crafts and hobbies #61: craftspiration!

Crafting time! Now that the hardest part of my summer is over, I thought I'd tackle these crafting posts. Here goes!

1) I like crafts, but I am not always all that crafty. Does that make sense? I spend a lot of time looking at crafting blogs and wishing I could sew or knit or decoupage as well as that person, but I'm just not all that crafty. (I do knit, and I'm actually fairly good, but that's the extent of it.) I have previously spent a lot of time on Craftster and Instructables, but have yet to make anything I've found there.

For this post, I spent some time browsing through a few of the tags on One Hour Craft. I hate to admit it, but I am unimpressed with that site. For many of the crafts under the teen crafting tag, the picture link is broken. Why would I make a craft if I have no idea what the finished product is going to look like? That is poor craft blog design. The blogger clearly needs to host the pictures herself instead of just borrowing them from outside sources. I am also unimpressed with the quality of the crafts on that site, so didn't find anything I wanted to make.

I tried to find something on Repurposeful but, while I did find some handy hints, I didn't find anything worth crafting. BUT! I did find this little pincushion on a blog I check frequently. I would like to make this.

2) As far as crafting tutorials go, I like a combination of written (with pictures, always!) and video. It really depends on what it is that I'm trying to learn how to do. With knitting, for example, if the stitch doesn't make sense as described in words, I usually search YouTube for a tutorial. (You can find anything and everything on YouTube. I swear it is so.) Sometimes a good video is the only thing, short of an actual person teaching me, that makes the stitch work in my mind.

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