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Rhonda 07-01-2010 02:27 PM

I'm good with kids and dogs does that count? LOL I have dabbled with making dolls a few years ago. I like to do crossstitch tho don't find the time to do it much anymore.I can crochet but my tension isn't always even.
I write poetry mostly silly stuff but some more serious contemplative things. I posted a lot of it in my PDA when I first started it.

fabric-holic 07-01-2010 02:47 PM

Well back in the late 60's and early 70's I was a hippie and the macrame queen! Macrame shower curtain, hammock, window curtains, belts, hanging plant holders, hair things, dog collar, on and on. I was a nut! Now I can't stand to even look at anything macrame.
Nowadays other than quilting, I sew clothes, home dec, knit, crochet. Used to do counted cross stitch but my eyes aren't as young as they used to be.

abonda 07-01-2010 04:02 PM

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I also love to garden and create landscaping projects. I love to oil paint and make pottery. I'm kinda like Martha Stewert a lille bit of everything.

this was a prayer garden in the woods i made
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center piece I made for christmas
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A Painting I made of my sisters dog
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Pineapple Princess 07-01-2010 04:08 PM

I'm a historical re-enactor and I do a ton of cross-stitching.

QuiltingGrannie 07-01-2010 04:27 PM

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Used to:

Photography - (weddings, landscapes, nature, events - sold them as cards, one was a post card, one or two published in photography books,) I photographed the Jonesborough Quilt fest one year, and their Garden Walk one year.

Crochet - only Granny Squares

Wood burning and paper burning.

Glass etching.

I've also written poetry since a teen ager - Three of which are published.

Glass etching of the Last Supper
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Paper Burn of Jesus
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Wood burning tri fold - other side is identical
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Afghan I made for Granddaughter
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One of my favorite photos
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aneternalpoet 07-01-2010 04:28 PM

I used to cross stitch ( 25 years of joy!), but can't see now. so I took up quilting.. just poke my nose every now and then being to close to the needle/throat plate - guess I missed the poking of my fingers when stitching. But, I am a poet, and avid gardener , and ever busy weed puller. So many other things I do, but like most quilters, I return to that which I love - fabric, and sewing machine!

CarrieAnne 07-01-2010 05:00 PM

I cant post pictures, no camera! I love organic gardening, can embroder pretty well.used to love cross stich, but have a hard time seeing the squares now!

oksewglad 07-01-2010 05:07 PM

Another poet here--published in Lyrical Iowa--the annual anthology of the Iowa Poetry Association. Have even placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Haiku division of the contest.

aneternalpoet 07-01-2010 05:11 PM

Awesome, poet friend! I have had several poems made into recorded songs from a musical friend of mine in Tacoma, Washington. He is working on a project with a record company right now, with 2 songs taken from my poetry.. The CD will be used as a way for a foreign country ( can't recall which ) to learn to plant, and grow, and harvest trees for their impoverished country. The CD title will be named The Mercy Tree , which is what my poem was called.
Amazing sometimes to know that words can turn into something bigger than what the poem was meant to become.

JudyG 07-01-2010 05:51 PM

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I used to do a lot of counted cross stitch, but my eyes don't allow that any more, so I do machine embroidery. Here are some of the fun things I've done.

Also, I like to just sew. I'll attach the flower girl dress I made for my son's wedding. It was soooo cute. The tulle on top was doubled and we filled it with silk rose petals. Then we pulled it up over her head just before she walked down the aisle and petals were falling in her skirt as she was spreading rose petals down the aisle. It was fantastic.

Embroidery on Toilet Paper
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Eagle
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Fruit Towel
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Flower Girl Dress (before the rose petals inserted)
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Ring Bearer Pillow
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