What was your first Craft make?

vickyjakesmum

sarahaxon yes I remember doing that too, didn’t drag them, hadn’t thought of that. Do you still do crafts?

sarahaxon

vickyjakesmum I’m always making things but I don’t think of them as crafts! Recently I made a garden trellis out of woven green hazel, two big planters out of a couple of cattle troughs and most recently some rustic benches out of spare birch trunks and a cracked elm plank donated by a neighbour.

vickyjakesmum

sarahaxon that’s wonderful, really love to hear of things like that. Daughter in law’s step Mum is a willow weaver, the baskets are beautiful. Making things (now often termed as craft) is part of who we are.

frenchielove

vickyjakesmum oh those were the days, always loved artwork and crayoning, remember cutting up pictures to make jigsaws, I also made a pair of slippers out of cardboard for the base and then a strip of cloth across the front 😂 they must have looked revolting.
made little dolls and fairies out of wooden pegs, oh but my most favourite, was a shoe box turned on its side and painted as a deep sea scene, then hand made fishes hung from cotton from the roof so it looked like they were swimming. Happy days, thank you for reminding me 😘

vickyjakesmum

frenchielove that’s just brilliant, I love the shoe box idea. Jogged my memory of me and my brother, cutting out newspaper clouds and lightning, hanging them on string, then hanging out of the upstairs window, dangling them Infront of the sitting room whilst our parents were watching telly, we genuinely thought they would think it was a thunder storm. 🤣😂🤣

untz

vickyjakesmum I used to make my barbie doll clothes out of an old gingham dress and silver foil. Yes, really. Tbh my sewing hasn’t improved that much 🤣

vickyjakesmum

untz nothing wrong with a silver foil dress, we’ve all done that haven’t we? 😉 It’s still creative.

justeena1

vickyjakesmum i made a lot of things but some pictures i have on Facebook. Flowers making, painting,drawing paper mashy work and other a lot of stuff.

vickyjakesmum

That’s brilliant justeena1 being creative is a gift. I’m not on fb, but I do enjoy Pintrest.

Do you remember your first craft?

justeena1

vickyjakesmum it was doll. I made with papers and for face i used small ball,hair with piece of clothes and decorations with ribbons. It was so nice

vickyjakesmum

That’s so sweet justeena1 be great if we had photos to see what we did. Or maybe not in my case. 😂

justeena1

vickyjakesmum yes you are right

kayden16

vickyjakesmum

Sounds fun VJM 😃

I do not have a creative bone in my body , sadly . I have tried and failed 😆

vickyjakesmum

Oh no! kayden16 😂😂 you must excel at other things.

tonicurtis1967

As a kid id make magazines

vickyjakesmum

tonicurtis1967 Oh that’s great, did you do it like a comic strip, with voice bubbles etc? I’d do that now, sounds like a brilliant idea.

amejoy

I’ve always enjoyed making things at school and at home and would have crazes for eg. I learned how to make pom poms - the old method with two cardboard discs - and made a big bag of them!

frenchielove

amejoy yes! Loved the pompoms, was just going to say, back in the day, we all learnt to sew and knit. Mine was a disaster, but the whole family knitted so you soon picked it up. My mum was a seamstress, so sewing too, and I liked embroidery.

vickyjakesmum

amejoy Yes proper cardboard circles with a hole in the middle, took ages to thread! I’ve got some of the new plastic pom pom makers, they are rubbish compared to the original and best way. They aren’t as dense.

pamfletch

frenchielove I used to do a lot of embroidery and made tablecloths and I made some rugs with hooks and thick wool, still using them even though they’re over 44 years old. 🤗🌈

pamfletch

vickyjakesmum I also made a doll and stuffed her with kapok, the thing I made first though was a brown felt rabbit clutching an orange carrot 🥕also stuffed with Kapok, as a child I was proud of my efforts.😂🌈

frenchielove

pamfletch oh yes, the rugs, they were quite tough on the hands with that metal rug puller tool.
my nana and aunties made proper rag rugs on sacking, they looked really lovely. I remember going with them to the rag and bone yard with bags of old clothes. Gosh, it all comes flooding back!

vickyjakesmum

pamfletch We made one at primary school, really hard work like frenchielove said. But very effective. Can you remember the very first thing you made Pam?

amejoy

pamfletch Those Readicut rugs last forever! Mine, unusually, was a wall hanging called Cascade, which I think was stylised flowers on a cream background.

pamfletch

frenchielove doesn’t it just?😂