Crafting Aint For Sissies

Crafting ain’t for sissies. You have to have patience, perseverance, and persistence. You will also need to keep an open mind and have a willingness to learn new things. Yes, most crafts are steeped in tradition. As in, a traditional way of creating some things. These are great but sometimes there may be other techniques that can be used to create something new and exciting. As with any artistic endeavors, most of the crafts we create reflect our inner visions. That is when you can truly be called an artist. Once, you learn a technique there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to use these and expand on them.

So, if you started out being a traditional crafter, and learned how to do things from one of your older family members but then tweaked those techniques to create new and different items we hope you will share them with us. My mom was always willing to learn new things and liked to figure out how to create items that we kids and grandchildren liked and hoped she would create. Once she saw a picture of something she had me look for a pattern and/or video on how to make it. Then she would put her own twist on it once she figured out how to create them by using her own style in colors and adding tweaks to the pattern. Below are some pictures that my youngest son sent over for his grandma to try and create. She never got a chance to try to create them for him.

He was also the one who sent us the picture of the dragon scale gloves that we still offer for sale. Mom made them all through the year and we hope to sell out this Christmas as we have in previous ones. Of course, my son got his pair first and we gave away some for Christmas presents the first year. The pattern we purchased and the video we watched had the scales going all the way around the fingers. We had a custom request to make the inside palm side smooth to make it easier to grab hold of steering wheels and for typing. So mom worked at it and after a couple of tries she figured out how to do that. They turned out really nice. Now if I can only get my oldest daughter, who loves to crochet, to figure it out. Sadly, Mom did not have time to teach her. I only have about 20 pairs left on the online store https://swconlinestore.com/product-category/hand-crocheted-wearables/hand-crocheted-arm-warmers/

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