How often do you try new things.

Cariadagain .
There are times when I regard being creative a nuisance !
Today was another day when I had to force myself to tidy up !
I would rather have made some Christmas cards and jewellery.
It's why I really need a studio so that the rest of the house is tidy .
If I'm not making stuff then I'm writing books in my head.
I have memories of going on holiday with my grandmother and staying in very old fashioned hotels with a lot of ladies.
They thought that I was incredibly well behaved as I sat hour after hour listening to them chatting .
In reality I'd switched off and was making up stories or actually drawing them on imaginary paper with my toes !

I tried needlefelting recently and it was surprisingly easy. Much less complicated than it looks. I have absolutely no artistic ability, but you just follow the instructions and it works.

I am also learning a new language over the winter. And beyond, of course - I don't expect to get fluent in a couple of weeks .

I do try new things quite often. I like to have something to do most days in the winter, as they can drag otherwise. I am trying not to put the TV on before dark (which gets earlier every day, of course) as it's all too easy to become less selective about what to watch, and just put it on when it's cold and rainy outside.

The trouble with crafts is that I don't want a lot of the things you can make😂. I knit jumpers, which is fine as we can wear them, but I don't want to fill the house with pasta collages or felted frogs . The odd Christmas decoration is one thing, but there is a limit. I do embroidery and cross stitch, but again, unless I want to be surrounded by stitched artwork (which I don't) there is always the question of what to do with the results.

I'm envious of people who are good at craft type activities - as I'm useless at them. I'm the one known for drawing trees that looked like lollipops or being "obvious dunce of the class" when trying out an evening class in pottery one time. Can't dressmake. Can't knit. Oh well - someone has got to be useless at these things imo - to provide an appreciative audience for people who can do these things.

Does cooking count? Gotta be creative - and well I do need to eat. Now that I'm not bad at - thankfully. I have had to do a LOT of experimenting with that over the years - as I was brought up on a diet that was restricted even by 1950s standards. So ever since then = you name it and I'll probably try it re any foods I come across that I've not tried yet (provided it doesn't include meat - as I don't eat that). I'll try new foods...I'll try new recipes with "existing" foods. I'd say probably around 90% of what I eat daily is foods and/or recipes I tried out for myself in the first place and I have noticed other people asking me what something is or how to eat it if they don't know - so I must have picked up a noticeable amount of knowledge on that over the years. Absolute first thing I'm doing at any meal out is to see if there's anything I haven't tried yet or trying to work out new ways of eating "existing" foods.

My mind is always bursting with creative ideas .
The only thing that holds me back is lack of space .
I might have a studio built - finances allowing .

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We are getting ready to embark on a small road trip. I always take lots of little things to do while out, but hubby's main thing has been whining about anything and everything.

So since he won't find things to take, I have started packing stuff just for him. His paints, so he won't whine about me spending time with mine, a metal detector, a few sticks to whittle, and a sign for him to post on the front of our van for chess game challenges, 2 new books and I am getting his ball games sent to his computer. I am hopeful.

mum2three

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?

Sounds like time to quilt something.

I think that there is science to support the idea that learning something new is good for older brains.
I have returned to knitting after many years, and started Sudoku in lockdown, but my toughest assignment has been tackling a new language on Duolingo.
Maybe one day I will get the hang of it...

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!

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.

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'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 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.

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.

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

@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...

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.

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!

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

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 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.

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?

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 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!

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.