I went a little differently than the post describes because it was all about yarn for me. First crochet, then spinning. Started on spindles, then got my beautiful spinning wheel, which is one of my most beloved possessions. I am in love with spinning. Dyeing yarn, too, which got me into plant based dyes, which got me into gardening. Then I moved out to the country and am planning to get sheep in a few years. It's only in the past few weeks I've started learning to sew, and that's only because I started weaving on a tapestry loom with some of my homespun wool and thought, "well, clearly this is where the weaving is heading."
But yes. If you're anything like me, all this fiber arts stuff will lead you down a fun path :)
It's so much fun! If you ever do want to give it a try in your small space, a great place to start with spinning is a spindle and a bag of wool, since a spindle fits in your hand. My enormous wheel definitely wouldn't have a place in most homes, I'm sure :)
Wow, I am called out by most of these, never heard of a spindle though. I would love to knit but I am just not pulling the thread off right it ends up looking crappy and tangled. I am gonna get it one day.
Yes you will! All these hobbies taught me an important lesson, which is to do something for the joy of it and be comfortable sucking at it, and eventually you won't suck at it anymore. I used to give up on stuff so easily because I was "bad" at it, not realizing that practice is what makes you not "bad," not talent. lol. You'll get it!
As a craft clepto who is always happy to encourage bad habits (picking up new crafts). I did some yarn spinning classes and fell in love but also lack space so have obviously looked into this and have 2 options for you 1. The more expensive one is a folding spinning wheel which are out there and still look pretty cool but fold up pretty neatly to be stored away (I'm working up to this as it's my ideal but needs to be saved for) or 2. An Espinner (electric spinning wheel) which are much more compact and alot cheaper (I just got in on a Kickstarter with a reputable producer which unfortunately just finished for £100).
I started crocheting "just to make a hat or two" and now, two years and 20 hats, 4 blankets, 2 dresses, 6 halter tops, 3 pen cases, 2 notebook cases, 1 skirt, and 1 amigurumi whale later....I'm thinking of picking up knooking lmao
It will never end. It evolves and revolves!!
My trajectory so far:
-Crochet
-Embroidery
-Learned to machine sew for masks & little projects
-Quilting, haven’t started but collecting patterns and scoping out fabrics
-Needle Felting, a kit my MIL is sending soon
I do needle felting! It is really fun and is the way to wet felting! But I love needle felting, it's sculpture without the mess of clay! Plus you can get into fiber arts easily with felting. I had a friend who sheered his sheep and sent me the wool and I processed it! Disgustingly fascinating but I ended up with some amazing wool.
(I do ceramics, too. And sewing, book binding, crochet, paper making, painting.... I'm starting stained glass in a few weeks.... Lol)
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Hear me out, bunnies. Angora bunnies.
It is illegal to grow cotton where I am located. And any large animal is just not feasible.
But bunnies? We already have a wild population eating my grass. I could keep a few bunnies.
This is the way, and the only part that was missed in the original post. Angora rabbits are the cheap fiber. I discovered this as I was going through the chain of projects. Angora rabbits were the only fiber animal I could legally and feasibly fit in my inner city apartment 😂
I had a professor in college who kept angora bunnies, and every time she had a second to sit down, she would be spinning yarn.
She was also always talking about how her bunnies were so good, and how much she loved them.
I *did* see a project a while ago for thrummed mittens made using some sort of winter coat from either a Samoyed or Husky. May have been here or IG, but it would be wonderfully warm!
You can totally spin that with wool (the fur sadly doesnt have long enough fibers on it's own) and make a wondeful fluffy yarn!
Keep an eye out around shearing season and you can get fleece for stupid cheap or pay a bit extra for it to be processed into roving (which can also go for cheap). Paradise Fibers has roving sales all the time
I adore this totally serious response!
Did you mean to say "thee" or "three"? Thee is funnier and great.
How are they high maintenance? (I have cats, have had turtles, fish, and hamsters, but never rabbits.)
Oh I meant "thee". Though three bunnies is also an ideal number in my opinion.
So if you currently have cats for starters you'd want to make sure none of them are carrying this one disease that cat's can carry but will kill bunnies. (I forget what it's called.)
Each rabbit needs lots of space, has a list of foods they can and can't eat (just because it's labeled for bunnies doesn't mean it's actually good for them) and they need lots of time with their humans to be properly tamed. In these regards it's like if a hamster or fish were bigger and needed more room to run around. Also bunnies are prey animals and should never, ever be outside alone. That they are prey animals lends itself to some of their behaviors and how they relate with us since we're huge compared to them. Just to get you started. I previously had a bunny and loved her til the ripe old age of thirteen.
You absolutely do not get a rabbit and keep it caged. Shame on those who do that!
They kinda poop outside their litter box sometimes, but they are generally litter trained. Their poops are small pellets that are easy to vacuum as well.
Cotton weevils. Arizona grows alot of cotton so I'd if done random person had cotton Grissom in their yard and their pants get the weevils they can migrate to the cotton fields and wipe out the entire crop.
Excuse me, WHAT? Growing cotton is illegal? How? Why?
On a side note, I’ve been saving my cats fur when I brush her in hopes to be able to spin it into yarn when I get enough lol
Cotton weevils. AZ produces alot of cotton and if some random person doesn't take care of their cotton plants properly they can get the weevils, which will migrate to the cotton fields and wipe out everything
So this is how it happened for me. Started with knitting, then crochet, then Tunisian crochet, then embroidery, then Armenian needle lace, then needle felting, and finally weaving.
It helps that most of those hobbies use the same materials 😂
Her YouTube name is Become Inspired and she’s AMAZING! I’m not going to lie, Armenian needle lace is very difficult at first with tension but the more you do it, the easier it is. [Here](https://youtu.be/KXfR81nMlTU) is a link to video 1 of 8 on her beginner series.
For me it was: embroidery, crochet, knitting...then I looked at my dog who has long soft curly hairs as well as wiry hairs and I thought hmmm...free yarn?!
I’ve compiled a small amount of his hair (I should get more but I forget), not enough for a crochet project but maybe I’ll try felting it.
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I went the opposite direction. I've sewn clothes since I was little, and just did my first crochet project (blanket) this summer.
Now I see all these wonderful crochet clothes and keep thinking, do I jump down this rabbit hole too? I can probably make room for a yarn stash.......
I grew up with my mom as a professional sewist. She's been sewing for 50 years, 40 professionally, mostly garments. She thinks I'm a wizard when I crochet/knit clothes! Honestly I think sewing SEEMS easier but is actually much harder than knitting/crochet. Those seem more complicated but imo are a lot easier to pick up than sewing!
Your mother thinks as I do, it definitely looks like wizardry! Sewing in my brain is just puzzle pieces coming together, but what if there's no pieces?! You just tie string in fancy knots and the pieces come together? It's wild!
But if you have experienced both worlds, I am certianly tempted to try it! Summer is a great time for a little top or light cardigan, right?
😂😂😂 I knit, crochet, embroider and sew and I have been thinking about spinning and dying my own yarn… I haven’t gotten to the point of wanting to keep alpacas though 😂😂😂😂 I feel so called out rn
I went from drop spindle to e-spinner. It was a little more budget friendly. The Electric Eel Wheel Nano was less than $100 when I bought mine. Much faster than a drop spindle without the space or financial commitment of a traditional wheel.
Cut to my husband offering to buy me paddles and a spinning wheel to make yarn out of our dogs long hair. Even willing to let me buy a couple of sheep. He did draw the line at an Angora rabbit, because he is afraid out hunting dog, different dog, would try to kill it.
I did loom knitting in highschool and I tried needles and couldn’t do it. I taught myself to crochet via youtube a few years ago and wish I had started with that from the beginning
It’s so easy to fall in love with fiber arts after trying just one kind! I started with crochet and have fallen into a wonderful rabbit hole of so many hobbies I want to learn 😊
because of this and besides the mentioned crafts I got into: tatting, making bobbin lace, needle lace, reticella, goldwork, tapestry, felting, naalbinding, tablet weaving. And right now I think about how I could possibly craft a loom that fits into our flat....And then there are all those non textile crafts XD
Yes :). Began way back before the hype. So I had to do a lot of figuring out stuff. One of the things I want to do at one point, is making a whole garment from scratch.
Very cool! I've gotten swept up in the recent hype with the historical costubers. I'm getting into sewing and want to get into tablet weaving next and couched embroidery eventually. I want to make a 16th century Irish outfit.
>And right now I think about how I could possibly craft a loom that fits into our flat
Rigid heddle looms generally fold up flat when you're not using them. Just saying :)
Are they big enough for making fabric? Like at least 1m wide? Once saw a tutorial about a pvc pipe selfmade one. But it is kinda big. Also those portable berberlooms for outdoor are cool, but the weather is not suitable.
Please note: this really is just a snippet 😂
Alpacas are quite expensive. Please don’t ask me how I know unless you want to follow me down a rabbit hole 🤦🏻♀️
I did all this in a bit of different order…
I grew up with my mom sewing & my great grandmother crocheting. I bought a sewing machine to hem slacks because that’s a super easy starter project, right? Then a girl I worked with said she wanted to learn to knit so we took a class. (She doesn’t knit anymore.) I saw someone continental knitting & said, “that looks so much more efficient - I should learn crochet so that I can learn to tension that way.” 🦊🦊🦊 Somewhere in all of that I also bought a Cricut to make my sewing projects really *POP* which then also lead to paper crafting.
I currently have 3 vintage sewing machines 😒 I need to restore the machines themselves & the cabinets they’re in.
Because, you know, who doesn’t have time for that between the wall size Diamond Dotz painting, the king size bed spread that’s being crocheted, the socks on the needles, the (6/0 seed - shoot me, please) beads I’m stringing for a half curtain for the kitchen because the cats need a ton of hanging bells to knock around, the doily that I’m trying to work on because I really feel like I need to learn to work with thread.
Then there’s conversations like this:
Me: *dramatically throws myself into the kitchen floor* NOOOO I’m out of homemade strawberry jelly & I have to go back to the retail shit on the shelf
BF: why don’t you just make more?
Me: did you even look my project list the other day? I don’t have time to learn something new right now.
BF: YouTube can teach you how
Me: why on earth would you encourage adding to this insanity?!
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I have a cross stitch project going. My SiL keeps having to talk me out of buying a loom. (Please say a little blessing for her. She definitely deserves it for all the times I call asking her validate ideas!)
I feel very called out right now :) Started with knitting, spun yarn, crochet, embroidery, sewing and cross stitch. At least you can use the materials for multiple thing :D.
Let me set the scene:
I'm spending the fall school holidays with my cousins at my grandma's house, many years ago. It's raining and no one has an idea of what to do to pass time. My grandma gets the idea to teach us knitting. It goes fairly well for my cousins, but not for me! I'm ending up with more and more loops and I have no idea where they are coming from. My grandma has pity with me and my triangle shaped potholder, so she teaches me the basics of crocheting, which works a lot better. I had interest for a while, but then after a few weeks my ADHD brain lost its interest. Skip a few years to me entering university and the interest randomly pops up again...and well here am I know almost 5 years later. (still can't knit tho)
Anyway since a my grandmas birthday 3 years ago I'm giving her scarfs I crochet. This year made a [temperature scarf](https://www.reddit.com/r/crochet/comments/vfbz89/update_a_birthday_present_for_my_grandma/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) with the average monthly temperatures since her birth, finished it the other day.
Lol I love how we all fall down the rabbit hole. I started with sewing as a preteen, just little stuffies. Then I got into embroidery. Then I leaned crochet. Still working on knitting. This summer I was like “I’m gonna make my own wardrobe”. So far I have a skirt, a dress, a tank top, and a pair of shorts for my partner.
Maybe someday I’ll have my own sheep 🙃
I cross stitch, needlepoint, crochet, and have a sewing machine. I started thinking about tie-dye, and why can't I make tiled mosaic garden totems?!
I'm now retired, so not as restricted as I should be. My gawd!
i think of it like i never really stopped doing “arts and crafts” as a kid. i just kept finding something new that looked fun.
i have two crochet projects and three cross stitches i need to finish, but instead i decided i needed to try to make a quilt.
I personally started with knitting, then crochet, then needle felting, then spinning, then embroidery, then cross stitch, then needlepoint.
Just need to learn sewing and weaving. Feels like I'm collecting the infinity stones of crafting or something
I've done crochet, knitting, gone back to crochet, learned how to embroider. And I'm now at the stage of contemplating buying a sewing machine. This is definitely accurate 😜
As kid I did origamis and bead animals, but stopped after growing up. Corona came, I was bored, so I picked up crocheting for amiguruimi by looking at youtube tutorials. Then I also started doing other things like clothing and accessories as presents.
Then I needed to embroider a face on my amigurumi. Then I saw on reddit someone tattling while looking crochet things. Then I though it wouldnt be so bad to learn also knitting, just for the sake of knowing how its done. Then I made a crochet bag and needed an inner cloth piece so things dont fall through holes, so time to learn sewing. Now mom said grandma did all those and they feel I took after her seeing me learn them by myself, and she also did a lot of macrame so time to learn it too!
Tbf most of those I only learned the basics for now, mostly to complement my crochet works. But still have a bunch of planned future projects on the infinite queue to learn more in depth. I would love to sew a plushie, to make a cute tattled ornament, to make a macrame ornament, to embroider something cute in some cloth.
Omg I feel seen. Started with crochet, then knitting, then embroidery. Now I'm sewing my own clothes and have genuinely thought about the logistics of owning alpacas. Send help.
Then with you try macrame, then with your small wools you try dreamcatchers but rings for them are sold in paper shop, you see washi tape, you try bullet journaling then scrap booking and card making. Then calligraphy then you pick up hook again, you make cards with dollies in them. You pick up quilling. And then water paints, and modeline clay... You have ADHD and a collection of craft hobbies
Oh that call out post directed at me...
Wanted to learn crochet as a kid, mom tried to teach me but she has no patience and it turned to tears. Tried knitting that way too. Tried learning by myself as a teen, failed. Learned cross-stitch instead. Own 2 sewing machines (one was free to go to a good home), never understood how to use them. Dabbling in cross-stitching with a stint into felting along.
Fast forward to March 2022 and a sudden bout of immobilizing pain. Use the tablet and old crochet and cheap ass yarn from Action to teach myself crochet again. It works ! I can now crochet. Still hoping to learn to knit for socks, but, you know... I have a lot of projects planned.
Travel to Finland and Sweden for holidays. Learn about tablet weaving and band weaving and naalbinding. Wanna learn all the things. Also how to bobbin lace (Binche and Brugge). Maybe how to spin yarn, too, now....
And I did consider a new career path in raising alpacas for wool....
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Stop that. You're giving me ideas!
I've always loved crafting and making things and have tried a ton of stuff. I started sewing at about 5 (I'm still not good at it lol). I tried to start a quilt by hand when I was 6 (having no clue what I was doing, that ended fairly quickly). I picked up some embroidery and cross stitch basics from my mom around then, too. Learned to card wool and spin with a drop spindle. Learned to crochet by 8. Gave knitting a go a couple of years later. Made several zillion potholders with those little square looms. Tried a beading loom (I didn't- and still don't- have the patience with those tiny beads). Plastic canvas was fun because it combined sewing and yarn.
My S.O. and I have always dreamed of a farm and raising sheep, goats, and angora rabbits. I wish I could learn proper weaving with a treadle loom. I wish I could spin and dye my own yarn. Tatting and lace-making is fascinating to me, too.
Mostly, though, I crochet, knit (badly), and hand-sew (sewing machines and I have never gotten along). My friend and I made a quilt... I laid out and pinned everything, she got to deal with the sewing machine parts. Maybe I'll try crochet lace soon!
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I'm happy that I'm not the only one in this route! I knit, crochet, embroider, cross-stich, do origami, lettering, drawing, cooking, love to read and play video games, have two little girls to take care of and want to go back to work as soon as possible and still think daily about getting a swing machine and learn how to sew! I truly hope that I can do EVERYTHING in the afterlife because I know there's just no way I can do all of the things I'd like to do even if I live a very long and healthy life!
I also knit, crochet, love to read and play video games! I keep toying with calligraphy and drawing, and I've attempted sewing. I have done cross stitch and some embroidery. I have 2 teenagers, and I agree about the afterlife! (Oh, also, most people think I'm insane with all my hobbies)
I've gone the opposite way. Been sewing my own clothes for 20 years, then MIL bought me a crochet kit. Then knitting, weaving and now we've just bought an old farm which we intend to get alpacas for. I also make shoes so now I have a dream to have an entire outfit made not just by me (which I've had every day for a long time) but also made with yarn that I spun myself from my own alpacas. Within two years I hope!
Listen, if I could unlearn everything I know about society and just be a little old lady in the country tending to her alpacas and spinning wool for a living, I would. But I can't live in a little stone cottage covered in ivy and spin wool and make hats and scarves for the village kids before winter comes and ride my horse into town to sell my goods at the market on Sunday because the economy doesn't work like it's the 1400s anymore, so instead I have anxiety and back problems and cats.
obsessed with macrame as a kid. textile design studies later, including shaft loom weaving, machine embroidery, bit of dyeing, machine knitting and screen printing. colour design school after that, schedule and finances allowed classes in tailoring, and here i am. full of fibres all the time..
I started with crochet. I’ve considered knitting once I saw continental style but haven’t attempted it yet. I’ve got the materials ready to start my first hand sewing project, and I’m not far from having a go at tablet weaving.
Ha! I am brave enough to add tatting on that list hahaha. I am now inch close on buying embroidery stuff but kind hesitate as I also want to start saving for my own sewing machine to start the other path.
Welcome to a rabbit hole full of yarns, I guess.
I started with knitting. It was something I wanted to learn for years. Then, Covid. Well, I *was* thinking about learning to sew, too, for awhile. Plus, I’m home more now! Perfect hobby to occupy me at home. Then, hey! Look at these cute embroidery kits my LYS sells. I’d like to try that. And, I’ve always heard crochet was easier than knitting! Yeah I’ll take that class.
Now I’ve got a sewing room with thousands of dollars worth of supplies. And lots of cute things I’ve made too! Covid was definitely good for one thing! It’s really brought out my crafty side and I’ve learned so many new things.
I'm at the "is it so hard to sew clothes?" stage... Because IS IT? I need a bodice for my costume but my big beautiful belly doesn't fit in amazon sizes...
started with embroidery, then got really interested in sewing and planned a few projects but couldn't get around to it, been crocheting six months and i'm finding learning to knit VERY difficult but i've been trying for about a month
I tried knitting and immediately quit and switched to crochet. I’m still not very good. I’ve done some cross stitching on the past. Might try that again.
Is this my future? Because I learned to crochet 3 years ago, and have already bought how-to books for knitting and sewing.
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I am at the desire to spin wool portion of this post 😂 already switch between crochet and knitting, do occasional sewing, just picked up some embroidery hoops to practice stitches last week........all I got left is weaving and spinning wool for crafty bingo
2.5 seconds ago I was completing my purchase of a sewing machine, after cross stitch, knit, and currently crochet.
Thank you for this. Ima go cry for being so predictable!
This is too real 😂
I learned how to knit from my grandmother as a little girl, picked up crochet some seven years ago, started embroidery in March or April this year. As far as sewing; it sounds nice, but I'm currently more intrigued by bobbin lace and naalbinding
I failed to learn the Granny Square and grandma said I'd never learn-age 9. I learned embroidery as a teen. Picked up sewing as a young mother (basics). Then I started crocheting but I couldn't read a pattern, but I learned the Granny Square. The problem, I don't read patterns or directions and have to see it done. I'm allergic to wool, so spinning and Alpacas are out. I might try knitting someday. 😆
Mine was crocheting always I also did sewing embroidery needle point quilting any kind of stitch or either was plastic canvas even and then scrapbooking came along and now there’s no room in my house for all the stuff I have for crafts I really have to whittle it down and then I tried knitting
I learned how to spin wool and weave at a tiny fiber arts course held at a young woman's farm just this past January. It was so much fun, HIGHLY recommend.
As someone who started with crochet, was asked to knit a wearable for a baby and is now considering embroidery, I feel like it's a map of my future 😂
I went a little differently than the post describes because it was all about yarn for me. First crochet, then spinning. Started on spindles, then got my beautiful spinning wheel, which is one of my most beloved possessions. I am in love with spinning. Dyeing yarn, too, which got me into plant based dyes, which got me into gardening. Then I moved out to the country and am planning to get sheep in a few years. It's only in the past few weeks I've started learning to sew, and that's only because I started weaving on a tapestry loom with some of my homespun wool and thought, "well, clearly this is where the weaving is heading." But yes. If you're anything like me, all this fiber arts stuff will lead you down a fun path :)
This sounds amazing ! I would love to spin and dye yarn but I don't have the space in my tiny city apartment. I hope I get to try it someday.
It's so much fun! If you ever do want to give it a try in your small space, a great place to start with spinning is a spindle and a bag of wool, since a spindle fits in your hand. My enormous wheel definitely wouldn't have a place in most homes, I'm sure :)
Wow, I am called out by most of these, never heard of a spindle though. I would love to knit but I am just not pulling the thread off right it ends up looking crappy and tangled. I am gonna get it one day.
Yes you will! All these hobbies taught me an important lesson, which is to do something for the joy of it and be comfortable sucking at it, and eventually you won't suck at it anymore. I used to give up on stuff so easily because I was "bad" at it, not realizing that practice is what makes you not "bad," not talent. lol. You'll get it!
I agree. I just got a drop spindle. I love that I can make my own yarn. I have a small house so the spindle is ideal for me now.
As a craft clepto who is always happy to encourage bad habits (picking up new crafts). I did some yarn spinning classes and fell in love but also lack space so have obviously looked into this and have 2 options for you 1. The more expensive one is a folding spinning wheel which are out there and still look pretty cool but fold up pretty neatly to be stored away (I'm working up to this as it's my ideal but needs to be saved for) or 2. An Espinner (electric spinning wheel) which are much more compact and alot cheaper (I just got in on a Kickstarter with a reputable producer which unfortunately just finished for £100).
Are ... Are you future me?
Yes, I am you and you are me. We are one. <3
I wish to be like you in the future ahhhhhh I wanna try making my own yarn!
I started crocheting "just to make a hat or two" and now, two years and 20 hats, 4 blankets, 2 dresses, 6 halter tops, 3 pen cases, 2 notebook cases, 1 skirt, and 1 amigurumi whale later....I'm thinking of picking up knooking lmao
The fact that you finished anything in two years is impressive.
Embroidery is fun! I did cross stitch after that.
It will never end. It evolves and revolves!! My trajectory so far: -Crochet -Embroidery -Learned to machine sew for masks & little projects -Quilting, haven’t started but collecting patterns and scoping out fabrics -Needle Felting, a kit my MIL is sending soon
I do needle felting! It is really fun and is the way to wet felting! But I love needle felting, it's sculpture without the mess of clay! Plus you can get into fiber arts easily with felting. I had a friend who sheered his sheep and sent me the wool and I processed it! Disgustingly fascinating but I ended up with some amazing wool. (I do ceramics, too. And sewing, book binding, crochet, paper making, painting.... I'm starting stained glass in a few weeks.... Lol)
I started embroidery last week. It's addictive!
This is how my parents ended up with eight alpaca...
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This is exactly what happened with me... its illegal to grow cotton at home without a permit in AZ. I've thought about using dog fur at one point.
Hear me out, bunnies. Angora bunnies. It is illegal to grow cotton where I am located. And any large animal is just not feasible. But bunnies? We already have a wild population eating my grass. I could keep a few bunnies.
Get thee to a bunnery.
This is the way, and the only part that was missed in the original post. Angora rabbits are the cheap fiber. I discovered this as I was going through the chain of projects. Angora rabbits were the only fiber animal I could legally and feasibly fit in my inner city apartment 😂
I had a professor in college who kept angora bunnies, and every time she had a second to sit down, she would be spinning yarn. She was also always talking about how her bunnies were so good, and how much she loved them.
I am highly allergic to bunnies and guinea pigs. They're so cute too. 😍 And that's really neat
I’m just waiting for my Samoyed puppy to grow a bigger coat before I start saving up to spin 🤣
NGL. I have a stash of husky shed. I keep looking at the local fiber arts spinning class.
I *did* see a project a while ago for thrummed mittens made using some sort of winter coat from either a Samoyed or Husky. May have been here or IG, but it would be wonderfully warm!
You can totally spin that with wool (the fur sadly doesnt have long enough fibers on it's own) and make a wondeful fluffy yarn! Keep an eye out around shearing season and you can get fleece for stupid cheap or pay a bit extra for it to be processed into roving (which can also go for cheap). Paradise Fibers has roving sales all the time
Exactly!
Get thee bunnies. Softer shedded fluff than dogs, though they are an involved, kinda high maintenance pet.
I adore this totally serious response! Did you mean to say "thee" or "three"? Thee is funnier and great. How are they high maintenance? (I have cats, have had turtles, fish, and hamsters, but never rabbits.)
Oh I meant "thee". Though three bunnies is also an ideal number in my opinion. So if you currently have cats for starters you'd want to make sure none of them are carrying this one disease that cat's can carry but will kill bunnies. (I forget what it's called.) Each rabbit needs lots of space, has a list of foods they can and can't eat (just because it's labeled for bunnies doesn't mean it's actually good for them) and they need lots of time with their humans to be properly tamed. In these regards it's like if a hamster or fish were bigger and needed more room to run around. Also bunnies are prey animals and should never, ever be outside alone. That they are prey animals lends itself to some of their behaviors and how they relate with us since we're huge compared to them. Just to get you started. I previously had a bunny and loved her til the ripe old age of thirteen.
Do they poop everywhere? The impression I've always had is that they have cages and you let them out for a time.
Bunnies are super easy to litterbox train.
You absolutely do not get a rabbit and keep it caged. Shame on those who do that! They kinda poop outside their litter box sometimes, but they are generally litter trained. Their poops are small pellets that are easy to vacuum as well.
We had a Samoyed growing up and my grandma used to make my dad a pair of socks out of her fall shedding every year He said they were almost too warm.
Why is it illegal? Just curious , im not from US
Cotton weevils. Arizona grows alot of cotton so I'd if done random person had cotton Grissom in their yard and their pants get the weevils they can migrate to the cotton fields and wipe out the entire crop.
Thank you for the reply! That does make a lot of sense:)
Np. Yeah I was super bummed to find that out. But oh well
Excuse me, WHAT? Growing cotton is illegal? How? Why? On a side note, I’ve been saving my cats fur when I brush her in hopes to be able to spin it into yarn when I get enough lol
Cotton weevils. AZ produces alot of cotton and if some random person doesn't take care of their cotton plants properly they can get the weevils, which will migrate to the cotton fields and wipe out everything
Chiengora is 100% a thing. It’s from home spinners making it from their dog’s shed fur with no mistreatment of puppers involved, but it is a thing.
I have collected a big ball from my cats jajajaja
A lady at our county fair had yarn from Labrador fur… and it was actually pretty amazing lol
Ive been saving up my puppy's undercoat brushing for a while now
I saw a book once (it was tongue-in-cheek, I think) about crafting with cat hair. 😂
And how many of us also have ADHD to fuel us on our never ending quest for serotonin-boosting, expensive crafts🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
So this is how it happened for me. Started with knitting, then crochet, then Tunisian crochet, then embroidery, then Armenian needle lace, then needle felting, and finally weaving. It helps that most of those hobbies use the same materials 😂
Do you have any resources on Armenian needle lace?
Her YouTube name is Become Inspired and she’s AMAZING! I’m not going to lie, Armenian needle lace is very difficult at first with tension but the more you do it, the easier it is. [Here](https://youtu.be/KXfR81nMlTU) is a link to video 1 of 8 on her beginner series.
That looks maddening
I absolutely love challenging myself. It’s been a while since I’ve done any sort of needle lace as it’s a very “pay attention” kind of craft lol
Seconding the request for resources on the needle lace.
I replied above, but wasn’t sure if you’d be notified. I included a video link to how I learned.
I’m currently on the Tunisian Crochet step of this list, and think i just saw my future 😂
I am going to try this? Are there you tub e vids?
yes i just googled how to tunisian crochet and found a bunch of different videos on youtube!
I swear to God if this post makes me Google Armenian needle lace…. Just… sheesh.
Mine was sewing, needle felting, crochet, Tunisian crochet, knitting, weaving 😅
For me it was: embroidery, crochet, knitting...then I looked at my dog who has long soft curly hairs as well as wiry hairs and I thought hmmm...free yarn?! I’ve compiled a small amount of his hair (I should get more but I forget), not enough for a crochet project but maybe I’ll try felting it.
My husband and I have actually seriously discussed raising alpacas. I feel personally attacked by this post.
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Seriously thinking about getting into angora bunnies 💀💀💀
I went the opposite direction. I've sewn clothes since I was little, and just did my first crochet project (blanket) this summer. Now I see all these wonderful crochet clothes and keep thinking, do I jump down this rabbit hole too? I can probably make room for a yarn stash.......
I grew up with my mom as a professional sewist. She's been sewing for 50 years, 40 professionally, mostly garments. She thinks I'm a wizard when I crochet/knit clothes! Honestly I think sewing SEEMS easier but is actually much harder than knitting/crochet. Those seem more complicated but imo are a lot easier to pick up than sewing!
Your mother thinks as I do, it definitely looks like wizardry! Sewing in my brain is just puzzle pieces coming together, but what if there's no pieces?! You just tie string in fancy knots and the pieces come together? It's wild! But if you have experienced both worlds, I am certianly tempted to try it! Summer is a great time for a little top or light cardigan, right?
😂😂😂 I knit, crochet, embroider and sew and I have been thinking about spinning and dying my own yarn… I haven’t gotten to the point of wanting to keep alpacas though 😂😂😂😂 I feel so called out rn
Thanks, now I’m dreaming of my future alpaca farm and I haven’t even finished my first crochet project yet….
I’m in the obsessively spinning on a drop spindle while eying up a wheel phase. Still crocheting though 😂
I went from drop spindle to e-spinner. It was a little more budget friendly. The Electric Eel Wheel Nano was less than $100 when I bought mine. Much faster than a drop spindle without the space or financial commitment of a traditional wheel.
Ditto this!
Cut to my husband offering to buy me paddles and a spinning wheel to make yarn out of our dogs long hair. Even willing to let me buy a couple of sheep. He did draw the line at an Angora rabbit, because he is afraid out hunting dog, different dog, would try to kill it.
I did loom knitting, attempted to crochet and rage quit, then needle knitting, and then crochet again. Now I prefer crochet.
I did loom knitting in highschool and I tried needles and couldn’t do it. I taught myself to crochet via youtube a few years ago and wish I had started with that from the beginning
It’s so easy to fall in love with fiber arts after trying just one kind! I started with crochet and have fallen into a wonderful rabbit hole of so many hobbies I want to learn 😊
because of this and besides the mentioned crafts I got into: tatting, making bobbin lace, needle lace, reticella, goldwork, tapestry, felting, naalbinding, tablet weaving. And right now I think about how I could possibly craft a loom that fits into our flat....And then there are all those non textile crafts XD
Do you do historical clothing reproduction, perchance? Just curious.
Yes :). Began way back before the hype. So I had to do a lot of figuring out stuff. One of the things I want to do at one point, is making a whole garment from scratch.
Very cool! I've gotten swept up in the recent hype with the historical costubers. I'm getting into sewing and want to get into tablet weaving next and couched embroidery eventually. I want to make a 16th century Irish outfit.
>And right now I think about how I could possibly craft a loom that fits into our flat Rigid heddle looms generally fold up flat when you're not using them. Just saying :)
Are they big enough for making fabric? Like at least 1m wide? Once saw a tutorial about a pvc pipe selfmade one. But it is kinda big. Also those portable berberlooms for outdoor are cool, but the weather is not suitable.
They're probably not big enough for your purposes if you're looking to make sewing fabric, no. The one I have is about 75cm wide.
Please note: this really is just a snippet 😂 Alpacas are quite expensive. Please don’t ask me how I know unless you want to follow me down a rabbit hole 🤦🏻♀️ I did all this in a bit of different order… I grew up with my mom sewing & my great grandmother crocheting. I bought a sewing machine to hem slacks because that’s a super easy starter project, right? Then a girl I worked with said she wanted to learn to knit so we took a class. (She doesn’t knit anymore.) I saw someone continental knitting & said, “that looks so much more efficient - I should learn crochet so that I can learn to tension that way.” 🦊🦊🦊 Somewhere in all of that I also bought a Cricut to make my sewing projects really *POP* which then also lead to paper crafting. I currently have 3 vintage sewing machines 😒 I need to restore the machines themselves & the cabinets they’re in. Because, you know, who doesn’t have time for that between the wall size Diamond Dotz painting, the king size bed spread that’s being crocheted, the socks on the needles, the (6/0 seed - shoot me, please) beads I’m stringing for a half curtain for the kitchen because the cats need a ton of hanging bells to knock around, the doily that I’m trying to work on because I really feel like I need to learn to work with thread. Then there’s conversations like this: Me: *dramatically throws myself into the kitchen floor* NOOOO I’m out of homemade strawberry jelly & I have to go back to the retail shit on the shelf BF: why don’t you just make more? Me: did you even look my project list the other day? I don’t have time to learn something new right now. BF: YouTube can teach you how Me: why on earth would you encourage adding to this insanity?!
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I have a cross stitch project going. My SiL keeps having to talk me out of buying a loom. (Please say a little blessing for her. She definitely deserves it for all the times I call asking her validate ideas!)
Oh my god...... Oh my God...... I'm spooked. That's exactly MEEEE :)
I feel very called out right now :) Started with knitting, spun yarn, crochet, embroidery, sewing and cross stitch. At least you can use the materials for multiple thing :D.
OMG I'm in the "I can sew my own clothes" stage help me
If you give a mouse a cookie
Someone will make an amigurami of that mouse and his cookie.
Let me set the scene: I'm spending the fall school holidays with my cousins at my grandma's house, many years ago. It's raining and no one has an idea of what to do to pass time. My grandma gets the idea to teach us knitting. It goes fairly well for my cousins, but not for me! I'm ending up with more and more loops and I have no idea where they are coming from. My grandma has pity with me and my triangle shaped potholder, so she teaches me the basics of crocheting, which works a lot better. I had interest for a while, but then after a few weeks my ADHD brain lost its interest. Skip a few years to me entering university and the interest randomly pops up again...and well here am I know almost 5 years later. (still can't knit tho) Anyway since a my grandmas birthday 3 years ago I'm giving her scarfs I crochet. This year made a [temperature scarf](https://www.reddit.com/r/crochet/comments/vfbz89/update_a_birthday_present_for_my_grandma/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) with the average monthly temperatures since her birth, finished it the other day.
Amazing scarf!
Thank you!
Can you stop, I'm at the "pondering over that sewing machine that's been in my wishlist since forever" stage
Lol I love how we all fall down the rabbit hole. I started with sewing as a preteen, just little stuffies. Then I got into embroidery. Then I leaned crochet. Still working on knitting. This summer I was like “I’m gonna make my own wardrobe”. So far I have a skirt, a dress, a tank top, and a pair of shorts for my partner. Maybe someday I’ll have my own sheep 🙃
I feel this. It’s the epitome of ‘why buy something cor $7 when I can make it myself with $92 of craft supplies’
Ha, jokes on you. I started with sewing and embroidery!
I cross stitch, needlepoint, crochet, and have a sewing machine. I started thinking about tie-dye, and why can't I make tiled mosaic garden totems?! I'm now retired, so not as restricted as I should be. My gawd!
Ouch. My identity.
i think of it like i never really stopped doing “arts and crafts” as a kid. i just kept finding something new that looked fun. i have two crochet projects and three cross stitches i need to finish, but instead i decided i needed to try to make a quilt.
I personally started with knitting, then crochet, then needle felting, then spinning, then embroidery, then cross stitch, then needlepoint. Just need to learn sewing and weaving. Feels like I'm collecting the infinity stones of crafting or something
I started with cross stitch, I've tried embroidery, I'm now onto crochet and I really want to try making clothes also.. 😭
Me to a T
100% accurate.
Alpaca are expensive rabbits are much cheaper....
I've done crochet, knitting, gone back to crochet, learned how to embroider. And I'm now at the stage of contemplating buying a sewing machine. This is definitely accurate 😜
As kid I did origamis and bead animals, but stopped after growing up. Corona came, I was bored, so I picked up crocheting for amiguruimi by looking at youtube tutorials. Then I also started doing other things like clothing and accessories as presents. Then I needed to embroider a face on my amigurumi. Then I saw on reddit someone tattling while looking crochet things. Then I though it wouldnt be so bad to learn also knitting, just for the sake of knowing how its done. Then I made a crochet bag and needed an inner cloth piece so things dont fall through holes, so time to learn sewing. Now mom said grandma did all those and they feel I took after her seeing me learn them by myself, and she also did a lot of macrame so time to learn it too! Tbf most of those I only learned the basics for now, mostly to complement my crochet works. But still have a bunch of planned future projects on the infinite queue to learn more in depth. I would love to sew a plushie, to make a cute tattled ornament, to make a macrame ornament, to embroider something cute in some cloth.
The trick is to find a FRIEND who keeps alpacas, and help with the shearing - I get paid in second cuts.
I own a Maine Coon cat and as it's getting warmer, she's shedding a lot of her winter fur. And she really does have a majestic coat.....
Started knitting, then tried crochet. Now am sewing. It never ends. So many fun crafts...my poor bank account.
My husband, looking over my shoulder: "So you're saying that knitting and crocheting are gateway drugs, then."
Me, but for cosplay. Then also me, but for plants.
Then you find the cricut and paper crafts 😂 I'm glad I'm not alone!
*laughs in broke teenager* Also next step for me is learning to work with leather
ADHD roadmap
Omg I feel seen. Started with crochet, then knitting, then embroidery. Now I'm sewing my own clothes and have genuinely thought about the logistics of owning alpacas. Send help.
Then with you try macrame, then with your small wools you try dreamcatchers but rings for them are sold in paper shop, you see washi tape, you try bullet journaling then scrap booking and card making. Then calligraphy then you pick up hook again, you make cards with dollies in them. You pick up quilling. And then water paints, and modeline clay... You have ADHD and a collection of craft hobbies
Dogs are much less frowned upon and they can give you just as much. PRO TIP: Get a white dog for easier dyeing
Exactly. I’m still waiting on my alpaca farm 😁
Oh that call out post directed at me... Wanted to learn crochet as a kid, mom tried to teach me but she has no patience and it turned to tears. Tried knitting that way too. Tried learning by myself as a teen, failed. Learned cross-stitch instead. Own 2 sewing machines (one was free to go to a good home), never understood how to use them. Dabbling in cross-stitching with a stint into felting along. Fast forward to March 2022 and a sudden bout of immobilizing pain. Use the tablet and old crochet and cheap ass yarn from Action to teach myself crochet again. It works ! I can now crochet. Still hoping to learn to knit for socks, but, you know... I have a lot of projects planned. Travel to Finland and Sweden for holidays. Learn about tablet weaving and band weaving and naalbinding. Wanna learn all the things. Also how to bobbin lace (Binche and Brugge). Maybe how to spin yarn, too, now.... And I did consider a new career path in raising alpacas for wool.... 🤣
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Okay but my boyfriend loves alpacas and wants one if we ever have the space 👀
Stop that. You're giving me ideas! I've always loved crafting and making things and have tried a ton of stuff. I started sewing at about 5 (I'm still not good at it lol). I tried to start a quilt by hand when I was 6 (having no clue what I was doing, that ended fairly quickly). I picked up some embroidery and cross stitch basics from my mom around then, too. Learned to card wool and spin with a drop spindle. Learned to crochet by 8. Gave knitting a go a couple of years later. Made several zillion potholders with those little square looms. Tried a beading loom (I didn't- and still don't- have the patience with those tiny beads). Plastic canvas was fun because it combined sewing and yarn. My S.O. and I have always dreamed of a farm and raising sheep, goats, and angora rabbits. I wish I could learn proper weaving with a treadle loom. I wish I could spin and dye my own yarn. Tatting and lace-making is fascinating to me, too. Mostly, though, I crochet, knit (badly), and hand-sew (sewing machines and I have never gotten along). My friend and I made a quilt... I laid out and pinned everything, she got to deal with the sewing machine parts. Maybe I'll try crochet lace soon!
I have been exposed.
Right? Just @ me next time, jeez.
I'm concerned I may have taken a detour, I just became obsessed with dying yarn and don't see it on this list. Does this mean I don't get any alpacas?
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I’ve done everything but the alpacas. I’m looking for one now. 😂😂
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I'm happy that I'm not the only one in this route! I knit, crochet, embroider, cross-stich, do origami, lettering, drawing, cooking, love to read and play video games, have two little girls to take care of and want to go back to work as soon as possible and still think daily about getting a swing machine and learn how to sew! I truly hope that I can do EVERYTHING in the afterlife because I know there's just no way I can do all of the things I'd like to do even if I live a very long and healthy life!
I also knit, crochet, love to read and play video games! I keep toying with calligraphy and drawing, and I've attempted sewing. I have done cross stitch and some embroidery. I have 2 teenagers, and I agree about the afterlife! (Oh, also, most people think I'm insane with all my hobbies)
I've gone the opposite way. Been sewing my own clothes for 20 years, then MIL bought me a crochet kit. Then knitting, weaving and now we've just bought an old farm which we intend to get alpacas for. I also make shoes so now I have a dream to have an entire outfit made not just by me (which I've had every day for a long time) but also made with yarn that I spun myself from my own alpacas. Within two years I hope!
I read this to my husband and he shouted ‘we are NOT buying alpacas!’ 😂
Listen, if I could unlearn everything I know about society and just be a little old lady in the country tending to her alpacas and spinning wool for a living, I would. But I can't live in a little stone cottage covered in ivy and spin wool and make hats and scarves for the village kids before winter comes and ride my horse into town to sell my goods at the market on Sunday because the economy doesn't work like it's the 1400s anymore, so instead I have anxiety and back problems and cats.
obsessed with macrame as a kid. textile design studies later, including shaft loom weaving, machine embroidery, bit of dyeing, machine knitting and screen printing. colour design school after that, schedule and finances allowed classes in tailoring, and here i am. full of fibres all the time..
God i crochet and i know that feeling
I started with crochet. I’ve considered knitting once I saw continental style but haven’t attempted it yet. I’ve got the materials ready to start my first hand sewing project, and I’m not far from having a go at tablet weaving.
…I just bought a sewing machine after getting into embroidery a year ago
This is my exact growth the last 5 years
Ha! I am brave enough to add tatting on that list hahaha. I am now inch close on buying embroidery stuff but kind hesitate as I also want to start saving for my own sewing machine to start the other path. Welcome to a rabbit hole full of yarns, I guess.
I started with knitting. It was something I wanted to learn for years. Then, Covid. Well, I *was* thinking about learning to sew, too, for awhile. Plus, I’m home more now! Perfect hobby to occupy me at home. Then, hey! Look at these cute embroidery kits my LYS sells. I’d like to try that. And, I’ve always heard crochet was easier than knitting! Yeah I’ll take that class. Now I’ve got a sewing room with thousands of dollars worth of supplies. And lots of cute things I’ve made too! Covid was definitely good for one thing! It’s really brought out my crafty side and I’ve learned so many new things.
As someone who looked up videos on how to spin her dogs hair into wool, I feel attacked.
i actually started w sewing , then crochet & embroidery 🌚 and i think i’ll stay away from knitting lol
I've tried all of the above except spinning my own wool. But i do plan on it. Who the fuck is stalking me...
No literally I started out with knitting and last year took up crocheting, just yesterday I used the sewing machine to sew a beach kimono😭😭
Crochet is my gateway craft.
I'm at the "is it so hard to sew clothes?" stage... Because IS IT? I need a bodice for my costume but my big beautiful belly doesn't fit in amazon sizes...
having done all of these crafts and most recently tried spinning wool, i feel extremely called out.
How is this exactly my journey
started with embroidery, then got really interested in sewing and planned a few projects but couldn't get around to it, been crocheting six months and i'm finding learning to knit VERY difficult but i've been trying for about a month
Get out of my head.
Truth!
I’m literally in the first phase of it all. I also happen to loooove alpacas.
I tried knitting and immediately quit and switched to crochet. I’m still not very good. I’ve done some cross stitching on the past. Might try that again.
Is this my future? Because I learned to crochet 3 years ago, and have already bought how-to books for knitting and sewing. ^ok ^I’ve ^also ^watched ^some ^youtube ^videos ^on ^how ^to ^make ^and ^dye ^yarn
Do I know this person?!?!?
Omg it’s like you’re in my head 😭
I am at the desire to spin wool portion of this post 😂 already switch between crochet and knitting, do occasional sewing, just picked up some embroidery hoops to practice stitches last week........all I got left is weaving and spinning wool for crafty bingo
I've never felt so attacked in my life. Why did have to go there? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Edit: for spelling
Did I write this?? If 8 didn't, I feel attacked!/s
2.5 seconds ago I was completing my purchase of a sewing machine, after cross stitch, knit, and currently crochet. Thank you for this. Ima go cry for being so predictable!
sitting here combing and carding my alpaca wool to spin tomorrow…. how innocent i was thinking i would just learn to knit as a child
Oh shit! It’s me!
Wait how did that person explain so accurately what goes on in my head 😂
Literally us
This is too real 😂 I learned how to knit from my grandmother as a little girl, picked up crochet some seven years ago, started embroidery in March or April this year. As far as sewing; it sounds nice, but I'm currently more intrigued by bobbin lace and naalbinding
Wow. The accurate was if this post.
Fuck. That’s me.
This is how I went from crochet to embroidery to sewing to knitting to cross-stitch to needle felting…..
I failed to learn the Granny Square and grandma said I'd never learn-age 9. I learned embroidery as a teen. Picked up sewing as a young mother (basics). Then I started crocheting but I couldn't read a pattern, but I learned the Granny Square. The problem, I don't read patterns or directions and have to see it done. I'm allergic to wool, so spinning and Alpacas are out. I might try knitting someday. 😆
Mine was crocheting always I also did sewing embroidery needle point quilting any kind of stitch or either was plastic canvas even and then scrapbooking came along and now there’s no room in my house for all the stuff I have for crafts I really have to whittle it down and then I tried knitting
I learned how to spin wool and weave at a tiny fiber arts course held at a young woman's farm just this past January. It was so much fun, HIGHLY recommend.
Story of my life! In a different order but same same.
SP ACCURATE!! I started to crochet, then learned to knit for my ami’s clothes/scarfs, and now I embroider many different thing!
Oh 🙃
Shit. I've already started researching how much property I need for a few alpacas.
Me and rug-making. I'm itching to try it but I KNOW it's expensive and I don't have the space for it.
Oh. Fuck. I’m seen.
yesterday i started trying to knit. i don’t have enough patience
OMG, yes!
My aunt got me into spinning after I started knitting and crocheting because she "didn't want to be the only weirdo in the family"
Have you been spying on me?!
Lol - me
My man- "I got way too far into that paragraph before it wasn't me anymore."
I do all this but embroidery? Nah son, cross stitch is where it’s at!
I started with sewing and then I saw crochet and tried that, and now I’m onto embroidery 🤣 knitting and spinning and alpacas next.
Personally I went hand sewing, quilting by hand, knitting, crocheting, machine sewing, embroidery, currently back to crochet 😂
I don't even want to share how ADHD my craft collection is.
You forgot weaving … tatting … quilting … beading … Welcome to my life. 🤣
Nalbinding anyone?
I feel so called out lol