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Craft badge - introduction

 I’ve been crafting for about 40 years - I enjoyed the craft sessions I did in primary school - like the glove puppet (that I still have), the weaving, the towelling beach bag (which I also still have). I started doing some patchwork at around the same time, with hexagons my mum had cut out. I didn’t know any different when I started, so I just started sewing them together in any old way - I didn’t know about putting papers behind them and tacking them…that came a little while later.

Anyway - when I saw the requirements for the Craft badge, I knew I wanted to do it, and would be able to do it fairly easily, especially as at some point I have tried at least 14 out of the 20 crafts listed. I really don’t think I need any more crafting supplies, so my idea is to pick some items from the list, and challenge myself with them. This means that I will be doing some crafts that I already do, but creating a new piece for the badge, or challenging myself to do an aspect of it that I find difficult / more challenging / don’t like.



The ideas I’ve some up with for this: weaving (did a weaving workshop 2 weeks ago, so will finish the piece ready to display), needle felting (making a robin from a kit I got for Christmas a few years ago), tatting (got a kit from my mother-in-law who had been given it by someone else), quilting (try some FMQ quilting designs that I find more tricky - e.g. feathers, paisley, maybe even try some ruler work), appliqué (postcard / fabric picture using a kit I got from a Craft4Crafters show a couple of years ago).

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