What is your SECOND favourite craft/hobby?
 

I dare say for most of us, paper crafts are our favourite hobby. But I bet there are a variety of next fave�s! What do you like to do when you aren�t making cards or scrapbooking?

I decided in the winter I wanted to learn to crochet, so YouTube and I had a few dates (there are wonderful tutorials on there, who knew!) and I have been happily crocheting since then. I have also played around a little with making jewelry. But cards are my first love.

What about you?

Knitting.

Flower gardens and sewing, but NOT mending or ironing!

Reading!! But when I’m stamping a lot, I’m not reading, and when I’m reading a lot, my stamping suffers!

i have 3 go to hobbies

Beading
Stamping
Crochet

In that order

Crochet is about to bump Stamping into 3rd place. I had forgotten how much i enjoyed crocheting and when i worked on some project earlier in the year I was reminded how much I love it so stamping has as of late taken a backseat to beading and crocheting.

My extras have seasons. Right now I'm really working on my genealogy projects, including DNA. But there's 7 quilts in my workshop that are layered and ready to quilt, and my dad wants a log cabin quilt, and my daughter wants her marathon shirts made into a quilt. So it's probably the time to change my focus.

My hobby when I'm not stamping is organizing my stamping supplies. And I'm almost finished! A few months back, I bought my home and put my stamping stuff in the smallest bedroom. Well, that didn't work. I decided to take over the den, which wasn't used, and make it work for me. It's on the front of my house and I get glorious sunlight throughout the day.

I have a box full of new stamps and dies I've been waiting to use, so I don't see needing another hobby any time soon!

My second favorite hobby is counted cross stitch. I make 15 or more Christmas ornaments each year for family and friends, each with their names and the year. I also read but don't count that as a hobby since it's an important part of every day for me. With 2 forms of arthritis, I always have a book handy so that I can sit and read before the pain and fatigue gets too bad.

Hm, I don't think I'd put papercrafts as my favourite hobby. It's beaten out by both miniature modelling / painting, and crafting board games. Technically the latter does involve a fair bit of paper, to be fair.

I also knit and crochet.

Cardmaking is my Fav!

Snap, Soozie! That's me in a nutshell. :)

I used to needlepoint all the time. Made wonderful pillows, Christmas stockings, framed pieces. I was in the middle of a piece when cardmaking hit me and I never finished the piece I was working on.

I love to do crossword and jigsaw puzzles and also read.

I love this place and have to say making cards is my fave hobby.

I too love crosswords! I also garden (in season). My social time involves cardmaking and scrapbooking so they are definitely at the top of the list!

Oh, for sure, I love gardening. Left off that one. :) We need more hours in the day.

I don't stamp every day, although I'd say it's my favorite hobby at this time of my life.

However, not a day goes by when I don't read. I love books and my local library.

Wow...let me see.... After stamping I guess it would watercolour painting and lace making equally.

Knitting or crochet. But that is seasonal for me. It’s hard to have a lap full of yarn when it’s so hot outside. I’m much better at crochet but trying to improve my knitting skills.

I also love counted cross stitch. Haven’t done much over the last few years because my right hand falls asleep a LOT ( writing, driving, reading....the hand goes numb ). It’s quite annoying. I really want to get back to it but need to find a solution to that problem.

It would probably be a tie between gardening and cooking - although they're sort of the same because I grow food, not really flowers. :)

I do some sewing on different craft projects, some quilting, have tons of plants in pots on our deck and love puttering with them in the summer. When I worked I read a book a week..........now reading has taken a back seat but I still love it. I've also dabbled in beading but making cards is my all time favorite.

I would say:

Stamping

Volunteering
Cooking
Reading

I try to volunteer as much as I can. I've been a hospital volunteer for almost 24 years now :p Very rewarding and have met lots of fun volunteers.

Depends on the season. In Winter, it's knitting & I dabble in embroidery & cross-stitch. In the warmer weather, I take photos of flowers in my garden & the weather esp. storms. & I do lots of gardening. Have to have my hands busy all the time.

I enjoy photography (although it seems like I never have enough time to devote to it as I'd like to). Also, reading and I used to bead all the time, got out of it, now am intrigued again! My spare bedroom is my craft room and its getting pretty cramped in there!

It’s so interesting to see all the activities we enjoy! Most of us have a variety of hobbies depending on season and inclination :)

Going to buy baby Afghan yarn today!

My second favorite hobby at the moment is the Kindness Rock Project. I am painting and hiding rocks outdoors where they can be found...kept...re-hidden or act as inspiration for someone to join in and paint some. This was supposed to be a more temporary thing for me but it has been fun this summer. My family is doing it too. I am trying to detach and get back to stamping :)

Bible journaling, crocheting, or music. I often pick up my guitar to learn new contemporary Christian music that I hear on the radio.

Cooking, but now I'm trying to lose weight.

Reading but I get dizzy reading, from a past vestibular ear infection, still have symptoms, so now I listen to audiobooks.

Stamping but I'm reorganizing now but make a card every once in a while. Actually I have lots of cards to make, but once I see that treadmill next to the stamping table, it's a 50/50 shot which one I will use first;)

Oh, my young grandson did that in the shrubbery at a hotel where we stayed last summer. I have been back twice to that same hotel and forgot to check to see if it was gone or not.

I like to make different gifts by using my silhouette machine and vinyl. Whether its ornaments, glass block lights, wine glasses, personalizing various items, etc. Plus I love gardening.

I used to love to needlepoint and do counted cross stitch. I have tons of projects. Some partially done, some not started. Back when I was in my 40s, I would say that I had enough projects to last until my 80s. I really need to pick it up again because I guess I have enough to last until I’m 150 now.
Card making has definitely taken a front seat, but I used You Tube to teach myself to knit and crochet. I made a ton of scarves, but never improved beyond that point. I’m currently working on a Pom Pom rug with some of my yarn stash. I also just finished a jigsaw puzzle, and bought another on vacation. Word puzzles are another pastime of mine, but I’m trying to carve out more time for walking/gym.

Great question! :)

LMAO Linda...so true about organizing!!!

Gardening-but after 30 years my back and hips failed 2 years ago so I may not be able to return :( Jigsaws in the winter. With a warm drink and old Brit mysteries on DVD.
I like to cook but rarely do anymore. I used to make simple jewelry.
Should be reading-I have enough unread books around here!

Knitting or playing music (piano/ flute) and reading.
Then photography, but I haven't had time for editing and organising photos for the last while.
Don't know if cooking counts as a hobby because it was my career in an earlier life, but I gave it up so that I could still enjoy it at home - which I do.

It’s so neat to read all the interesting things you are all involved in. My other interests rotate. I enjoy crocheting and reading. I’d really like to learn to use my camera better and also learn how to watercolor.

Counted cross-stitch was my first love in crafting. Thinking about it, it was also where I first had to learn to fight “full set syndrome”. All those pretty colors. Organized on the little numbered cards. Aaaahhhh!

Oh, wow, I have so many things I love! I scrapbook and stamp, but I also love reading, cooking, baking, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, playing the piano, playing board games exercising/running/biking, and volunteering. Fortunately, I am blessed with a small home and a very handy husband so there isn't much to clean or maintain. I am a SAHM to three teenage girls so I do have time for many interests, but a lot of what I like has practical uses for everyday life anyways and I can enjoy them all with my family! Love that!

We are like our own patch work quilt, aren’t we :) individual yet part of the whole. ...see what I did there, using a craft item as a metaphor ...

Reading...gotta have a book always!
Gardening, cooking, jigsaw puzzles... of course gardening is summer...and jigsaw puzzles are more winter and cabin activities. I loved doing cross stitch but haven't done much of that in years...have a TON of patterns...it's not as fun when the holes became smaller...or did my eyes just need to be much closer...:rolleyes:

I've tried lots of different things over the years... jewelry-making, needlepoint, piano/keyboards, pottery... but I reached a point a while back when I felt like "too many hobbies, not enough time (or money)". I decided that I'm happier when I put all of my attention, and passion, into just one thing. I decided to make card-making my one thing, and I haven't looked back.


I tend to be a bit OCD, and I found that the best way to deal with that is to have a safe outlet - something positive that I can obsess over. And it just works so much better for me if I only have one thing. (My brother calls it my "Single Obsession Theory", LOL.)


I do read a fair bit, but just whenever I can squeeze it in... sometimes during meals, or right before bed, or sitting in waiting rooms, etc. If I didn't feel this need to keep my hobbies down to one, the runners up would probably be cross-stitch, and genealogy.


I am enjoying this thread a lot! :D

I enjoy making pin cushions out of wool felt. Alone or in some found container from Goodwill. Like a tiny teapot missing it’s top or a little cup or a tiny truck. It’s great fun and also keeps my hands busy. But card making and other paper crafting is my one big love.

Playing clarinet in two Community Bands, Card Making, Reading, in that order

Soozie and Shaz, I combine my card-making and jewelry 'stringing' with reading...I listen to audio books. I work full time, so my free time is precious, and I make the most of it.
I like to sew, currently for my home, not my person. Gardening slowed when my knees failed. At one time I had a goal of trying one new recipe per week...then I got old and tired.

Knitting and crochet