Favorite Arts and crafts you liked doing as a kid and still do now?

My mother taught me to crochet the year before I started school. I was very bored without my brother and drove her nuts whining, so she taught me to crochet. I still crochet to this day.

In summer camp when I was 9 or 10, I learned to do leather braiding with 4 pieces of leather and wish I could remember how to do it. In the eighth grade I learned leather tooling and would have liked to continue in this, but the price of the materials were always prohibitive so my crafts took less expensive directions, like making flowers and peacocks and Christmas Trees from styrofoam egg cartons and foiling inexpensive vases and/or plaster of paris figures.

I guess I've tried about everything out there but the ones I still do are crochet, beading, sewing and a little bit of embroidery.

When I was three or four my Mom would go to the fabric store to buy stuff for whatever she was making at the time. The owner always had a bag of bits of lace, ribbon and fabric for me to take home and play with. I learned to sew, and now over 40 years later I still sew. I am currently making reversible dog coats for small dogs. I plan to sell them at a craft show in December. They are made out of fleece and are going to be great!

I am also learning how to needle felt. I just ordered a book and needles (I have one needle felting needle but I haven't got an idea of where it is right now!

I also crochet, knit, water color, do hand thrown pottery, photography and what ever else interests me. My main source of enjoyment is sewing.

Crochet, I started around 11 and here I am with grown kids and it's like an addiction I do it everyday.

hi binarykat!

i love coloring books and until now i do it when i find the time. i don't want to forget my mix and matching shades of different colors. oh yeah i still work on my scrap booking and it is fun to do it not just you make beautiful crafts but also you bring back the memories thru pictures and crafts..

happy posting and happy mylotting!

I actually still love to bead. I love to create new creations and to hold themin my hands. It's amazing what a person can really make if they just put there mind to it.

I also like wood burning although I'm not very good at it. And wood craving which tests my patience. And of course painting. But I'm not very good at it but I enjoy making a mess even at this age.