Besides quilting and sewing...I also like to cross stitch, garden, read, bake and cook. I still do some knitting but the ongoing battle with ART-ritis has slowed me down some. I am always on the lookout for a new and interesting craft to try...the next one is making lace

Of course quilting is number 1 with me, but I also love to:

Crochet
Read
Garden
Watercolor painting
Cook (especially outdoor "grill n chills")

And like Nana I do like to explore new and creative craft ideas. I have made my own cards to give to people, I have several silk paintings that I've done; I like to take classes at the local community college if I see something that strikes my interest. If I'm not doing something artistic and creative I'm not happy...

Susan

My other passion is bread making, especially sourdough bread.
Marge

My personal life and avocations are entwined so closely with my vocation, they're hard to separate. I slip effortlessly between raising horticultural goods (mostly seasonal potted plants for wholesale) to my veggie gardens, bramble patches, and fruit trees and also put up a good deal of our food for the coming year. That means I make hundreds of jars of canned goods, not the least of which are marmalades, preserves, salsas, jams, jellies, krauts and pickles. We have a little acreage and live in a two hundred year old farmhouse, so I also spend a fair amount of time, doing renovations on it, and working in the ornamental gardens. I collect rare trees and am just getting into grafting.

Aside from my quilting (a relatively new passion) I also am into braided rugs, and getting back into sewing. I like to paint but haven't had time for eons, photography, antiques, and keep a flock of about fifty chickens, and my dh and I are avid birders.

We live a simple life by today's standards, and make as much as possible of our own necessities like churned butter when I can get cream, or dipping my own candles.

Besides quilting I like to sew, mostly for the house and the grandkids.
I garden and have spent alot of time trying to get this yard to look like something other than a collection of weeds. It's a work in progress.
I like scrapbooking and rubberstamping.
I'm learning to crochet...being left handed makes it hard sometimes to find a teacher.
I love traveling and often when I'm gone look for things that are different from the norm to add to my quilting or rubberstamping collections.

I do all kinds of sewing, crochet, cycling, photography, and camping. I'm sure I have left somethings out.

Carol, a friend of mine who is left handed said she watches a right handed teacher using a mirror and that helps. It is worth a try.

beverly

You are all so creative. Guess that's what makes us all quilters.

I have done most all kinds of needlework from crewel and crosstitch to tatting. I no longer knit or crochet unless I need a baby gift that's not a quilt. I garden and read. I'm a sudoku fanatic but seldom do crosswords. I love to travel any chance I get.

I love to cross stitch
gardening
sewing
quilting
tole painting
word search puzzles,especially at the dr's offices,or while waiting for anything.Easy to carry along.
Looking at all the beautiful gardens here at the GW
Kathi

Girl, you just opened up a can of worms for me.

I really only do one hobby at a time. I'm not sure why, maybe because I can only afford to engross myself into one at a time....and possibly the fact that I don't really have a dedicated craft area and whatever craft/hobby I'm doing at the time sits around my living area making a mess. But it's really lack of focus, I think...I always have so many ideas about everything that I want to do, having more than one hobby at a time would drive me out of my mind and I wouldn't get anything finished.

With that said, I have enjoyed many lives of crafting and with most of my hobbies, with the best of intentions, I've spent untold hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars on supplies that I never ended up using. I always DID the craft and dedicated my free time to it, but I'm slow and meticulous and don't churn out results like I intend.

Crochet, a little knitting, bread dough ornaments, cross stitch, tole painting (which was probably my favorite of all time), jewelry making (my second favorite, and my most recent before starting to make quilt blocks and collect fabric). About a year and a half - two years ago, I decided I wanted to make a quilt. I've joined some block swaps, made a few quilt blocks for myself and have amassed a really big fabric stash.

Then last year sometime, I purchased oil paints, brushes, linseed oil, paint thinner, an easel, and a few small canvases because I really felt passionate about giving oil painting a try. But as of yet, I don't have a clue what I want to paint and so it sits.

My name is Sally and I'm a craft supply addict.

I did lots of other crafts until I started quilting and now that is my only hobby except for reading. I will probably go back to sewing when I have grand kids to sew for.
Linda OH

When my girls were little I sewed alot for them,then i made stabs at crocheting,knitted until artheritis set in, Learned to paint but gave that up when Arther set into my right hand but funny thing I started to quilt,my daughter did some of my cutting I just can't navigate a rotary cutter so far in 2 years I made quilts for all 12 children I don't do any special quilting I usually bind with difficulty, sandwich,tie and stitch in ditch. At least I try and good therapy for me. In fact I had my husband take me to a town nearby this morning to a shop and I bought backing for "Chinese Coin" quilt I am working on.

Beside quilting I like gardening, photography, walking, and listening to country music.

Quilting gets most of my attention next to reading, both are additions, but I do garden in season and love to smock and heiloom sew. I knit on occasions, crochet, tat, sew, needle work but one can't do everything so those are not things that I do very much anymore. Being the old foggy that I am I have tried and enjoys most of them but need often dictates what we gravitate to, thus I go to my additions. Jayne

I have a lot of interests including quilting,scrapbooking, kayaking, exercising, gardening (when I feel like it), a little golfing, going to ball games, walking, etc. I have had a chance to explore more of my leisure interests since my youngest daughter graduated 5 years ago.

Great question. Deanna

Reading, piano, gardening (very hit-or-miss and lots of weeds always remain somewhere), leather-tooling, knitting, crocheting, listening to music (mainly when in my car), fooling around with the computer and trying out different things I read about in PC World and Smart Computing mags.

What other crafts/hobbies do you enjoy?
I do a lot of crocheting mostly doilies since I got the bug for thread crochet. I also love to read good fiction, working in the yard and antiquing. Computering is only a 5 year deal for me but I love it. I have also done counted cross stitch needlepoint oil painting and just about all needlwork.

I love cooking, travelling and playing bridge.

I, like Salijo, have done my crafts/hobbies in cycles, when my children were little, I made all of their clothes, and most of mine. I then did crocheting for a number of years and from there I got into knitting. Cross stitch took over for a number of years and about 5 years ago bought my very first brand new sewing machine that embroidered and I am hooked on embroidering and quilting mostly wall hangings. But last year I made my granddaughter a jumper and purchase several more patterns, perhaps that is on the horizon?

knitting, sewing historical costumes, a bit of gardening (although not nearly as much as in the past), reading, the New York Times crossword,