The Weekend Hobby Thread (3/30/24)

Good afternoon Horde. Welcome to the Weekend Hobby Thread. Some of you have been very busy and found time to share your adventures with us today.

So let's enjoy a couple of hours of fun and serenity until CBD comes along later with his music thread.

Please leave politics and current events outside at the curb. We appreciate it very much.

Well I know when I handle firewood, I always wear a pair of gloves.

Are we still in the mood to build a gun loser canoe?

There are a number of talented Morons here. Also they are brave for showing us their hobbies.

JTB has been commenting that he enjoys sketching with various types of pens. After prodding him for some time he submitted the following:

Hi Mis. Hum. JTB here. You asked for drawings, brave fellow that you are. Here are some sketches I made recently. If any are worth posting in the hobby thread feel free to use it/them. I do not regard these as art, just an attempt to acquire a fun skill. I also don't think they are good but compared to my first attempts at drawing these are worthy of Da Vinci. (Trust me. You never want to see what my earlier efforts were like. Not even suitable for surrealism.) I do want to say how much I appreciate all the encouragement you and folks on the thread have given me. It helped me keep trying to improve and experiment. Regards, JTB

Well your fun skill is coming along nicely. Thanks JTB for sharing with us today. And hopefully you keep up the good work.

Even Lurkers like to hobby away. Here is our next submission.

Hi! I love the Hobby thread. And I do dabble in the finer arts of killing time and creating whatever's convenient and works, especially if it's free. I've burped around with AI art (Bing) since last summer and accidentally came up with a few that look better than my earliest attempts. It's all a crapshoot anyway...here's a few pics I "designed".

Lurker since 2005,
Look Whats Not

Pretty nice results for a crap shoot. Now if I could get AI to help me with some of my painting hangups.

The following submission comes from AZ deplorable moron. He's a modest Moron. A pretty good with a camera.

I don't have many artistic talents but once on a while I take a good picture.

Ciampino let's us know about SpaceX launches out of Vandenberg. I caught some pics while camping. If you enlarge one of them I think I caught the 1st stage desending.

AZ deplorable moron

Our last hobby entry comes from our fiber artist Lirio100. I'll be honest. After reading the narrative and examining the photos submitted I'm not sensing relaxation.

I saw an entry on the Etsy home page for something labeled "Slow Stich kit", it looked to be odds and ends of fabric along with beads, sequins, and bits of lace, etc. I was curious and looked around the internet for information about it, and it turned out to be somewhat amusing. I found a blog article about it dated back to 2016. The idea seems intended to be something of a meditation aid (or as husband commented, becoming one with the needle). The picture with the article showed a strip of cloth made up of bits stitched together into a long strip. The idea was to simply doodle with needle and thread, specifically with *no* end, use, or purpose in mind. Supposedly the idea had been influenced by the idea of 'slow food', although I'm not sure I see the connection! The piece in the picture with the article had random stitch patterns using a running stitch, seemed more influenced by Japanese technique of sashiko.

However, that was then and now...

It's still called slow stitching but seems to have morphed into the child of collage by Victorian crazy quilt. There are kits to make Slow stitch collages, kits to make slow stitch strips to wind on spools, to make journal covers. Can even buy already made slow stitch strips to make into journal covers--and more! The picture attached is my first attempt (haven't done hand sewing in a while). It's not done, I'm trying to decide if I want to outline the bird with the fuzzy stuff. It's about 4 by 6 inches, and will be mounted in a felt paged "journal" (yep, can buy those too) I did buy some kits to try out but I'm not sure I'm finding it all that relaxing!

Lirio100

A big "Thank You" to our Morons for sharing their hobbies with us today. I hope they are here so they can expound on them more.

You can send your hobby, project photos, tips, stories to yours truly. You can also send 20/0 fan brushes, Jenkins Green Acrylic paint and art store gift certificates to petmorons at gmail dot com. Until the next time, Keep on Hobbying!

posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 05:29 PM

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