Check-In Post November 16th 2020

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

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Today's Question: What was the first thing you remember making?


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Comments

[m_findlow]

Still nothing to report today, lol. But I did go to the "actual" office. So weird after so long but the train was empty as was most of the office, just a pain wearing masks when you leave your own little office all the time. But hey, I got to use my one hand sewn mask, so that's craft! It was still hot to wear but looked nicer than black ones or disposables, since I used old patchwork fabrics.
I think my first proper craft was probably quilling. We saw it at the first craft show we ever went to and mum bought me a starter kit and a book of quilling designs which I still have. After that I remember being twelve and at a shop on holidays on the Gold Coast where we discovered rubber stamping (yes, a whole wondrous shop dedicated just to rubber stamping! Those were the days!). I was amazed at the magic of embossing powder and we bought so much stuff there, back when it was super expensive. Still have all that too, the stamps and all the little ink pads in every possible shade, and a heat gun we bought at the hardware store for melting the embossing powder. After twenty five years they're still wet, too, almost as good as the day we bought them. The multicolour pads were the best with all the different strips together so you could use one stamp but have it look like it changed colour on the paper.
I really want to get all of that stuff out again and play with it. Sigh... So little time!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Mom used to visit a few rubber-stamping shops in San Luis, Salinas, and Cambria in my college days. The ones in San Luis and Cambria are still there, though I can't imagine they do very good business lately.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for wearing your hand made mask! Eve though it w because you had to go out. (My masks have been a folded piece of fabric and two rubber bands but I got a couple of washable masks today).

I've never done quilling, although my aunt did some. I do however have lots of rubber stamps and ink pads, and yes, some of them are the kind with lots of colours in one pad. I'd love to get them out again but like you, no time right now. Hopefully there will come a time when both of us can have fun with our stamps. I've got a lot of the clear ones and the perspex blocks they cling to so they're easier to position, as well as the traditional kind.

Never used embossing powder either but it's another thing I'd love to try.

[froodle]

I'd not heard of embossing powder or rubber stamping as a craft activity until this moment, and it sounds INCREDIBLE.

[badly_knitted]

Does require a fair amount of kit though, but the stamped pictures can then be coloured in, which is relaxing. I haven't tried embossing powders, that's a little more complicated, heating them up.