How often do you try new things.

Well yes. Always try new recipes. Just about to have a book published… something I never ever thought about before. Always up for trying new things…people also.

I still have a lino print making kit that I bought after doing a one day course and getting carried away with my own enthusiasm. It’s still in its box. I’m sure I’ll get round to it - one day…..

Quite often. I have a go.

Greyduster I loved Lino printing. Still got a scar on my arm where the Lino tool slipped .

I’ve got a Kirigami pack,still neatly boxed. And I buy material for curtains and quilts for windows and beds that I haven’t got.

Is it a recipe book? I have a few stories I have written down and think yea one day......

Just do it craftycat

I cant do crafts but I do try to jazz things up in our life now and again (not that, naughty) with booking up tickets for things, trying new restaurants that kind of thing.

I love trying new things.
I recently went onto YouTube and taught myself how to do star stitch in crochet. About a year back I started putting together poetry and now I am trying to put together a book and hope to get it published in the future.
I knit dog blankets for charity and like to incorporate a different stitch in them.
I also need to get back to my ukulele which I started to learn around 3 years ago.
Just do it!

Do something new everyday. It's a motto I don't always stick to but I like to get out of my comfort zone every now and again.

Yesterday I made Brownies- haven't baked anything much for years, does that classify as new?

I enjoy trying out new things with fabric. I keep meaning to buy one of Jenny Raiment's books and experiment with different techniques. What to do with all these samples is the next thing. Sew them all together and make a wall-hanging perhaps?

I will try a new recipe now and then, but as regards crafts, I’m usually too busy with knitting for a charity to bother with anything else. I did try crochet once or twice, but couldn’t get the hang of it quickly enough.

The sewing machine does come out now and then for the odd project (e.g. I made a knitting needle roll out of a remnant and a padded cover for a new step stool) or the occasional alteration.

PS, but I have fairly recently learned via good old YouTube, to do mattress stitch (for sewing up knitting) and Swiss darning, but only because they were essential for current projects.

I love trying new things. But I'm not very good. Last year I failed to get into crochet, diamond art and cross-stitch.

I love craft things, just for my own pleasure, nothing very advanced. I especially like something crafty over the winter months when I feel a bit more stuck inside. I've done a few cross stitch kits and now I'm suddenly inspired to make a crochet blanket for my son for his 30th birthday - it's a sort of temperature blanket of his birthdate for the last 30 years, if that makes sense. I've not done crochet since I did a baby blanket when I was pregnant with his older sister, so this is a big project for me. I've bought the wool and had a practice doing treble...I have 4 months to get it done!

My daughter taught herself to crochet from You tube and makes amazing things.
I’m doing lots of crewel embroidery and after lots of basic stitches I’m trying new ones. It makes any craft more interesting to try new variations and the results are much more impressive. It’s also very true that practice makes perfect.

@watermeadow I've been watching YouTube as well, it's so easy watching someone explain and do it at the same time, then I watch it again, pause it, watch it again, repeat...

muckandnettles

@watermeadow I've been watching YouTube as well, it's so easy watching someone explain and do it at the same time, then I watch it again, pause it, watch it again, repeat...

I am watching a few things on You tube too makes me (not always right) think I can do something I never thought I could

Still doing my cross stitch but I am going to have a go a designing some Christmas mugs. I asked the seller on Etsy where I buy my mugs if they are doing Christmas ones. They said no but if I design what I want they will make them . So I am going to use Gelli printing and come up with something. I can't draw . Got some flowers and leaves drying and will cut out Christmas shapes. And see if I can come up with something.

I have just started sketching, doodling and zentangle art and I have surprised myself by (even though I do admit it!) becoming very good at it. Some of my friends family have complimented me by saying my work is better than the online teachers. I am so pleased but very sorry I didn't take this up years ago - I love it.

I've been through phases of drawing, knitting and cross stitch.

I've enjoyed trying new things when making jewellery - peyote, beaded spiders, knitted wire and miniature origami.

Newatthis sounds like you're having fun. I love looking at zentangle on pinterest.

I don’t mind trying new recipes, but as far as art and music are concerned, my two passions, I don’t like to vary it too much as I feel I won’t improve. A discipline needs concentration on one thing.
I’ll try a new journey to a new place at the drop of a hat.

I got so fed up with trying to find wall art to match my colour scheme (and the cost too) that I now do my own. I paint over old canvases and use the colours that the room is decorated in. I'm currently doing a textured one for the first time where I've added polyfilla to the paint.

henetha

I love trying new things. But I'm not very good. Last year I failed to get into crochet, diamond art and cross-stitch.

I don’t know about the first two items on your list, but I do know about cross stitch. My first attempt was so awful that even my lovely, kind husband couldn’t stop laughing. It was dire! I refused to give up and eventually, having got the hang of it, decided it was the best hobby in the world!
I entered pieces in completions and won, got a couple of ‘how to do it’ articles published in craft magazines and have never looked back.,
Keep trying! It’s worth it!