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Today's question is:
What is your first crafting memory?
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Ohh my very first crafting memory was as a little girl, I LOVED those paper doll books where you had to cut out the dolls clothes! I had a little school suitcase FULL! I never stopped loving anything to do with creating and crafting. :-)
ReplyDeleteAs young girl, sitting in my Grandmothers study as she tried to teach me to sew with her Antique Pedal (footpowered) sewing machine. My grandmother used this machine up until she died nearly 2 years ago.....she just didn't like the machine operated ones!
ReplyDeleteSimilar to Ange, my first crafting memory is of sewing, not on a foot pedel machine, but it was a hand powered one, so right hand on the handle and left hand guiding the material, the great thing was it went at whatever pace you turned the handle so was great for learning on.
ReplyDeleteI remember spending the school holidays at my nans house and her teaching me how to sew clothes for my dolls. I also remember my mum coming to school to teach us how to knit - I made the longest scarf on record I think!
ReplyDeleteI think I was about 7 or 8 when I got a little kid's sewing machine for my birthday. It actually sewed (not sure how safe that was!) and I made little puppets with it and kept them for years and years. Funny the things we remember eh?
ReplyDeleteI had a Singer sewing machine that you powered by hand - so my brother and I would make tents and clothes for Action Man and Sindy (Barbie became more popular) - I used to guide the material and my brother used to turn the handle - we were quite a team!
ReplyDeleteI have beautiful memories of sitting on the back door stoop with Grandma, when she lived with us for three months of every year, being taught to knit and crochet. She was an immensely patient woman and very loving and I associate this craft with caring, loving and giving to this day.
ReplyDeleteRita Scholz
My first crafting memory - hmmm, couldnt do any craft to save myself so it had to be drawing, i loved to draw, in leads, and I was about 8 when i started, then went on to study it at school. Didnt start any other craft until scrapbooking when i fell pregnant with my son 4 years ago.
ReplyDeleteWhen on holidays with my nanna, she would teach me to draw and paint, she was very talented and patient and I was useless, but every holidays she would persevere and 'try' to teach me....
ReplyDeleteMy first crafting memory would have to be sewing and art at school. Sewing I could manage, art I could not! First time I picked up a stamp at a little cart in Chadstone shopping Centre Melbourne, was when my interest in stamping began.
ReplyDeleteLisa H
As a little girl I received a little toy sewing machine that you had to wind with your hand to get the needle to go up and down - made some interesting creations with that.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother taught me to knit at the age of 4. She must have been a patient woman!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 5 or 6 my aunty taught me to finger knit and also make pom poms. For my birthday I received lots of cheap wool and for christmas that year I made a tree full of colourful pom poms and finger knitted "tinsel." My mum bought me my own small tree to have in my room full of my own decorations!
ReplyDeleteMy mother made me learn to knit squares, I hated knitting SO much it was horrible and she made us do some every day, but I love crochet, candle wicking, sewing and of course papercrafting all of which I discovered in my own time once I left home!
ReplyDeleteDiana
I don't know how back I can go, but I've been crafting since forever. Knitting with my grandma, making houses out of popsicle sticks, anything with paper and glue. I'm sure from 3 years old and up!
ReplyDeleteWe always made the crafts from Blue Peter or Playschool but I clearly remember my Mum teaching me to sew by helping me make clothes for my barbie dolls, I had the best dressed doll in the whole village!
ReplyDeleteMy first crafting memory is of making those friendship bracelets for my friends at school. Braiding and knotting floss, I am sure others remember these!!
ReplyDeleteMy earliest memory is of my Gran teaching me to knit clothes for my barbie. Mum had me sewing and crocheting very early on too. I loved finger knitting, and paper dolls...I've enjoyed reading all the responses so far and they've brought back some lovely memories.
ReplyDeleteMy first crafting memory is of my mum, using fimo clay to make gumnut people out of the gumnuts we collected together from the backyard. She was always doing something crafty, sewing, painting on shirts, and managing to take care of five children. She really is an amazing woman.
ReplyDeletelearning to knit when in grade 3
ReplyDeleteAnne Wakefield
being surrounded by mums crafty goodness
ReplyDeleteWell that is bringing back memories, my nanna and I crocheted coathangers when I was quite young, my mum instructed in knitting but I did not enjoy that one. I did alot of craft when I was a little older - Tracy Marsh books were my favourites (don't know if anyone knows about her), photo frames etc. Then there was sewing but that only came along at high school.
ReplyDeleteSticking paddle pop sticks together with glue to make a box for my mum! :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... does cutting up your mum's tape measure inch by inch count.... I do remember that...
ReplyDeleteAs for me doing anything, it would have to have been hobbytex doilies.
Cheers
Sonia
My very first crafting memory is watching my Nana knitt. I used to sit on the floor and watch her.
ReplyDeleteKimberley
Making our own "knitting nanna" out of toilet rolls and matchsticks then making the longest tubes which I always thought as a 7 year old would make the best rugs ever...no rug was ever made just hundreds of knitted tubes, lol.
ReplyDeleteMy first memory was making clothes for our Barbie Dolls on mum's knitting maching and also sewing them. I learnt lots of crafts from my nana and have tried just about everything.
ReplyDeleteMy first crafting memory is of my Nanna teaching me how to knit.
ReplyDeleteI have so many - because I was so very BAD at anything crafty as a child my mum and two sisters would laugh at me.
ReplyDeleteI was always trying to copy my sisters work but it would never look the same.
The memory that sticks in my head is when my mum made my school sewing project in yr 9, I got 10/10 then the next one I did by myself and got 2/10.
I shall say my mum nearly fell over backwards when she found out I signed up to Stampin' Up!, but she loves my work now :-)
I can remember making my dollies dresses on Mum's old Singer sewing machine.You really had to get a peddle up to keep the needle moving.I can also remember running over my finger with the needle.It was a mistake I can only remember making once.I do still sew even after all that pain so long ago.
ReplyDeleteChristine D
My love for stationary goes way back into my childhood. My sister (a uni student at the time, becoming a teacher) took me to Woolridges (a school supply store) and when I saw the stamps and the stickers ... it was love at first sight.
ReplyDeleteI remember making "art" with dried flowers that I made using a dried flower press that I received for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMy first memory of doing craft was when I was in Primary School and we were daught how to do string art. I remember lots of nails on a black back ground and us stringing some nice picture art. That's the 70's for you.
ReplyDeleteI can remember sitting on the floor at my mum's feet learning how to sew by sewing buttons onto a scrap of cloth. Mum had a tin with hundreds of buttons in it - I used to love picking them up and letting them pour through my fingers.
ReplyDeleteMy nanna taught me to crochet and my grandma taught me to knit. I love the whole generational aspect of crafting!
Do you know its hard to remember that far back!!!! Anyway one very special 1st crafting memory was doing embroidery with my now departed sister. I know I must of been around 9 years old and she is 5 years older than me!! We used to sit and embroider together. Other things like french knitting drawing and modeling clay can't remember exactly but the embroidery with my sister is the fondest and specialist early memory. Thanks for making me remember and share with you that special time. Michelle S
ReplyDeleteMy first crafting memory would be my Mum teaching me to knit - about 5y.o. I have always been surrounded by crafty things, cross stich being another.
ReplyDeleteI have two first crafting memories that spring to mind. Both as a young girl. 1. My grandma teaching me to hand stitch, we made a doll's outfit. 2. My father teaching me to knit, he had knitted as a young boy at school!!!
ReplyDeleteGlenda Karrasch
The first crafty thing I remember doing was with scissors... chopping my fringe off in Kindy!
ReplyDeleteThe first productive thing I remember was my Nan teaching me to knit. I really wish I could remember how to do it now!
Ohh I have a distant memory of going to my Nana's after Church one Sunday - and she let me use her paints. She was an amazing portrait painter. I was very luck to use her Craft items. I must have only been about 4 or 5. Chantell
ReplyDeleteI remember sitting in my Mum's sewing room, surrounded by material of all different colours. I loved mixing and matching all the different colours, patterns and textures.
ReplyDeleteNot sure which came first, but I have two distinct memories. I had my own toy sewing machine, that REALLY worked!! (Clearly didn't practise enough, 'cos I can't sew to save my life now!) When I was in primary school, on school holidays Mum used to drop my sister and me at a holiday crafts programme. We made MACRAME pot plant holders - am I showing my age?!
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