I joke that I have "crafter's ADD" - I get interested in something, dabble a bit, then I either move on or I turn OBSESSED for several years. The obsession moves beyond the craft itself and into tools of the trade and other associated things.
Like, I used to make soap. I became obsessed, opened my own soap company (actually made profits too) and started collecting antique soap molds.
Bookbinding almost went the same route, I got to the point where I was bidding on antique book presses online but never won any and that obsession got subsumed by something else so I never bought one.
Sewing...well, here I am!
I'm a maker-of-things, an artist, a tinkerer, a grease monkey...
Partially I credit my Dad - he was a mechanic and a tinkerer too, always fixing SOMETHING. I was his little grease monkey, always fascinated with what he was doing and asking a thousand and one questions. Some of my happiest memories involve the smell of motor oil.
