Who likes to do crafts?

Lämmchen said:

I'm a really crafty person LOL I enjoy doing all kinds of crafts and am glad I'll have time this fall and winter to do a few projects. I can knit and crochet but knitting is my favorite of the two. I can do cross stitch and needlepoint and cross stitch is my favorite of those. I want to learn to do felting so I can make small animals using real fur! :;;D:

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Eek!!! real animal fur!!!!!!!!!! for shame

I watched this music video and remembered now much the chap singing it was able to curl one side of his upper lip! Quite remarkable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs

Outside of graphic art and music (and beer/alcohol making) - some of the crafty things I try/do are simple or relatively simple projects to help save money.

One more recent example was around a year or so I saw a few youtube videos on people using "candle heaters", and decided to give it a go. The first experiment was just with 3 terracotta pots of increasing size inside each other, heated by a candle. Really not much heat - and not nearly enough to heat a room. So I improved it and cut a length of steel (threaded) rod - and added some washers and bolts - and stuck it through the top hole, and sealed off the top. Better - more heat, but still not enough. Replaced candle with a thick glass container filled with pure alcohol, that burns through a wick that comes through a hole I cut in the top cap. Better still - more heat - but not enough.

Because the heat hasn't been enough - I've still been using my oil heater - which costs a fair amount of money to run (electricity is not cheap in Aus). So this last week I bought an even larger terracotta pot to put over the original design, laid out on bricks, and minimizing to a degree the inlet air. This version is more successful, and it's heating my study right now. I still feel it can be improved though, and will probably try this next year:

The closest I ever came to enjoying crafts, was building World War II vintage aircraft models with my dad when I was a kid. He became a kid when we would work on them, and I think that's what I enjoyed.

I tried a few times as an adult to build models, but without my dad helping, I usually wound up wanting to smash the model with my fists because I just don't have the patience he did for such delicate work.

MarkFL said:

The closest I ever came to enjoying crafts, was building World War II vintage aircraft models with my dad when I was a kid. He became a kid when we would work on them, and I think that's what I enjoyed.

I tried a few times as an adult to build models, but without my dad helping, I usually wound up wanting to smash the model with my fists because I just don't have the patience he did for such delicate work.

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Ha, don't ever try dismantling and reassembling a three-train clock

I used to belong to a craft club long ago. I really enjoyed putting little projects together. The things I made looked nice. I am into doing art work when I feel like it but haven't felt like it recently.

Soon it will be Canadian Thanksgiving; and this is a video about pumpkin carving :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkvDJFSzig

Lämmchen said:

When is the holiday?

I can't carve pumpkins anymore since I'm allergic to them! I get hives up and down my arms. I used to do some amazing carvings before people came up with patterns to use.

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Up here in Canada it's the second Monday of October.

I liked the video of Bernadette Macias carving pumpkins.

I've just been looking into ways to cut a glass bottle. There are so many ways to do it, although most of them are little more than derivatives of "score the bottle, then thermally stress it until it cracks along the score".

The engineer in me is thinking of ways to rig a bottle to a belt-driven turning tool and a diamond wheel so you can just put the bottle in place and press a button to do the job. Of course it would cost enough to set up such a rig that it wouldn't be economically viable unless you're going through probably hundreds of bottles, but that doesn't stop the mental cogs whirring a bit.