What are your other hobbies?
 

I saw someone posting about their jigsaw puzzle addiction and it rang a bell for me. I wonder how many of us have similar hobbies?

Just a year ago before Christmas I was just starting in with my interest in vintage machines and knew I wanted to learn to quilt. It was last years resolution. I made my first quilt last year start to finish and now can safely say I am a quilter. ) My sister in law saw how many sewing/quilting things I had asked for that previous Christmas and asked me with concern "how do you know you'll like it?" Easy, it incorporates all the things I love!

I like sewing, jigsaw puzzles, brain teasers, researching stuff, and vintage machines. I'm a crafter, I love attention to detail, I'm a perfectionist and can get a little OCD sometimes. I also have a tendancy to collect and to be drawn to the unusual. I have kept parrots, and have less than the usual breed dogs...a Chinese Crested (hairless) and Havanese (cuban). One of my past hobbies was building 1/12 scale dollhouses.

What about everyone else?

Piano, fantasy football, reading.
I used to build doll houses too. I hope to pick it up again someday now that we have a bigger home and more room for things like that.

Making soy candles, raising few chickens, gardening, and old time movies. Im more busy now in retirement than when I was raising kids and working. I used to crochet doilies and table cloths but good ole Arthur came for a visit. Now im working on building a heritage memory box for my family members which they will get some day. Till then I have 4 dogs, 1 ancient cat and 8 chickens-4 very large raised garden beds, a son and a grandson and a DH who I cook for and tend too. My life isn't complicated, just busy being full of many blessings.

when I take time off from quilting(lol) I also knit,crochet,embroider,counted cross stitch,needleturn applique.I stay so busy that sometimes I wish I was not addicted to all kinds of hand work.

Gardening, woodworking, crochet, quilting, reading. There are lots of things I like to do but don't consider them hobbies like: working on my old house, building houses with HFH, old cars, dresses for DGD, writing the occasional story, making broken thing work. Yeah, I stay busy.

When I want to do something other than quilting I am an avid wool rug hooker, I also do locker hooking, punch needle and sometimes I just want to knit or crochet something. I do a lot of different crafts thought the year but quilting and rug making consume the most of my time

Woodworking, vintage woodworking machinery,it has all the same attractions as vintage sewing machines though the machines are larger and heavier, gardening, though I'm pretty bad at it, and beekeeping.

I started with vintage sewing machines and quilting because Olivia wants to learn to sew. It turns out I like it as much if not more than she does. It fills the need for something I can do in the winter. Since my heavy lifting days are done the sewing machines fill the gap left by having a shop full of woodworking machines and not being able to handle them like I once did. I can run them but rebuilding them is much more difficult now. I also get cold very easily and my shop isn't heated. I can mess with old sewing machines indoors.
Rodney

Fishing. nothing better than a fish fry of fresh caught bluegills.

I'm like rodney , life time of woodworking, Damn as it now turns out yeppers my tooling there is vintage ( new tools) the old stuff goes down as antique :(.

In the other side it's all metal banging bending . Then stick it back together, again thats all vintage, antique junk. even the machine that make steel smaller. I haven't repair this one yet , it does work

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not sure gardening is a hobby as much as it's away of life. Now days a supply of editable food.

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when I am at a loss for hobbies, I revert back to the 70's and do this. don't cry I sold my yougo for a wego

I mean we do need a vintage sewing machine getting machine right ?

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on day I'm bored and out of quilting thread . the hobby turns to watching That cat, Trukeys, deer, mowing grass, digging ditches. course I pay a lazy guy to do all that along with going after and cleaning all my machines . He works cheap.

The upcoming hobby is inventing a machine that picks up thread from the floor, puts it back together in a long enough piece to reuse. right after I bungie jump from a Hot air balloon.
or stop hanging out on sewing machine web sites posting useless photo's. butt it sure is warmer sitting by the heater .