2006 Crafting Miscellany
Of course, with the addition of sewing and more serious photography to my plate combined with the increasing interest in knitting and spinning, some older crafty pursuits have kind of fallen to the wayside. At the same time, some crafty skills from long, long ago were also put to use this year.
In miscellaneous crafty output I have included the binding of two books (I think I may have also bound 2 knitting journals that went out before photographing), the making of one collage, the making of one digitally manipulated image (I need to do more of this as it is something doable when pain levels are higher, though I lost all of my “goodies” in the hard drive crash), designing freezer paper stencils for a ton of baby onesies and painting five of them myself, making teeth out of polymer clay and beading into jewelry, and weaving many weavette squares that were then sewn into lavendar sachets.
I remember feeling quite pleased with the books I bound as well as the collage, but somehow I’m just not finding much time to do these things. The culprit may be more due to the state of my “studio” than finding time. It is more finding the time/energy/low pain levels to clean out said studio so that it is quicker and easier to sit down and create things like collages and make prints. Definitely something to go on the list of 2007 goals…
It was also a blast to return to some crafting I hadn’t really done since I was in junior high or high school. I remember sculpting a whale for my sister to use in a diorama for school and being heart broken when one of the kids broke it on the bus. I was so proud of it. I went on to make some rose pendants and such for friends as gifts one Christmas. After that I didn’t do much. Of course this was all before the widespread use of pasta machines to condition the clay and before they came out with some formulas that are a bit easier to work with. I was pretty proud of my teeth beads and the jewelry never fails to get a comment. It’ll be fun to pull it out each Halloween season.
As many of you have pointed out, indeed I have accomplished a fair bit in 2006. It is just that it is scattered all over the board in terms of skills and supplies used. Tomorrow, for ECF I’ll take a look back at my photography (though all original photos before mid March of 2006 were lost in the hard drive crash) over 2006.
