A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2006 Your Hidden (or open) talents?

Angelblossom,
You told me to register the Gardner's Forum and i finally did. Little did I know I would find out your song writing secret! Call me!

Jayhawk (you know who this is)

Jayhawk.... Well It about time you registered!!
Now you should post about your talents as well, especially your basket weaving , they are wonderful !!So may different types and uses!!! don't forget to post picturess we love picture here,,
Yep I always have a song in My Heart, and lyrics in my head.
Talk to ya soon!!

I have been weaving baskets for about 4 years. I use reed, not grass or willow or split oak. I've included a link to some pictures of some of my baskets. I haven't taken a picture of the one most appropriate for this forum, a tulip basket, but I will soon.

http://photobucket.com/albums/i13/akyjayhawk/

You do beautiful work Jayhawk...
I did some baskets a long time ago...
We went to a basket weaving parties....
It was alot of fun...
Haven't done one in years though..
Don't know if they still do those kind
of parties any more...

The only thing I remember is you have to wet the stuff to work it, so it bends easier...
and the gods' eye.....

I love that one, that has a lime green open look.

Very nice you do beautiful work jayhawk!!

My username kind of gives it away. If it involves a piano, that's me. I'm currently a piano teacher & accompanist. I'm also a retired piano technician.

I also love DIY home remodeling/painting, and home improvements.

The basket with lime green is also one of my favorites. It's a double wall basket but the outside wall is rather airy don't you think.

I've never heard of basket making party's but they sound like a lot of fun. Basket making, like many crafts, is more fun when doing it with others. I take classes from a wonderful teacher and somtimes our classes do more socializing than basket making!

I am also learning to quilt but I don't have anything I'd want to put on-line just yet. I need more practice there!

Thanks for your comments,

Jayhawk

I forget to tell you that I sell some of the baskets. If anyone would like one, contact me privately and we can discuss price and color.

Thanks,
Jayhawk

Love all of the talents. Your baskets are awesome Jayhawk.

Let's see. Other than kid raising and gardening, I love to bake, crochet and cross stitch. Scrapbooking is another of my joys!

Thanks, Triss for your wonderful comment.

I have an Aunt that does cross stitch and it's one thing I think I'll let her take care of. My daughter is also learning the art of cross stitch so I have it covered with an older and younger generation. Both of them are now working on something for me!
I guess I'm pretty lucky as I don't have the patience.

Jayhawk

I do mine off and on. Was on a big roll for a while but then my hands started hurting. Will do more once they stop.

Wow. This site is just full of talented people. I've always been jealous of those with musical talent. I love to listen to music but have never been able to create any or play an instrument beyond band.

Those baskets are beautiful!! What nice work.

And the blue painting has some awesome potential.

My talent, other than gardening, is designing quilt patterns and quilting. I like the designing way more than the sewing. My favorite thing is to take a new pattern from my head, get it on paper, figure out how much fabric I'll need, and then go buy it all. I love the cutting and the figuring, and then, meh, I have to sit down and sew for a long time. I'm much better at starting projects than finishing them, so I had to make a rule: I'm not allowed to start anything new until the current project is done. D.O.N.E. done. Not "almost" done.

The rule works, most of the time. I'm still relatively new at quilting, compared to most--I sewed my first quilt top in 2001. Since then I've sewn about 15 I think, and several have been from my own patterns.

The funny thing is, I am such a pattern-aholic that when I am planting flowers it's almost impossible for me to just put them in willy-nilly. I have to step back and think and decide exactly how to make the flower pattern work out--I'm talking about throwing a few petunias in the ground for goodness sake, it takes me forever just to decide which one goes where.

Smiling as I read this. QUilting is one thing I really want to start doing but it is going to have to wait until I get all the kids in school so I actually have time to do it without lil fingers in the way! Can we see pics?

Triss--thanks for your interest. I've had so much fun making quilts--I just sew the quilt tops, I don't actually do much quilting. But I have tied a few baby quilts. I have most of my quilts in a yahoo album so I can share them with my mom.

Link to Stuspot\'s quilt album on Yahoo.

WOW! Those are amazing. I especially love the cats one and Autumn. You are very talented! Those stuffed animals are just adorable too!

Thanks Triss! Those two, the cats and the autumn one, are my own designs. I made the cats for my SIL, and the autumn one was made by my quilt club--we raffled it off to raise money for our group.

I am currently taking a break from quilting as summer approaches and gardening beckons. When I sew now, I am busy making more stuffed bunnies for all my new family members.

I tend to craft more in the winter as well though I am now working on a baby afghan.