does anyone have "arts and crafts" obsessions?

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Yeaya!
Not so much an obsession, but my life.
I've always been into sewing [costume and clothes making], beads, playdough, knitting, painting.
My favorite is always drawing though.
i currently do Photography, art and drama at school, and am going to do an art foundation course at college, and then go onto either illustration or theatre design!! !

I make 18" doll clothes/patterns because mine doesn't fit the patterns at the store. She's too skinny. I also knit, but my hands tend to ache after a while, and I'm only 22! I really like minitures of all kinds and was really into making Barbie sized things, especially for the little Kelly dolls, they fit better with all the little toy dogs and stuff I had as a kid. Then I got a job and bought stuff instead, but I think I might get back into making Barbie clothes. Skirts are very easy, just frilly trim around the waist. My sister used to get mad at me because I was always better than her at every craft she did and I generally think the stuff is garbage. It just never looks the way I want it to, except the doll clothes. She is better at crocheting, but simply because I dislike the way it looks, I prefer the Vs of knitting. And my eyes don't like finding the stitches to pick up. I also make costumes for myself and anyone else willing to pay for materails, tips are optional. I used to work at a fabric store, so the materials were always cheap. I'm currently trying to get a job at another fabric store and have taken up scrapbooking and embroidery so I can help people with that. For my costumes, I will learn anythig to make it look good. One required some leatherwork and I made several pairs of shoes for the doll. Shoes for me are more difficult because of the materials. I have no kids, so I don't sew kids' clothes, but I do sew clothes for my rabbits. They are real troopers during the holidays in their little frilly dresses and sweaters. I guess that's all I do now. I like having projects always in my head, but it makes it difficult to fall asleep if I'm really excited.

Yes, I love drawing and handcrafts , and my obsession got worse when I began college. I have made cross stitch projects, knitting, crochet bracelets, jewerly, little figures with wire and little acrylic beads, origami shurikens, . . . and other things I can't remember.

I try to mix my videogames, samurais and other of my obsessions with my handcrafts. Does someone remember my Mega Man cross stitch project?

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... oss+stitch

I have made anime characters figures with wire and acrylic beads too!

I wanna learn to sew, then I would be able to make cosplay

I've loved crafting my whole life whenever I can find the time. Designer Re-fashion is a column I wrote about places to sell handmade items online.

This looks like a great site.I put it in my "favs" and will visiting a lot.Thanks.(I love textiles,leather and fur<----thrift store and garage sales only but still unpopular with PETA....sorry PETA,should I put the coats in a landfill or give them a decent funeral?

If talking about real obsessions then one funny one I've had in varying degrees of intensity over the last few years has been cutting my hair ; usually shortish, sculpted around the back , layered or fringed at front , meticulous and perfectionist hours of work go into it , sometimes every couple of days over a week or two , then just once a week or fortnight; just recently has calmed down considerably, which I'm glad of cos as a craft it is pretty exhausting , the tension of not making a mistake, the peering round my head ( even when using 3 fold mirror still have to peer, and adjust scissor angle etc!) but I generally come out of a session feeling strangely calmed/grounded , as if I've been meditating intensely. My brain washed through.

One I used to have but not in recent years was drawing faces. All sizes. In blue biro on scraps, or pencil, or oil pastel on walls ! ! I now know that this is a classically aspergers thing to do with effort made to understand facial expressions. But many people have complimented me on these so it's not just diagram drawing ! ! When I draw faces, on a good session, it feels also as if I go off somewhere, and hear people talking to each other as I'm drawing the face , as if I'm hearing the story about that person!! And come out feeling tranced and rested!

Another one a few years back which lasted over about 3 winters was cutting out and collecting pictures from house interiors and garden magazines ( "real houses" etc!) , and pics of faces , of all kind of faces , and grouping them , with a lot of concentration , into families and their houses and individual rooms , and beginning to attribute stories to each family and each member , and it was the rooms which gave me the info. NOW I know why I liked doing that so much too!! ! They're still all filed away very neatly in diff coloured folders depending on the size of family etc!!

I have also painted huge abstracts on walls or panels I bought specially. They go on and on and on . I don't like to stop. If I stop I feel as if I've sold out. To me it's only good if it's still able to change. It's dead if I say there that's right!! So only three smallish ones still exist , which I could still happily paint on some more , for ever , changing and changing. Infinity. Some collapse from sheer overload and those are the ones I mourn.

Recently I've just revived my old love of collecting little smooth objects. So no craft activity right now.

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i love writing and playing with words too. i think it's cool that you only have to change one letter to make autistic into artistic.

my obsessions are seasonal. i go nuts over one craft for a few months until my wrists can't take it, turn to reading until it heals up, switch to next craft, rinse repeat.

beading (but i only like miyuki delica beads and swarovski crystals)
cross-stitching
crocheting
knitting
tatting (love it with beads, bugle beads especially)

it's hard to get tatting thread here, the crochet thread at the stores are too thick or fray too easily, can anyone recommend an affordable brand i might be able to purchase online?

i'll scan some pics once i borrow a scanner.

I am totally obsessed with spinning and knitting. I have an entire room dedicated to it, with boxes from all over the country filled with wool, alpaca, silk and other fibers that I use to create yarn.

I am so glad that I found my little obssession; it completely relaxes me.

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. Crocheting is fun too, but my wrist starts to hurt after doing it for a while.

I love doll making, I am trying to learn to crochet clothes for them. I tried knitting but i have an injured wrists and can't do that anymore.

-scrap booking
- knitting

I like to knit
play piano, does that count?
Sketch and draw
Quilt, they have to be a little small
Flower gardening
Deco art using homemade stencils
Photography!!
I collect antique photos, letters, news, ads, etc. and put them into a scrap book.

I'd love to learn to make dolls. I thought about doing small model dolls that resemble my family and historical people. Yeah, sounds crazy. I don't know where to find a class for that in my area.

Also want to learn to sew costumes. That'd be incredible.

Yup, I didn't realise it was an AS trait though I built my business on it!!

I make Soap mainly, I also do bath bombs, body scrubs, dead sea bath salts, that sort of thing.

Other obsessions include
Knitting, sewing, beading, jewellery making and customising clothing.

Current obsessions:

Knitting - forever and always

Fashion Reconstruction - cut up old clothes and sew new ones

Don't have time for [blasted FT job!]:

drawing - people, landscapes

painting - ditto

spinning/felting

Very passionate about knitting and crochet but obsessed about knitting. Never without my knitting. Can't just sit and watch TV, have to be knitting or crocheting, or logged into WP.

Any other knitting lovers out there, I'm curious, do you prefer simple patterns with stocking stitch or garter stitch or do you prefer complicated patterns such a fair isle and cable patterns? I go for cable patterns a lot because I get bored with simple patterns. Also I hate knitting something I already knitted - such as second sleeve, second front of a cardigan or second glove. Do you mind kniting duplicates or would you rather knit something different every time?