FAQ/Help |
Calendar |
Search |
Today's Posts |
![]() |
#31 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
Well the quilting is coming along nicely as a new hobby, other than waiting for my mom to finish cutting things out
![]() ![]() I've been a lot happier after finding something I can do, and my DH is happy that I've commandeered our spare room as my sewing room so he doesn't come home to the old mess across the kitchen table and floor from any other time my mom and I have gotten together to sew. I just hope I don't start getting bored with the whole thing, not especially worried on the sampler quilt as there's something different pretty much every day with it, but when I'm back to baskets and scotty dogs, I might be in trouble of boredom setting in once more. Okay not so much with the scotty dogs LOL, it's for my sister and kind of an inside joke, since when I was six I had a red white and blue scotty dog shirt that I always wore with my red and gold plaid jumper, my sister hated it because "she" said they clashed, I rationalized it as what else would scotty dogs wear if not plaid... duh! My favorite outfit and the one she most despised of all the things I ever wore. So we're making her a very clashy plaid scotty dog quilt for Christmas heheheheheh..... and no it wasn't my idea but my mothers ![]() ![]() I like polka dots, checks and stripes all together... she's more the solid neutrals kind of person, I liked GI Joes, she liked Barbie (I liked storming the giant Barbie stronghold with the GI Joes ![]() She scrubs her house top to bottom before company comes over and then annoyingly tells them to not mind the mess... I swipe the cat hair off the chair while they're standing there and tell folks not to mind the mess ![]() Really if not for liking the Beatles which my brother does too (When I'm Sixty-Four was his wedding march). I'd wonder if she was even related to any of us by blood. ![]() ![]() Oh well, back to working on my paper pieced stars, and hopefully maintaining my sanity till I finish all 9 blocks.
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (07-06-2017) |
![]() |
#32 | |||
|
||||
Wise Elder
|
There is so much you can do with quilting. I have a friend who traveled the world teaching fabric arts. She's a well known fabric artist and has tons of quilting designs that you can buy. Her quilts are amazing! They are like looking at a painting but instead of paint she used fabric. So, I don't think you'll get bored in terms of lack of design options, but maybe lose interest in sewing. Post pictures of your masterpiece!
|
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#33 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
One 8 point star down, 8 more of the finicky little things to go. And I've still not decided if I love em or hate em yet lol. But mind numbing sewing they are not that much is for sure
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (07-13-2017) |
![]() |
#34 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
My DH is letting me get a new toy!!!! I'm getting one of the cricut wireless cutters. I'm sooo excited!!! I'm waiting to see if it pops up on Prime Days with Amazon, and if so then I'll get it at a bargain price and if not then at 3 am on the 12th, I'm ordering it!
I don't know if there's any other really crafty folks on here, but this thing will cut through so many different things! It does vellum, leather, fabric (including denim), felt, paper, balsa wood, corkboard, aluminum. It can emboss copper plating, I mean soooo many things it can do, which then means sooooo many things I can do. ![]() Primarily I'm getting it to give my mom a break from cutting quilts so she can actually enjoy sewing some. But I really see myself picking up some balsa wood and having fun making little things out of it, and maybe a copper plate or two, and some leather, definitely some contact paper to make my own wall decals (those things are ridiculously expensive for an oversized sticker), and making up stencils too, and some stamps!! Decidedly bored no more ![]()
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (07-13-2017) |
![]() |
#35 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
Well one last hobby to give a whirl in addition to the quilting, just to ensure I really don't get bored with simply sewing. I'm going to try my hand at making my own area rug doing gobelin embroidery on netting. No worries if you haven't a clue as to what that is... I only discovered it tonight looking at antique patterns
![]() But basically you take a large blunt needle, and some very fine to fine yarn/threads and you just do a darning stitch around latch hook canvas. And what you should end up with is a Victorian era knock off of an oriental type rug. A very dense, rug with an almost embroidered design. It's ideal to at least make an attempt on since the needle should be quite large giving me more to grip than using a tiny embroidery needle and it's going on a very open and stiff netting so there won't be any tiny holes that I'm trying to line up. Furthermore the darning stitch is basically just filling in the blanks in a straight line. And with 3.75 canvas and baby weight yarn it should take only about 5-6 passes around to fill in my squares, and I can use any cross stitch pattern out there that will fit to the "grid" so to speak, in that if my grid size is 125 x 225 then that's the size cross-stitch, filet or embroidery pattern is that I need (give or take depending on borders going around). So in about a week or two, hopefully I'll have enough done on it to show ya'll, I'm really looking forward to have yet another thing to keep my hands and mind busy. Plus my new toy too, so yeah, my DH might end up being upset with me when the CC bills come in ![]() ![]()
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (07-13-2017) |
![]() |
#36 | |||
|
||||
Wise Elder
|
Wow!!! You're on a roll! They star looks great! I have never been into quilting but looking at your start has me thinking. Just thinking, not planning.
![]() A Cricut! You are so lucky! I've seen how they work on a few YouTube videos. They look amazing! That certainly will help you with all the cutting. There are tons of things you can do with those machines. Enjoy it! |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | Starznight (07-13-2017) |
![]() |
#37 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
It's like my body knew what was coming, my knee went backwards today, collapsed itself in a full backwards bend, that is rather than bending toward the toes it bent towards the heels.. completely, like I was taking a step in reverse from the knee. Let me tell you, I have felt some pain in my life, massive shock inducing, pass out-wake me up when it is over pain, and nothing at all to date in my life has compared to having a knee go backwards like that. And i didn't hit it or anything, I was standing but not walking when it happened, the muscles jerked the knee went backwards and all I saw was white for about 3 seconds before the world went dark on me. When I came too, the knee was swollen about twice it's normal size and the muscles still kept pulling at it trying to force it backwards again.
When the DH got home he got my knee brace out for me, it's hinged so it won't let it go backwards or sideways, and lots of ice. But I imagine I'm going to be a couch potato for at least a few weeks now till whatever gave way in there can heal up. But I got my cricut today to play with and still have quilts to make so I'll be busy even while keeping one leg propped up and iced down. My mom said I just wanted to get out of all the ironing involved with making quilts... I'm not gonna lie when I say I'm not exactly crying over the ironing ![]()
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#38 | ||
|
|||
Member
|
And found yet another craft I can still accomplish... though really only just learned about an hour ago after finding some tatting needles I bought ages ago, always meant to learn it but never got around to it. Then I feared I wouldn't be able to learn it but I wanted to try the bigger needles for doing my rug. (Still need to make it to the store for yarn on that...) but since I don't have the yarn to do that yet I figured why not... looked up the directions and my gosh is it ever easy to do even without having decent hand control... (I did modify the thread "grip" to fit with what I could do, versus what the directions say to do)
But in an hour I learned how to make picots, rings, chains and split rings... and there's really nothing else to learn, it's all just one stitch (really more of simply making knots) And unlike knitting or crocheting it is super forgiving when it comes to tension, really, really forgiving, just not forgiving to pulling the wrong string ![]() Below is my hours worth progression ![]()
__________________
Side Effects: may cause dizziness, drowsiness, bleeding from the brain, heart explosions, alternate realities, brain spasms, and in rare cases temporary symptoms of death may occur. |
||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#39 | |||
|
||||
Grand Magnate
|
Quote:
![]() I find the Memory Lane has many exciting and warm feelings yet to be discovered. ![]() |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | Starznight (07-16-2017) |
![]() |
#40 | |||
|
||||
Elder
|
I've done needle tatting too!! I even still have my tatting needles!
I bought a needle tatting book back in the very late 90's. Taught myself how to do it, tatted for a few months until I got bored with it. It did always look like single crochet stitches to me. I looked, and found a crochet pattern book/leaflet that had patterns with a "tatted look" for doilies. They were all single crochet stitches. I think I have the book/leaflet around here somewhere.
__________________
~ Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics. ~ Author Unknown ~ ~ "Animals have two functions in society. To taste good and to fit well." ~ Greg Proops, actor ~ |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
"Thanks for this!" says: | Starznight (07-16-2017) |
Reply |
|
|
![]() |
||||
Thread | Forum | |||
What hobbies do you enjoy ? | The Stumble Inn | |||
hobbies | Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Concussion Syndrome | |||
Hobbies . . .What are yours? | The Stumble Inn | |||
Radio Hobbies | Computers and Technology | |||
What hobbies have you been able to do with RSD/ CRPS?? | Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD and CRPS) |