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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 21, 2015 3:02:24 GMT
Wow that's great!! Love the details in his coat! You do a great job with fabrics/furs!
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 21, 2015 3:06:48 GMT
I wish I had the time/energy/space to learn quilting. There are some amazingly beautiful projects out there. Annnnd I totally feel you on the "Crap, gotta get this ready for the baby that's coming any day now!" pressure. I once knit a baby blanket that took me so long it changed recipients several times (none of them ever knew what I was planning; I figured that was safest). I finally gave it to my friend a year ago for her firstborn, and it's apparently become "the woogie", ie security blanket that the baby never wants to be without. So that's pretty awesome. But yeah, it takes me forever to finish projects, so. yeah we live in a small house, my crafts have kind of taken over! We have a second bedroom for our hobby room, but I do most of my stuff in the kitchen and dining room. My grandmother taught me to quilt when I was little. I stopped for a while, then after she died I picked it back up again and haven't stopped. I love doing it! I then taught myself to sew clothes from bought patterns, that's been fun! I have bad health issues so things take a lot longer for me to do. Knitting hurts, so it's normally a few min here and there when my hands don't hurt. Sewing and quilting take a lot out of me, so again it's slow going. But yeah normally I have to keep going relatively quick until it's done or I won't finish it. I need to work better about that!
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Post by somehussy on Feb 21, 2015 4:52:32 GMT
I do inappropriate cross stitch and I post my finished pieces on my tumblr (afussycussyhussy). I have five ongoing projects right now even though my rule is no more than two at a time.
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Post by gateau on Feb 21, 2015 17:07:48 GMT
Oooh, love the inappropriate cross stitch!
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Post by xebi on Feb 21, 2015 17:24:58 GMT
I can't get your pics to display Try this. Wow. That is amazing!
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Post by Kat2112 on Feb 21, 2015 19:50:56 GMT
I have looms. I've used one to make a Doctor scarf and fingerless gloves, which turned out nice. I have a crochet needle but I can't get past making a chain. I would love to be able to crochet, but the video tutorials aren't doing it for me.
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Post by bragandbounce on Feb 21, 2015 23:26:09 GMT
I started to learn how to knit, oh ... ten years ago, and only just decided, "Y'know, that might be a fun thing to try again," so my yarn bin has come back out and the frustrated hair-pulling has begun! It's really, really slow going for me, but dammit, I WILL end up with something to show for it if it kills me!
Anyway, if you find me on the floor, spitting mad and tangled up in yarn, feel free to laugh and take pictures -_-
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Post by tepelus on Feb 22, 2015 1:16:18 GMT
Thanks for the compliments, y'all.
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Post by jessibel on Feb 24, 2015 2:31:02 GMT
I do inappropriate cross stitch and I post my finished pieces on my tumblr (afussycussyhussy). I have five ongoing projects right now even though my rule is no more than two at a time. lol. I was trying to teach myself to cross stitch last year. I was going to stitch the c-word in red on a white background and frame it above my desk. Unfortunately my cross stitching skills are abysmal, and it never got finished. I'm trying to get around to making some felt sushi cat toys sometime this week.
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Feb 26, 2015 0:51:44 GMT
This was my first KAL, and it was kind of a weird experience. There were a lot of Kaffe fangirls in the group, and if anyone complained at all about the project, there would be those little Ravelry thrashes where people tell you you're just being ungrateful and so forth. Also, there was a lot of the equivalent of the kind of comments you find in online recipes -- you know, where people are like "I don't know why this recipe got so many positive reviews. I made it just like the instructions called for, only I substituted whole wheat flour, eliminated all but one of the eggs, and used cilantro instead of cinnamon. It tasted terrible." I laughed so hard at this because it made me think of this post. "I didn’t have any eggs, so I replaced them with a banana-chia-flaxseed pulse. It turned out terrible; this recipe is terrible." I luckily haven't really encountered many Ravelry thrashes but then I'm not really part of the groups I'm part of there. I think I've made a total of one forum post in my time there. I mainly use it as a place to store my knitting and crochet ideas so I don't forget them, or to find patterns I want to try. But I was thinking I might try to be a bigger part of the groups, mainly because my main online home might not be my online home for much longer. (Long story I really don't want to get into. Anyway. Needless to say I'm looking around at different places I can be more involved, just in case.)
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Feb 26, 2015 1:00:57 GMT
yeah we live in a small house, my crafts have kind of taken over! We have a second bedroom for our hobby room, but I do most of my stuff in the kitchen and dining room. My grandmother taught me to quilt when I was little. I stopped for a while, then after she died I picked it back up again and haven't stopped. I love doing it! I then taught myself to sew clothes from bought patterns, that's been fun! Awesome! I remember my first time working with a bought pattern to make something was when I was working in the costume department for a show and it left me in tears on the theatre floor, mainly because no one told me that if the pattern paper rips it does not actually mean I am a complete failure of a human being. Once I was informed, though, it was much easier to deal with. This was the same show where I first encountered a serger, and opened it up when it de-threaded thinking "I'll just fix this" and then had a complete nervous breakdown because looking at the innards of a serger unprepared is like staring at Cthulhu. I have bad health issues so things take a lot longer for me to do. Knitting hurts, so it's normally a few min here and there when my hands don't hurt. Sewing and quilting take a lot out of me, so again it's slow going. But yeah normally I have to keep going relatively quick until it's done or I won't finish it. I need to work better about that! I understand. My hands tend to hurt when I'm using small needles and yarn, so I try to stick to big needles and chunkier yarn (worsted or thicker). This is because I have MASSIVE hands and they do not like to contort themselves to work with the smaller stuff. Also I have texture issues, where if I touch something for too long I basically have a overstimulation meltdown and have to soak my hands in cold water for ages. It flares up with some yarns, so sometimes I can't work on projects for more than a few minutes at a time.
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Feb 26, 2015 1:04:18 GMT
I do inappropriate cross stitch and I post my finished pieces on my tumblr (afussycussyhussy). I have five ongoing projects right now even though my rule is no more than two at a time. Those are awesome. I've wanted to learn cross stitch for a while just so I can do pieces that are completely inappropriate.
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Feb 26, 2015 1:10:23 GMT
I have looms. I've used one to make a Doctor scarf and fingerless gloves, which turned out nice. I have a crochet needle but I can't get past making a chain. I would love to be able to crochet, but the video tutorials aren't doing it for me. Have you tried The Happy Hooker book from the Stitch'n'Bitch line? I don't know if it's good for teaching crochet because a) I learned when I was a kid and b) I lost my copy before I could read it, but I know that the Stitch'n'Bitch book for knitting was AMAZING for teaching me how to knit, and I recommend it to anyone wanting to learn. So there's a chance the crochet one may be just as good. I got it mainly because I wanted to see if re-learning crochet from a book could actually help me master patterns. Because I learned it all by doing when I was a kid, I have no idea how to read crochet patterns; they confuse the everloving heck out of me. So all my crochet is just made up as I go along.
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Post by gardengirl13 on Feb 26, 2015 1:50:21 GMT
texture issues? I never heard of that, but I totally know what you mean!!! If I do something too long my hands freak out. Almost like an allergy or something! I know some is allergy, like I can't use wool at all. But this is different.
I recently saw something funny about dirty cross stitching, I love that! The first one I ever did was this crazy piece. I have no clue why I chose a hard one I think it was 14 count or maybe even 16, as my first. If I had more patience I would do it more, but the dirty stuff is much more fun looking!!
I saw a bag on etsy that I want to make it's just canvas painted saying "groceries and shit", my cousin bought one recently with naked cartoons of people touching each other. It's great!!
ETA: yes I do tend to use bigger needles. That does help a lot too. I have a great scarf pattern if you want to try it. Basically use like finger thick needle size or so, I used a 10 1/2 I think, and chunky yarn. Cast on as many stitches as you want the scarf wide. The first one I made I did 14 I think. Sorry I can't remember, I've done many different sizes. Knit only the whole scarf, to about half as long as you want it. Usually it's just one full skein of chunky. Then the last row when you cast off drop every other stitch as you do it. Knot the end. Then pull all the dropped stitches down the length of the scarf. It makes it kind of lacy without having the do the harder work of knitting a lace pattern.
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Post by annie on Feb 27, 2015 9:44:32 GMT
I knit, crochet, cross-stitch, sew, draw, paint and can do some basic embroidery. I desperately want to learn how to do more intricate and detailed embroidery, but I have nerve and joint issues. I learned to sew (both by hand and on a machine), cross-stitch and crochet when I was quite young. I've been doing these things almost all of my life and it's long since been my way to cope and de-stress. But I get a lot of numbness, hypersensitivity, and stiffness in my hands, which makes it so hard to do any crafts. Add to it that when I'm in a lot of pain it can affect my vision. I've been going a little stir-crazy from not being able to craft. I can only read so many books. It's not exactly a craft, but one thing I've found as an outlet is nail art. If my hands are really bugging me I can just do one flat color (or not mess with them at all), and if I'm really needing a creative outlet I can add details and designs to each nail one-at-a-time. When I just can't do it anymore I can just stop for a while. I've never been much in to make-up or anything like that, so it seems like a weird hobby for me to have picked up, but I love it. I have so much nail polish and nail art paraphernalia right now. If you'd told me 5 years ago I'd have over 70 bottles of nail polish, several base and top coats, etc, etc, I'd have said that you don't know me very well, lol! The only major drawbacks are 1) the cost (because I keep "needing" to add more tools in order to do more techniques) and 2) my right hand is never as pretty as my left. Plus it means my yarn, thread and fabric stashes are left to collect dust, which is quite sad.
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