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i've discovered crochet foods. i can't read patterns but i've figured out how to crochet cute cupcakes and fruits. i stuffed them with cat nip from my garden and it's really cute to see the cats carry them around.

Jewelry-making -- I used both jewelry and beads in containers as decor.

Definitely screenprinting! You can see some photos of our process here:

http://visualingual.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/otrgateway-summer-celebration-poster-by-visualingual/

It's fun, it's productive, and it's just physical enough to provide a bit of exercise!

I love to sew, especially with recycled or vintage fabrics. My absolute favorite fabrics are Scandinavian. I'm working on two different silent auction items right now - a nature-inspired piece for an environmental center auction and a chocolate-inspired piece for an educational foundation event. I'm having a hard time coming up with a chocolate-y idea, though.

Readers of this blog would probably be appalled by the crafts that take over my home. I rent, so I don't have a whole lot of control over the space. I had my potters wheel in the powder room in my last apartment, with an electric kiln in the bedroom. I'm now fortunate enough to have basement access. I still have shelves lined with unglazed bisqueware in my bedroom, but I actually find that quite beautiful.

Collage - I recycle magazine pictures and use them for mixed-media collage work. My folders with snippings and my magazine stacks are standard household decor.

I wish we could select our top two or three...I picked knitting because it is what I do the most, but drawing is a close second. And right now the drawing category is looking very forlorn! I also love bookmaking, which happens to have some very aesthetically cool paraphernalia (bone folders, clips, book press, etc.).

I am always tempted to display my yarn (as in the picture above) but I am worried about it attracting dust and moths. Does anyone know if leaving yarn out like that makes it unuseable?

Whiteforest, that's really bad for your health. I started out in clay but have dabbled in many media, with my latest obsessions being beadwork and home decor sewing. Getting back to some feltmaking, also.

yes
like syllogi
i take part in many crafts
as i am sure
most responders do to
one just bleeds into the others
most projects contain at least
two of the disciplines
listed here

Multiple crafts for me, embroidery, crochet, painting and jewelry making. I have a display of my beads in small glass bottles -very colourful- but, like Syllogi, I'm afraid of displaying my yarn, because of dust.

Scrapbooking/memory books and general paper arts (collage, card making)-I love working with paper and things I have found and collected.

I love doing Origami, specially Kusudamas. What I enjoy the most is giving them to someone.

Embroidery! My mom taught me when I was young and now I've recently picked it back up again. I do it while I watch TV and don't feel like I've wasted two hours of my life. Plus they make great, cheap gifts.

I'm generally bouncing between knitting and embroidery, largely depending on the season. In the summertime, I'm always stitching some kind of design on something, but as the weather cools I move toward spending my time knitting.

Don't forget spinning yarn! I agree-most crafters often do several types of crafts. Keeps things fun and your skills up.

Whatever random projects I see on Design Sponge...Oh, and upholstery.

@ jacasi...The kiln in the bedroom possibly, but throwing in my home is not a health risk.

I've finally gotten reasonable proficient at knitting and am working on a couple of projects for upcoming baby!

Syllogi: I'm an avid knitter and while I store most of my yarn in platic containers, I do love to display certain skeins/balls in a pretty bowl on my coffee table like some gorgeous Koigu sock yarn and my favorite shades of delicious Noro wool yarns. As long as they are not in direct sunlight ( you don't want them to fade) and you don't let dust collect on them they are perfectly fine. I wash all my knitted garments so a little dust on the skeins doesn't bother me in the least.

Syllogi: I am an avid knitter and while I store most of my yarn in convenient clear plastic containers, I always have a few skeins/balls of my most favorite yarn in a pretty bowl on my coffee table. As long you don't let it sit in direct sunlight or get covered in a thick layer of dust it will be perfectly fine if you display it. For the last few months I have kept several skeins of some delicious Noro Silk Garden and some Koigu sock yarn in my display bowl and it's still good as new. You just don't want it to sit in bright light where it can fade. As far as dust goes, almost all knitted items can/should be washed so a little dust has never bothered me.

Also origami, mostly boxes. Finding a way to organize the paper is getting to be a problem. One keeps collection more and more and more ....

Right now I'm working on crocheting x-mas presents for my family. The next project up is a DNA scarf for my dad (he's a science teacher). I also have five or six projects hibernating, including a thread-work bedspread, a couple of sweaters, and an ottoman cover. I'd really love to display some of my pretty yarn in a bowl in the living room, but my cat would destroy it. Maybe I'll try glass jars on a shelf.

oooooh I'm a painter!! And while some of my paintings are much more serious, I started an etsy store with more fun, silly paintings that my old college girlfriends always loved!

The hardest part though, is finding the balance between the silly, fun ones and the ones I'll spend hours and hours on. I'll do one painting in 1 hr, and another will take weeks! Lol, but it's SO fun and exhilarating! Our basement has been totally taken over with all of my paint stuff :D

http://cozylittlecave.etsy.com

Cooking. Cooking is a craft like any other, though the results are more temporary than most. My house usually smells pretty good, my love and I could stand to lose 10 pounds each, and all our friends jump at an invitation to come and dine.

Knitting. Currently my longterm project is a queen sized afghan which is hibernating for the moment while I knit up my short term project: the lacy stockings in the VogueKnitting Spring/Summer 2009. I have to finish them pronto and start another project for an event.

I just finished the Owls sweater before starting the stockings.

You forgot to add ALL of the above.
I am currently embroidering a small version of a Lautrec painting and crocheting and 2 or three needle felted pieces.
Drawing and painting are also things I like to do.
I am the poster child for artistic A.D.D.!

@cozylittlecave: I like your work! No matter how long they take ;-)

I like to do collages with mixed media, paint, ink, photos, and paper. Also I like to cook. Though I like the idea of knitting, I always unravel mistakes (b/c I am pre-beginner practically, and don't know how to pick up a stitch) so I never get very far...

I voted for painting, but I also have a scrapbook I like to work on. I also consider video editing to be a craft, and I do that every day for my job, as well as for leisure. I love it. =)

i knit scarves, embroider (am currently cross-stitching a picture of ), make jewelry, and own a letterpress so also make stationery. There are projects all over my house!

Sorry, my formatting is bad. Cross-stitch project is of Dita von Teese HERE

I chose painting, but I do sew, embroider, frame/cut mats... I love all things crafty! I wish I could get into knitting though, for some reason, I can never get it when trying to do it out of a book. I need a real person. Stat! lol

Pique-assiette mosaics. Also collage: mostly paper and metal. Also making jewelry from vintage buttons, keys, etc. And cooking!

I really love drawing and painting of any kind (if there's a pen or pencil in my hand, there WILL be drawing), but lately I've been getting really into oil pastel. I've been doing portraits for family and friends as presents, in particular. Here's me working on one of them: http://tinyurl.com/littlebkm

You left off scrapbooking. Cliche, I know. But I love making mini scrapbooks out of old cd cases are gifts. I do have one big scrapbook for all my travels. And I can make pretty much anything else out of paper and stamps and markers and embossing and photos, like greeting cards. I also decoupage the outside of the cd tins. I can't remember the last time my dining room table didn't have a massive paper craft laying out.

Does glassworking count as a "craft"? I've been taking classes in San Francisco. It's more of a hardcore art in my book, though.

thanks mjr! :)

@KimberlyM
I defiantly think glass-working is! I went thru a phase where I made a ton of glass beads. It's so much fun!!

Mostly knitting, a side order of sewing and a sprinkling of embroidery and jewellery making! I find I will pick up different sorts of projects for different seasons and moods. But there's always a knitting project on the go.

Letterpress printing and glassblowing.

The first I'm just starting to get into the second I want to take up again.

Whiteforest, I should have been more specific in my comment. As a ceramics graduate and art teacher I am conscious of the health hazards associated with the craft. Regular breathing of clay dust, such as in one's living environment, causes silicosis, a severe respiratory disease. Firing unventilated kilns in a living or work space exposes people to extremely toxic fumes.

crochet! working on a cardigan in "paprika" with wool-blend yarn and vintage seam binding details.

Combo of printmaking (Gocco), drawing, sewing, quilting and collage.

I Answered other-my hobby is card making, often with scrapping supplies, and gold leafing/silver leafing objects like artificial pumpkins, frames, ornaments, etc.

I'm a quilter so I picked sewing.