Most unusual craft?

Double wow! The zebra! The balls! The quilt! All fantastic. Well done all you crafty crafters.

Ok, now I am seriously sick with ?!

I love the temari balls!

I know patchwork isn’t an unusual craft but here’s a quilt I made out of my OHs old work shirts, the plain colours were white shirts I dyed.

Yep. Wow, ga. Well done that son

Here's a photo of some of my temari:

grannyactivist - wow.

Grey duster, you have inspired me I think. Have a box of my DS's outdated clothing he wants kept. He is big on up cycling as he calls it. Could I use tshirts ie knitted cotton or must it be woven. What size of rug have you made? Thank you.

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I don't have an artistic bone in my body , so where my son gets it from I have no idea, but he is amazing. He is a design engineer by profession and he knits (often his own designs), crochets, does different kinds of pottery, and his origami is more like paper engineering. The zebra head is lifesize and the pottery dog he made as a gift for his sister.
Would others like to put photo's up too please, so that us non-crafty people can enjoy seeing the fruits of others' labour? I love to get hand-made things and think that something was made just for me.

The trouble with any craft is what to do with the object you have made. Ok, you can hang a picture on the wall or wear something knitted or crocheted, but with most crafts you end up with a load of things you have enjoyed making but now don't know what to do with. I was inspired by someone on GN who said she had bought a starter jewellery making kit and I put one in my Amazon basket but then I thought, what would I do with the jewellery I made? Could I sell it and, if so, how? Someone above sells leatherwork on an American website? How does that work? How do you find a website that will take your stuff?

What do others do with their completed craft work?

Oh my! l've never heard of temari balls, but they're beautiful! l need to try that!

I do sewing and upholstery. Have covered all the armchairs and the setter in the sitting room, and just finished a coat. Can't knit or crochet, don't think I could follow the patterns!

Well, I am getting out quite a lot at the moment - but not to do craft, rather to eat

I'd never heard of tamari balls, so unusual. I might give that a go!

I have done allsorts of crafts over the years but nothing unusual. Knitting , crochet, scrapbooking ,cardmaking, cross stitch, embroidery ,watercolour painting all stopped for now but am spending time doing rock painting with my little grandchildren where we paint and varnish them and then hide somewhere for others to find.

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I really need to get put more too! The temari balls are great. Don't think I could make one as good, lol. Needle felting looks lovely and needle tatting looks intricate. It is great to hear what others do and are keeping the old crafts going. The mosaics course sounds interesting, in fact all crafts are interesting! Its a shame we can't do everything.......

i do needle felting, only good at doing fairy's at the moment and i do like to sew, so new year i will have to do more of that .

An early New Year resolution is to try needle felting. I've spent far too much time watching the tutorials on YouTube, I'm sure its not as easy as they make it look, but I'm going to give it a go. I think I'll start small with flowers, to perhaps make brooches and after that.... owls?... penguins?Or will it join the other craft stuff in the 'Abandoned Cupboard'?

I have die cutting machine I use for papercraft and also vinyl , both on items and on clothing .

We used to stick shells on to plant pots years ago!
DH made pictures out of matchsticks many aeons ago but we don't have any now.

Off to do my boring knitting

I made seashell pictures many years ago I wish I'd kept one as they turned out very pretty. Now it's usually knitting.

Gosh, I just looked them up! They are fantastic!

Baggs wins this one hands down. She makes temari balls (I think that's what they're called) ...

bella - I love hearing about crafts that others do too. I'm needle tatting when arthritic fingers permit.
Various small items including 3 handkerchief edgings completed, as well as more flippin' snowflakes for ambitious table cover tray cloth.
I ring the changes with a bit of knitting, cross-stitch & a lot of natter!

I really need to get out more