stuff
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 10:31 PM
Feb 2012

Embroider, knit, crochet, tatting is my latest. I also scrapbook and make greeting cards. I went through a period of jewelry-making but then I made so much I could never wear all of them so I stopped. I'm not creative but I'm ok at following directions. That's why I don't paint or sculpt. My nearly 40-year-old hobby is genealogy, but that's research and not actually "creative".

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