Handcrafts

I have very crafty parents. Mom can do just about any craft you put in front of her, plus she’s mad creative across crafty disciplines. Dad crochets and works with plastic canvas.It came as little surprise when I turned out to be crafty myself!

I think I’ve tried a number of the crafts both of my parents do, and while I share a couple with them, it turns out that I really had my own road to follow in my creativity. Below, I’ve listed every single craft I have spent a lot of time on in the past, curretnly practice, or am learning. Galleries are ncluded where possible, but I quite simply don’t have pictures of a lot of my work. I keep telling myself that I’ll invest in a good digital camera when I can afford it, but that won’t be any time soon.

Children’s Crafts

  • Beadies (shapes made from pony beads)
  • Lanyards
  • Fuse beads (the beads you iron to keep in their shape)

Fiber Arts

  • Weaving (I spent much of my childhood engaged in this.)
  • Loom knitting (loved it as a kid, just came back to it a year ago)
  • Temari (learning)

Needlepoint

  • Plastic canvas (2-D and 3-d creations)
  • Vinyl weave mug inserts
  • Aida cloth

Papercraft

  • Origami (I loved doing origami as a child! I was never particularly good at it, but I kept trying anyway.)
  • Quilling
  • Embossing (Mom was teaching me this a couple of years ago.)

Wearable Art

  • Jewelry deviantArt Gallery
  • Beading (mostly friendship pins and pony bead art)
  • Pop Beads (I was obsessed with these as a child. They were my whole designing world for two years.)
  • Macrame (mostly friendship bracelets)
  • Wire
  • Chinese Knotting (still trying to learn)