General hobby/craft making stuff thread page 3

[Warmbear]

I am a cabinet maker, I also make and sell medieval Bows and arrows occasionally.I make walking sticks, I do leather work and I am learning to make good slingshots.

[paleo-bunny]

Yeah, it was the fiddliness that kind of got to me. Not sure I'd want to make beads, as that might get to me as well, but pendants would be fun to do. Something like this, although the detail on this would take some practice. I've seen some neat rings as well.

That's a very beautiful pendant with lovely organic shapes.

I can do the high-dexterity fiddly stuff but I have problems with strength in my fingers due to having hypermobile joints.

Hence, I can do life drawing in pencil/charcoal reasonably well, and can string beads.

And so, I doubt I have the ability to make shoes, as sbhikes does. I love her red shoes.

[Catherine]

i mosaic skulls! I've only done 2 so far, working on a 3rd which i had to shelve temporarily due to condo upgrades. The flowered one didn't come out exactly how i thought it would, i might try that style again.

[Blackcatbone]

http://www.utilikilts.com/company/pr...ilts/workmans/ actually. .

OMG, UTILIKILT! I WANT ONE!

And everything else, COOL! Pictures? I eventually want to do more actually making, as opposed to 'hacking'.

I just finished a small set of drawers last night. Corian top and bottom.



And I got the paint and rust off of the steel stool seat that I'm playing around with. Not sure what I'm going to do with it though, as the seat is fairly pitted. I like the raw steel look although I may bondo the center and paint it while doing the rest with a clear coat.

[MudLily]

I knit, crochet, and spin. I sew and embroider a little. I make beaded rosaries, and jewelry recently as an outgrowth of the former. I have also made some of my own scientific equipment - very low-tech single-fill water samplers and anchored sediment traps.

[cmlloyd]

I Quilt
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this is actually the 6th quilt I have done I have been sewing for years and it has grown into machine embroidery and digitizing.

I am also into amature photography
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[namelesswonder]

Photography is a hobby of mine.
http:\\cloudysoul.deviantart.com\

I'm also a terrible sewer.
(resizing a jacket back in 2008)

I used to have a 1974 VW Bug, so I now know how to do some basic mechanical work (changing tires, various fluids, changing drum brakes/part of drum brakes, how to check blown fuses, some basic electrical troubleshooting).

When I got it


Before I sold it

[paleo-bunny]

I dig that car ... nice work. I would have kept the light blue/turquoise, personally speaking. I'm a big fan of VWs, and of the colour combo of orange and turquoise.

My current VW is light blue, carrying an orange and yellow hula-hoop on the back seats.

[paleo-bunny]

i mosaic skulls! I've only done 2 so far, working on a 3rd which i had to shelve temporarily due to condo upgrades. The flowered one didn't come out exactly how i thought it would, i might try that style again.

These are stunning. The colours in the floral skull are perfectly pretty, exuberant and contradictory. Is Picasso an inspiration for these pieces?

I find the monochromatic skull very static, sinister and mask-like, and it reminds me of Donnie Darko.

[namelesswonder]

I dig that car ... nice work. I would have kept the light blue/turquoise, personally speaking. I'm a big fan of VWs, and of the colour combo of orange and turquoise.

My current VW is light blue, carrying an orange and yellow hula-hoop on the back seats.

That would have been nice, but the paint was all in terrible condition (and so was the fiberglass of the fenders). Also the hood was black. I was going to go pumpkin-inspired and have some black on it, but never got around to it. I also had some purple and leopard/zebra print seat covers