[DD1] A craft I'd like to learn but haven't (yet)

[kaberett]

In fact there are several. Quickly & in passing on my way to bed:

Sewing. The better to surround myself with functional beauty: quilts and shirts and cushions and blankets.

Calligraphy. For the occasional functional beauty; because it would make me happier to write letters; because I like frivolous beauty too.

Woodworking. Also for the functional beauty. I want to be able to make myself tools, and I like wooden implements, so. There we go!

(Perhaps tomorrow I will not leave it til I am crashing out, heh.)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

That sounds actually like one of my motivations for learning knitting and crochet.

[afuna]

Yessss. Ummmmm oh man if you do ever get started with calligraphy, I would be happy to geek out about nib types or inks any time /o\

[naath]

Hand sewing is pleasantly meditative (you do the same thing a lot) but can be hard on the hands. Machine sewing is faster and probably more useful but also very noisy.

[davidgillon]

Calligraphy

Looks at dyspraxic hands, looks at spider-scrawl. Nope, not even going to try that one! But all power to you if you can.

Woodworking.

Did that for a couple of years at school, and produced a somewhat wonky plant-pot stand (and a rather more functional trowel in combination with metalwork), but there is actually a sort of pleasure to it even when you aren't very good. And the smell of woodshavings, so evocative...

[thatyourefuse]

I have a friend who is very keen on calligraphy, and I'd be very tempted to let her get me into it if my fine-motor skills weren't so... idiosyncratic; she seems to be deriving a great deal of pleasure from it.

(As is, I can read my own handwriting. I quite like my own handwriting. I type whenever possible.)

[redsixwing]

Ooooh. Sewing is lovely, except when it's frustrating as all heck.
That's the same as any craft, really.

The pleasure of wearing something made with one's own hands is a fine thing.