| Crafty Hobbies [message #533] |
Fri, 27 October 2006 07:33  |
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Looking through some of the interests listed by the members on this forum, I'm surprised to see that there's a lot of creative crafts mentioned. Personally I'm a yarn craft enthusiast and although I don't knit that well, I love to crochet since learning a couple of years ago.
I find the repetitive action soothing and I love all the different colours and yarns. I'm interested to hear how others unwind from a day in front of the screen as its clear we're not just geeks 
Lorna Mitchell (online at http://www.lornajane.net)
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #535 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Fri, 27 October 2006 08:58  |
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I do not have any "crafty" habits - actually I kinda stink at all of them - though I did do cross stitch for a while (kinda went to the way side when other "more important" things came up). The one thing that I have always done, made time for, and even had a doctor tell me to do was reading (fiction, nonfiction, mystery, fantasy, romance - makes no difference as long as it is interesting). And I don't mean technical books  It is my major down time and stress releiver - my ME time. Husband and kid know after all this time that when I am in a book, to get my attention, they usually need to touch me since I will never hear them.
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #544 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Fri, 27 October 2006 17:29 |
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I try to make time for painting and jewelry making - those are my favorite crafty hobbies.
I, too am making my son's Halloween costume - super easy Lego Block, but of course I haven't finished yet (4 days left, yikes!)
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #556 is a reply to message #555 ] |
Sun, 29 October 2006 17:04 |
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Hi Lorna,
She just made dresses to see if her cut was ok. What she did was this: they would give her several drawings of the dress, and the material to make it from, and they would talk about it. Then she would draw all the pieces of the dress on paper. These pieces of paper are then used to pin on the material so you know what pieces to cut out of the material to make the dress. Her model was used to make the dresses they'd sell in their shops. That's why she was so good at making everything I sketched! In the fashionindustry ther must be a word for this, but I wouldn't know.
I don't think my friends will pick up knitting, and from what I've seen, I understand: they need all their attention to knit! I can knit with my eyes closed if needed, I watch tv, have a conversation or even read the newspaper while knitting. For me it's something that comes and goes: some winters I knit a small suitcase full of stuff and then for years I knit nothing, not even repair a sock 
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #725 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 00:24 |
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Every year around this time I spend 2 days at one of the growing number of excellent urban crafts fairs in the U.S., this one in San Francisco (kpfa.org/craftsfair), it's a juried exhibition of crafters from all over Northern California: knitting and other textiles, glass, pottery, paper, photography, toys, body products, jewelry, sculpture ... I feel a familiarity when I meet these crafters, a kinship. They work at home, they are enormously creative, they start and see projects through and fuss over every detail, they sit in their homes or their studios with patience and perseverance, they are architects, planners, designers, they thrive and race and take different angles, try new things. I am not surprised that a developer is also drawn to crafts. It is all craft.
Knitting is way cool in some parts of the U.S., there is a thriving counterculture which loves crafts and hand made things, they have books about how cool knitting is at chain bookstores... go figure..
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #872 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Thu, 11 January 2007 23:16 |
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I came across this magazine when I was looking for something, and I thought it was especially interesting because it's created by the editors of MAKE Magazine... it's called (appropriately enough) CRAFT and it's definitely different.
Just thought I'd pass it along...
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #888 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Sat, 20 January 2007 15:13 |
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Has anyone ever bought or sold anything from Etsy.com? It's kind of like an eBay for handmade items only - it's a pretty cool site, you should check it out if you haven't already.
I was thinking of selling some of my jewelry on there, but I was curious if anyone had any experience with it.
http://www.etsy.com
(yes, and they get bonus points for doing their site in PHP)
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #1016 is a reply to message #1008 ] |
Mon, 12 February 2007 19:37 |
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Daynah! Hey there fellow PHP Builder-er How you been?
I love your scrapbook pages - geez, they make mine look like a second grader did them...HA HA!
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #1779 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Thu, 17 January 2008 06:18 |
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I have a niece and I like to knit for her - if only because the projects are a manageable size! Knitting for myself takes far too long since I rarely seem to find the time (I've been knitting the same fingerless glove for three months!), but I like little projects such as the amigurumi critters that are around so much at the moment.
Lorna Mitchell (online at http://www.lornajane.net)
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| Re: Crafty Hobbies [message #2604 is a reply to message #533 ] |
Tue, 10 March 2009 04:42 |
Casablanca
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I'm just beginning to learn more on my crafty hobbies which is baking, i'm not able to put more time on this because i'm working on a regular job, so I just find time doing this during my day off. But i really want improve my craft on baking since I really love foods and added to that I enjoy it.
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