Do you refer to your quilting as a "hobby"?
#111
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kansas City Mo
Posts: 1,603
I call all of my crafts hobbies as well as art Wheb I spend big bucks on making a piece of jewelry or a quilt they are both still hobbies as it is something I do in my leisure time. i admitt making a greeting card or scrap book page is more hobby but it is still an art. I consider my altered art a hobby as well as making crafts with kids both hobby and an art for them
#115
To me a hobby is what you do in your spare time. Therefore I'm going to make house cleaning my hobby and quilting what I have to do. I will have no spare time for my hobby of housecleaning! LOL!!!!
#116
Originally Posted by so-sew
I'm unsure where my distaste for the word "hobby" stems from, but it feels like people are minimizing the commitment a quilt requires when they refer to my quilting as a "hobby". Stamp collecting is a hobby. I like to think of it more as an art form, in which I have "vision", and then skillfully bring that to fruition. Just curious how you all feel about it. :?
#117
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 145
I don't think most people mean to trivialize quilting by calling it a hobby. They just don't understand the time, effort and expense involved in making these works of art. Just tell everyone you are a fabric artist! That should get their wheels turning.
#118
Maybe the word "avocation" sounds better?? means the same I think, but it means doing something you really enjoy outside of a full time occupation. I do it because I want to, not because I have to, or receive money for it. Hobby is just a word and much better than some being used these days. :)
#119
I don't have a problem with the word hobby but for me quilting is more than that. I guess I would say it is a passion what makes me who I am as a person. And I do not do mending, I always say to people when they ask me to do mending or repair something, would you ask Picasso to paint your garage? So maybe that means quilting is my art!
#120
Originally Posted by sewmom
To me a hobby is what you do in your spare time. Therefore I'm going to make house cleaning my hobby and quilting what I have to do. I will have no spare time for my hobby of housecleaning! LOL!!!!
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