Happy Friday! We hope you’ve been having an excellent first week of October. For our Free Stuff giveaway today, we have a special selection of jewelry-making supplies from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads, including beads, chain, jump rings, beading wire and more. All of these items would come in handy for making a cool fabric flower necklace like the ones we’ve been seeing lately, like this one from Mandipidy:
Photo from Mandipidy.com
While sewing might be your main creative outlet, we know that many of you do other crafty activities like jewelery-making and scrapbooking. For a chance to win today’s prize, answer the question: What other crafts do you participate in besides sewing? Respond in the comments section and we’ll randomly draw a winner on Monday. Good luck!
besides sewing i do woodwork ,painting,mod pogde ,cross stitch , and make jewerly i try to keep busy ,,,,,,,thanks and keeping fingers crossed
felting, lacemaking, tatting, knitting, crochet, weaving, and more!
besides sewing I just started doing some beading using seed beads. I also do a little bit of knitting. I also like to cook, ski, play tennis and read.
I love doing machine embroidery with my Bernina. I have done a bit of jewelry making with glass beads when I had access to a friends supplies and tools. I hope to do more of this in the future!
When not sewing for my dogs I make beaded items, not always jewelry for humans. I make bling bling for my dogs and to also raise money for X Racing Greyhounds find forever homes and to help the non profit rescue centers for the many Houndies they always have waiting to be adopted.
Quilting, beading and crochet. Depends on what I feel like doing when I get up in the morning. Rather than having one project going on at a time, I prefer to have many. I like to combine projects too. Like adding beads to quilts.
Besides sewing, I do some jewelry making, knitting, crocheting, and painting.
I like to do dry flower arrangements and some painting.
Sewing , but lately crocheting, cross-stitch, and getting geared up for Christmas ornaments.
I also like to make jewelery, scrapbooking and various crafts with my girl scout troop.
I sew, machine embroidery, quilt, knit, crochet, and do some jewelry making.
I’m a potter but sewing was my first love. I also knit and crochet and occasionally make jewelry and try other crafts that intrigue me.
Besides sewing I also crochet, decoupage, beading, paint, crewel and embroidery, woodwork, sculpture, photoshop, multimedia crafting, restore old dolls and toys, and repurposing/recycling/reusing items into new things (mostly into handbags)!
I also knit, crochet, bead and I also do basketweaving…I love working with my hands and creating something useful out of whatever I have available.
I think I have too many hobbies!! I love sewing, knitting, crossstitching, crocheting, card making, painting, and jewelry making. Besides that I love to garden and to read!
quilting, knitting, embroidery,i love hand work.
Anything that catches my eye. The only thing I have a problem doing is knitting.
paper crafts, cards, beading, but mostly things with fabric.
Besides the LOVE of my life–Sewing and Machine Embroidery…I have also taken numerous classes in beading and jewelry making…LOVE beautiful things!!
I love experimenting with my Fabric Remnants. I cover Canvas and old mirror and picture frames. It gives them a fresh new look.
I enjoy collage, mixed media, jewelry, drawing , painting, quilting, embroidery and sewing!
Blessings!
Knitting.
embrodiery, counted cross-stitch, needlepoint
I love scrapbooking, cardmaking, sewing and cross-stitching! All of these can even include different kinds of beads as accents, too!
Knitting, crochet, jewelry making and craft painting.
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I like to sew, crochet, make jewelry, and paint.
I love to recycle clothing to make new things… I like to use the GLUE gun… I like to make braclets and hair clips and then teach my 10 year old daughter how to do what I just did. Pick me! Pick me!
I knit, smock, do other needlework.
I’m a beginner of making jewelry, and sew,quilting, love doing hobbies 7
I’m a painter!
I am just starting to take time for me and sewing is my first “craft” i have ventured into. I am intrigued lately with felt. I would love to learn more about how to make my own one of a kind jewelry like pictured above though.
I do machine and hand embroidery, crazy quilting, paper crafting, floral arranging and have dabbled in most everything.
I love to sew and have started teaching my grandaughter. We have also started to make jewlery. I try anything. I homeschool my 2 grandaughters and another one is pre-k. So we like to do all kinds of crafts together for art class.
Jewelry making, knitting, crochet, needlework.
Besides sewing garments and doll clothes, I make jewelry, knit and do machine embroidery.
I make necklaces, pottery and paint vintage style hand lettered signs.
Of course I enjoy sewing the most, but knit, flower arrangements, crafts with the grandkids, we try things they want to do, used to teach 4-H so have tried manh different crafts.
Besides sewing, I knit, crochet and jewelry making. Not enough hours in the day to do it all:-(. Thanks!
I also like to sculpt clay, paint with watercolor, knit, and crochet
I like to garden, cook and crochet.
I love to sew. Costumes, curtains home-deco and re-purposed items are a favorite. But I also really enjoy painting anything that doesn’t move, jewelry making, knitting , crocheting and cross-stitch and cooking and . . . ok sometimes I have to go to work so I guess need to limit some of my fun.
My time is limited but if I have the chance, I knit and bead or if I am really lucky, I try something new.
Knitting!
I sew clothes for my grandchildren; I quilt for myself and for charity; I knit, especially in the car while traveling; I do counted cross stitch; I crochet; and I have begun to work with beaded jewelry.
Mostly knit and crochet… Though I’ll try almost anything!
I scrapbook and make jewelry. Most of my jewelry projects co-ordinate with a sewing project so that I have a complete look.
I dabble in beads, scrapbooking, polymer clay, and various kid-oriented crafts with my grandkids.
Besides sewing I love beadweaving and jewelry making, polymer clay, knitting, crochet, painting, colored pencils and machine embroidery,
I buy old funky table lamps at the thrift store and cover the shades with wild fabric and give them new life.
I love making jewelry I don’t sell it. I make jewelry for my grand daughter and me.