Art and crafts lessons (in the past)

It is great that you are able to use the things that you learned about sewing. It sounds like you are very active and make many things for your family. I never got very good at sewing and today I wouldn't be able to sew clothes or things for our home, but I use the skills from the arts and crafts classes in other ways especially the things that I learned about knitting. Tonight I knit many different things for myself and for my husband. At the moment I am knitting a blanket and that is big project and it will take a long time to finish it, but I enjoy it a lot, so I am happy to spend my time on it.

Yes, I am very happy that I learned to knit in elemantary school. I learned those things 25 years ago, and today I still like to knit so it was a very useful thing to learn. In my country art and crafts lessons are compulsory for both girls and boys so everyone learns how to sew, knit etc. In the past the girls were the only ones who had to learn those things, but today everyone has to learn the same things. We also learn to make things out of wood. I liked those lessons, but I was never especially good at wood work. Did you have other kinds of creative lessons in elementary school or did you only have theoretical subjects?

hi porcospino. it was a good class as we did different projects every week. i wish i had paid more attention though because back in the day, i wasn't interested in art as a subject probably because it was only an elective subject. it was only later on in my life that i got interested in drawing, painting, and photography. we also had a subject similar to what you are wrote about. in grade school, the girls had home economics wherein they were taught how to cook, sew, do the budget of the household, do the laundry ... basically home managment skills. us boys had woodworks or metalworks as an elective. we also had gardening. anyway, on my last two years in grade school, both girls and boys had to take both subjects. our class was divided into two groups. one group took home economics int he first two gradings while the other one took the other elective and then by the third and fourth gradings, the groups switched subjects. i didn't like both elective classes honestly but i did manage to learn a lot. lol!

That art and crafts class you had sounds interesting to me because I love art. The youngest students at my school had a subject where we had to draw, paint and make things out of clay. Our teacher loved clay and we often had to make sculptures out of clay. We also used paper mache sometimes. In the 4th grade we got a new subject and we had to learn to sew, knit and many other things. I was never good at sewing and even today I don't know how to sew. I could be interesting to learn in one day, because I would like to sew my own clothes. Maybe I will learn it one day

In my country they used to divide the subjects according to your gender so that the girls learned to cook and the boys learned woodwork. At that time they didn't think that boys needed to learn to cook as their wife would do that, but today everyone has the same subjects. Both boys and girls learn to cook and both boys and girls learn woodwork. I was not good at woodwork. We had to make a dishmat that looked like a fish and it was supposed to be round, my fish was not round at all because I kept making mistakes It was interesting to hear you learned gardening. We don't learn that at all. We don't learn things about laundry or budgets either, we only learn to cook and learn different kinds of crafts.

Hi Porco! Knitting is a very challenging task, because you have to end what you began. And knitting is very useful too. My mom has knitted since I have memory, she knitted us a lot of vests, sweaters, scarfs, socks, and now she has knitted for her grandsons. Knitting is not my success! I´m not used to have the patient to begin a knitting project and to end it all. Can you imagine that I have a neverended vest, I began it almost 14 years ago and I cann´t finish it. Or should I say I´m so lazy that I don´t want to finish it. I don´t know! Maybe knitting is not for me. But in the other had I love cross stitching. I sew a Last Supper Cross stitch, it took me 10 years to finish it, but I finished it and it´s framed in our dinning room. But I can´t do knitting. I don´t know why. I think each of us has some abilities to make some things, and disabilities to do anothers. I´d love to have knitted some lovely sweaters! It would be nice if you upload some of your finished works. Blessings Porco... dainy

Thanks for sharing the picture of your cross stitch project. It is a beautiful We did some cross stitch projects in the arts of crafts lessons, but since that time I haven't really used the things that we learned. Some years ago I bought some materials for a cross stitch picture, but never really got started because I have learn everything from the beginning again. I still want to learn cross stitch and one day when I have more free time I would like to find some information online and learn it from the beginning. I love knitting. My mother was like your mother and she also knitted a lot when I was a child. She made sweaters and many other things for us. When I started knitting my own things I could always ask my mother for advice because she had much more experience than I did. I don't have pictures of the things that I have knitted in the past and I gave most of them away as presents, but I am knitting a blanket at the moment. I would like to share a picture of it when I finish it (that is not going to happen in the near future )

It is great that you have been able to use the things that you have learned. You sound very active, and it sounds like you really benefitted from the things that you learned I would like to learn to sew clothes and other kinds of things. I love crafts and I have done many different kinds of crafts. The most useful thing that I learned in the art and crafts lessons was knitting. Since that time I have knitted many things and it is one of the things that I still use today.

I think that kind of personal gifts are great. I am happy when I receive that kind of gifts from my friends. I also like to draw, but at the moment I don't have much time to spend on those things. In the future I hope to draw again.

I found the photo, it looks really cool. It is great to receive a personal gift which is made especially for the person who receives the gift. I like to paint and draw and I sometimes make personal gifts for my friends as well.

It all started last year when I made a present for my best friend's birthday(see my photos). This year I made him something too. Now I am thinking of making something for a friend who is a vet and starting her own business.

I am not that good at figurative paintings. I enjoy experimenting with abstract paintings sometimes, but most of my paintings are mixed media (paint, paper and sometimes other materials) Like you I don't know much about oil paint. I have never used oil paint in my paintings, but I would like to learn more about oil paint, instead of using acrylics all the time like I do at the moment. Some years ago I used water colours, but since that time I haven't used them. It was a bit of a coincidence that I started painting. I reveived my first acrylics, brushes and canvasses as a present about 10 years ago. I discovered that I really enjoyed painting and I started buying my own materials

We share the same interests. I love to knit and I also love to paint. What kinds of paintings do you do? Figurative or abstract? Acrylics or oil paint? I have made some abstract paintings, but most of my paintings are a mix of paper (pictures from old magazines) and paint. So far I have only used acrylics, but I would like to experiment with oil paint in the future. In the past I also painted with water colours, but I haven't do that for a long time.

most of my paints is figurative, sometimes I paint abstract.. I dont have talents with abstract It takes a lot of time when im thinking how should I be able to do a goods abstract painting. for the oils I dont know how to paint from oils and dont know how to use it exactly.. for the water colors I do it only when im practicing painting. I want to learn much from the others..

Yes, you can learn how to crochet online via like you tube and if you are interested there are a ton of free sites online for knitting and crochet patterns as well. But being able to paint and having people interested in buying your stuff is good.

It is great that you sell the things that you make I sell my paitings and photomanuipulations, but it find it quite hard to sell those things online. It is easier to sell my art to people I meet in real life. I have never learned to crochet and it is one of things that we didn't learn at my school. We learned other things like sewing, knitting and cross stitching. I would like to learn to crochet, and I think that I can find instructions online and learn it on my own. I learned to knit in the lessons that we had and today (more than 20 years later) I still knit.

I taught myself to needlepoint from a magazine, then to cross stitch and now I bead. More than just threading beads on wire, I like to bead weave.

Bead weaving sounds interesting, I have never tried that. I would like to learn to cross stitch. I have learned it many years ago, but I don't remember how to do it.

We also made paper mache pinata I don't remember how to do it, but I am sure that it would be possible to find the intructions online. My mother kept the things that I had made in school and used them as decoration in our home, but we don't have them anymore. Which things do you do now? Today I use some of the things that I have learned at school like knitting, but I also like to experiment and create my own techniques. I am a self taught artist, and I like to teach myself other things. Today it is easy to find instructions online, but sometimes I prefer to experiment and develop my own techniques.

I am not good at sewing. I learned it at school, but that was many years ago, and today I don't remember most of things I learned at that time. I dream about designing and sewing my own clothes. I think that would be great, but I would have to start from the beginning because I haven't done it since elementary school and I don't remember much of the things that we learned at that time. Today we have the internet and we can find all sort of information and videos here. That makes it easier to learn things on our own. I plan on learning several crafts that way in the future. I knit a lot, but I have never learned to crochet, that is one of the things that I would like to learn.

In my class there was a girl who was like you. When the lessons started and we learned to knit small and easy things like butterflies she already made her own clothes. The lessons weren't much of a challenge for her and she was bored. Everyone had to do the same things in those lessons and it didn't really matter that she already knew how to do those things, she had to do the projects anyway. Already before the lessons she was better than the rest of us were when we finished the lessons I think it is great that you have taught yourself every crafts you have done. I am a self-taught artist and I love to learn new things and experiment on my own. In the future I want to teach myself to crochet. I have never tried that before.

That sounds like me. In the art and crafts lessons I learned how to sew, but I was never good at it. I don't remember which things we had to make. I think that one of them was a bag, but I am not sure. The things that I made weren't exactly pretty I remember that I found sewing difficult and I often had to ask the teacher for help. Today I don't sew. I have thought about learning it because I think that it would be nice to be able to make my own clothes. I know that I would have to start from the beginning again, because I don't remember the things that I learned in those lessons many years ago. I have never learned to crochet. We didn't do that in the art and crafts lessons. I am not sure why. We spent quite a lot of time on knitting. I found that difficult in the beginning, but today I love to knit and I have knitted many different things.

I also believe that we can learn those things if we are willing to invest time and energy in the project. There are many crafts that I haven't done for years, but I sometimes think about starting again. It is also interesting to experiment with things I have never tried before.

Do you do any crafts?

Like you I wish that I was good at sewing and I think that it could be great to be able to sew my own clothes or things for our home. One of my friends recently got new curtains and she made them herself. If I had to do the same thing I wouldn't know where to start or how to make the curtains I would like to learn to sew, but so far it is only an idea and I didn't make an effort to learn it yet. In the art and crafts lessons we also learned cross stitching, but I haven't used the things that I learned since I left the school, and unfortuantely I don't remember how to do it. It is one of my projects for the future

I looked up macaroni art when I had read your response and I found some pictures of portraits and other things. I have never tried that, we didn't do that at my school. I remember the sock puppets Some time ago my parents moved and I went through some old boxes. In one of those boxes I found a sock puppet that I made many years ago. We made many other things. Our teacher loved clay and we often had to make things out of clay for instance different kinds of sculptures. When I think about those lessons I usually think about all those clay things.

I think that is a great idea to sell your jewelry online. Good luck with that. Some time ago I was a member of a craft group and some of the other members also made jewelry. They made some beautiful things, but I have never really tried to make jewelry myself. Most of the time I knit, I learned that in elementary school and I today I still like to knit. In the past I learned to weave, but I not sure that I still remember how to do it. I like you I would like to learn how to quilt. I have seen some of the things that my friends from the craft group made, but I haven't learned how to do it. I have learned to sew many years ago, but I haven't used it since that time and I still consider myself a beginner.

At my school we had art and crafts lessons in the 4th grade. The only thing that I learned and still use today is knitting. I learned the basic things about knitting in those lessons and after that time I experimented on my own and learned how to make more complicated things. I have never learned to crochet, but I would like to learn that in the future. I think that I would be able to learn that on my own. There are books that I could use and today we are also to find all sort of information on the internet and that is a big help if we want to learn something on our own. Some of my friends use YouTube videos to learn new things, and I think that sounds like a good option.

When I was a student we had art and crafts lessons in the 4th grade and cooking lessons in the 6th grade. I wasn't especially good at the crafts we learned and I often needed assistance from the teacher in order to finish my projects. I never became good at sewing or cross stitching, but I liked knitting. Today I still like to knit and I use the things that I have learned in those lessons many years ago. It is great that you still like to do cross stitching today and make some pretty things. I learned cross stitching many years ago, but I don't remember how to do it. I would like to learn cross stitching again.

So did I. As far I remember I learned to sew the 4th grade and I learned to cook in the 6th grade. Today I am not good at sewing and I have forgotten most of the things that I learned at that time, but it could be interesting to learn it again. I would like to design and sew my own clothes.