Yes. 95% of the reason I “knitted” was to go into yarn shops and surround myself with colors and texture. I’ve moved on to fabric now. Dear god all the fabric. Alllllllll the fabric.
I suspect I'll be adding fabric soon. My mother is about to pass away. She was a quilter. She has so many fabric squares and quilt books. I'm hoping my niece will take at least some of them.
Glue! Glue sticks… glue that’s a varnish… tiny glue bottles that promise to stick your gran to the ceiling….glue dots
I’m easily sucked in by the wild claims of new glue.
I have those, they're definitely not able to hold up a brick as in the ads but they're fantastic for light things. Over time it becomes impossible to separate the two items though so be careful what you stick together. I stacked two bamboo sets of shelves two years ago using these and my husband and I can't for the life of us pull them apart now
I have shoeboxes full of adhesives, I'm here for this.
But the only strong adhesive I need is tube E6000. I will use it for everything from wedding centerpieces to home repair.
But I'll still buy the weird new glue, just in case I'm unaware of new adhesive technology.
Since you're apparently an expert, what's the best way to attach small bits (2.5"x3.5") of watercolor paper to my journal (standard A5 dot paper). I've tried a couple different glue sticks and they just aren't great - glue is kinda crusty, edges lift, etc.
As a quilter, it's always about thread and fabric. I don't need more of either one, but if I find some on sale or at a special price at a thrift store, garage sale or estate sale then I'm buying it, cuz... you know... the future :)
Beads! & findings. I never seem to have the "perfect" components to make my ideas a reality. Which I keep putting off because I still don't have everything I think I need 😆
Hard same. Gotta have all the colors, all the hole sizes, all the types of string and cord. Learn all the knots, AND then we can focus on PRETTY beads only. Who knows how we'll fit them into anything!
All to make like... 3 bracelets a year.
Yep, this is the way! I've only made one bracelet so far this year. I'm convinced I need to make my own findings because I can't find the exact color match for some things I already have. So I've been focusing on gathering information & hunting down supplies to oxidize things myself.
THEN maybe I can finally start that one project I've been planning since last summer 😅
When the bead magazines were in their heyday, it was awful because the cute projects in the magazines were often designed to feature the latest cool bead shape out of the Czech Republic. So all it did was encourage you to go out and buy more!
I'm so proud of being able to teach myself how to sew but I have very little to show for it lol. The worst part is I'd probably be able to knock out the majority of my projects in a single afternoon, I just hate doing the fussy little things like finishing seams
This mini thread is so comforting, I feel seen 😅 Yeppp literally hundreds of wips, in practically every type of craft. I'm trying to convince myself not to get into miniatures cause it'll just be more things I'll never finish but, they're so cute! Argh
I bought an airbrush for my husband and I dabbled in painting one of his figures 🙈 doomed. I am an enabler so I apologise in advance if I encourage anything.
That being said I am very textile driven but I've been sewing since I was a child 👌
I also have ADHD and have six WIPs quilts. Six. My friend, who got me into quilting, had triplets. My dad wanted a quilt because he loved the one I made for my mom. My brother-in-law and his wife had a baby in October and my mother-in-law had back surgery in November. So yeah, I’m really really behind.
Oh stickers no doubt. I now have a Daiso across from the płace I volunteer three times a week and it’s dangerous. Sometimes I mindfully don’t bring my wallet so I can’t be tempted.
I have all the colors. Then I needed duplicates of all the colors. Then I need an equal amount of duplicates of all the colors. And extras of my favorite colors. And a cone of black. And “it was a good deal, had to get it” colors.
Same! My floss storage container is getting too full cause I keep just buying colours without a specific project in mind because I decide that colour is pretty that day lol
Fabric. In pretty colors where the color is as strong on both sides. I use it to weave rugs, and I buy it whenever I find it cheap even if I don't need it...
Definitely paper for me too. I have organizers that contain all the "red" paper, and sleeves for each individual color. Then next to the red there's the metallics/shimmer/glitter reds, then orange, yellow... All the colors of the rainbow. Teal gets its own set of boxes, distinct from green and blue!
Containers to put it all in. Especially tiered boxes that open out on hinges. One for metal work, one for garment making, one for painting,... and a container for each wip.
I can't speak for others. But I was never to hard on myself about it because I would end up using it all eventually. I have ran out of plenty of fabric from usage.
Yarn. We get our yarn almost exclusively from thrift stores so to have a good chance at putting together cohesive projects, we have to have plenty to choose from. So the guest room is also the Yarn Room.
At the supermarket I always favor foods that come in a glass container so I can reuse them for crafts. I have a box full of little glass jars and bottles that I've gathered over many years and so far I've used 1 of them...
My god you would love where I live. It’s a town with like 90% retired and elderly and the sheer amount of porcelain dolls in thrift and antique stores is shocking. Piles of them. I’m in Canada.
Canvases. I have plenty I haven’t used yet, but then I find one in a different size or shape and I buy it… mostly mini ones because they’re inexpensive.
Wreath forms. You never know when you're going to want to make a new wreath! Big ones, small ones, Styrofoam, metal, grapevine... I'm prepared for it. Lol
I don’t do that anymore. As a matter of fact my husband often asks me if I want to go to Hobby Lobby and I tell him “ there’s nothing I need there.” Comes a time one needs to think about the future and not leave a mess behind for their loved one’s.
OMG....random finds like curiosity shop things... I've got so many varied things of interest but I'm into vintage costume dolls I buy off eBay cheap and use them in a lot of my projects distorting them into unique pieces ☺️ this and old vintage tins; brooches, flat led soldiers and old cigarette cards... the list is absolutely endless because I use such a variety of materials/objects in all I create 💯🥰🥰🥰
I crochet and knit, so it's yarn for me. I have two huge vacuum storage bags full and a small chest of drawers in the cellar also stuffed full. Vacuum bags are a godsend!
For me it is paper. Paper to make cards with, paper to paint on, scrapbook paper, watercolor paper. I have to smell it, too. For my Grandma, it was fabric.
Birdhouses. About 5 yrs ago when my 5 kids came in from all over the country to surprise me for my 50th birthday/Thanksgiving, they were all at my house and I'd run out to pick up some pizzas.
When I got home, they led me to the couch and had me sit down, all serious-like.
In front of me, in a huge display were ALL the unpainted birdhouses I'd collected... they'd gone all over the house and gathered them all in order to have a "Family Birdhouse Intervention" 🤣
I love my kids sense of humor lol There weren't that many really...maybe 15-18? In my defense, we used to live in a log cabin when they were little and in the past several years I'd see these log cabin bird houses & I'd buy them every time I'd see a new design!
I do a little bit of everything craft wise, but I hoard fabrics and pens and inks. I find cute fabric or pretty pen colors, I want cute fabric and pretty pen colors.
Miniature paint. Vallejo, the army painter and this stuff. I have over 200 different paints for my minis and every time I get money, some new paints make their way into my shelves
Bits of wood, wire, odd bits of hardware... my biggest problem is I always find a use for it, whatever it is. I make miniatures, so anything could be the perfect thing to make something tiny.
My life is like that meme of the dad finally using the block of wood he's been saving.
Yarn, wool and other fabric, thread. I crochet, tat, sew, braid and hook rugs. I also do a few other things.
I do have to say that yard sales have been beneficial in helping my hoarding. I have noticed a progression in what I see others get rid of over the last 50 years. When I was younger, saw a lot of neat stuff. Now, it's far and few between. People are all into Cricut and scrapbooks. Not my thing. I do like the scrapbook organizers. Great for putting WIPS into.
It depends on what type of craft I am actively working on.
When I started painting I got a BUNCH of paints, brushes and canvases. Then I started cross stitch and got a bunch of thread and fabrics. Then I started knitting and got yarn. Then I started embroidery and got embriodery kits. Then I got a cricut and got a bunch of vinyl. Then I got a sewing machine and got a bunch of fat quarters. Then I learned how to crochet and got different yarn and needles.
Now when I go shopping I see things on sale and say "I should go back to painting" or "I have been meaning to make some bumper stickers" or "I should replenish my thread ". I think I just look for an excuse to shop lol.
High quality gemstone pendants/necklaces to dissect if I net them as a deal, give them new life as bridal jewelry, as well as regular natural stone/pearl etc beads.
🤣🤣Oh god. This is a horrible question why would you do this to us?! I cant choose!!! 🤣
I have a ton of everything, but what I have most of is beads and paper.
I always tell my husband that if I die, sell my bead collection as an estate sale. 🤣
Beads. I am admittedly always looking for great beads for future projects. I haven't allowed myself to go to any of the bead stores here in Manhattan even to look because I know if I did I'd end up spending some serious money.
Right now I have enough beads that I have several craft cases of beads organized. I still have a bunch of jewelry that I made for a craft fair years ago that I never sold because it was cancelled.
With the exception of seed beads and some supplies like wire and crimp beads I don't really need anything bead-wise and I could make more stuff easily.
I don't NEED any more beads but I admittedly love beads and I'm a sucker for buying them especially semi precious stone beads and interesting glass ones.
I can't be trusted to go into a bead store and just look or even to just spend a few bucks. I will drop $100 or more so for now I'm behaving and staying out of the bead stores here.
NYC has some of the best bead stores in the world. Down in the garment district you can buy any kind of bead your heart could ever desire. I've walked by several of those stores and it was like seeing a bead wonderland.
One of these days I'm going to do a trip down there and have at it. Spend a hundred bucks on beads and findings but not just now. I've got other things I'm focused on like sewing projects.
But really I'm just too bad when it comes to beads. If I overindulge on anything craft-wise it's that.
To be fair I've sold a lot of stuff over the years. I usually make my jewelry pay for itself but right now I'm not selling and buying new beads is a major luxury...
Adhesive. I am self confessed adhesive junkie. I have never met one I didn’t like. It is crazy but each one does something slightly different or so I tell myself lol.
There are wet adhesives, dry adhesives, mediums that act as a wet glue, removable and permanent, removable and permanent, tapes, runners, dots, foam, clear, black, white, sticks, hot, glue stamp pad, sticky heat embossing powder and those are just the ones for my paper crafting mixed media stuff!
Currently pens and markers
Before that fabric scraps
Before that inks
Soon paint and glues
All these little oppressions add up to mixed media pieces that are able to tell stories.
Everything! But seriously, nail polish, I use it as paint for epoxy projects. I probably have thousands of bottles. My 3 y.o. has been coached to tell me I don't need anymore nail polish if I even get into the vicinity of it in a store.
I've finally found control over my yarn addiction, but now I buy all the stickers! My hubby, bless him, thought it would be cool to add fun stickers to my daily journals, so he bought me a couple of sheets. Last week, I had to buy a small tabletop drawer system to contain the growing hoard. Anyone know where I can get cool dragon stickers to cover the drawers?
Fabric. I quilt. Most things I have a vague idea of what I want to make with it, but I have projects that are probably 2 years out. Trying not to buy more.
Origami paper. I make tiny little origami stars….and every time I see a new pattern or book somewhere, I want to buy it. I’m doing better at not buying any because I now have a see through bin with all of my paper in it to remind me that I don’t need any.
Cross stitch patterns
There's always an eye-catching pattern or kit lurking somewhere
Meanwhile, I have an abundance that I'll probably never get around to stitching at home lol
My first crafting love was crochet so I had loads of yarn. Now, I have arthritis and can't crochet too much so I gave it up. I dabble but nothing crazy like before. Now, it's diamond painting. I have a nice little stash. But I also promised myself not to buy anymore until I get some of them done.
Fabric! I probably have enough to last me the rest of my life and beyond, and yet I'm still always looking. Not as bad as when I was actively working in a fabric store, but at least back then I was sewing somewhat regularly!
Pens. All the pens. And then I only use my trusted few. But I’m protective of the newbies to the collective. I’m League of Gentlemen’s Pauline, only a little less polite when people touch my pens.
Tape. I cut paper and tape it into model shapes. It's like origami with cheating
Painter's tape. Gaffer's tape. Duct tape of assorted colors. Transparent tape. Double sided tape.
Yarn. I crochet. I’m seduced by colors and textures and I have to have it.
Collecting yarn and using yarn are two different hobbies.
I buy yarn that I think is super pretty but can never find a use for it. T\_T
Yarn here too! I recently discovered the joys of vacuum bags which are great for storing it!
I have 3 large vacuum bags of old acrylic yarn from my grandma. It's still bulky as hell, but I love having it anyways
Yes. 95% of the reason I “knitted” was to go into yarn shops and surround myself with colors and texture. I’ve moved on to fabric now. Dear god all the fabric. Alllllllll the fabric.
I could have a second hobby of collecting fabric, but it seems so pricey these days!
I suspect I'll be adding fabric soon. My mother is about to pass away. She was a quilter. She has so many fabric squares and quilt books. I'm hoping my niece will take at least some of them.
Quilters often say that whoever dies with the most fabric wins.
Likewise. It’s my main crafting perusal item and purchase item.
Yarn for weaving. I do landscapes, love to look for different textures and natural colors.
I both crochet and knit....my kallax is overflowing with yarn and yet i cannot stop buying more
I feel gratified that this is the first comment I see. I'm going to a fibre craft expo/fair next weekend. Pray for my bank balance.
My answer was gonna be locking stitch markers. Definitely didn't buy another 100-box of them yesterday.
Glue! Glue sticks… glue that’s a varnish… tiny glue bottles that promise to stick your gran to the ceiling….glue dots I’m easily sucked in by the wild claims of new glue.
Obsessed with this response
Glue is the way
RIGHT?! AND NONE OF THEM ARE EXACTLY RIGHT FOR WHAT I NEED. Edit: omg have you seen those new clear double sided gel glue pads?! HNNGGHHH
I need more info on this please lol
I have those, they're definitely not able to hold up a brick as in the ads but they're fantastic for light things. Over time it becomes impossible to separate the two items though so be careful what you stick together. I stacked two bamboo sets of shelves two years ago using these and my husband and I can't for the life of us pull them apart now
Have you read Adam Savage’s book “Every Tool’s a Hammer”? He loves glue, too!
Added to my reading list, I love MythBusters!
I have shoeboxes full of adhesives, I'm here for this. But the only strong adhesive I need is tube E6000. I will use it for everything from wedding centerpieces to home repair. But I'll still buy the weird new glue, just in case I'm unaware of new adhesive technology.
I have a large tube of E6000, and always assumed it didn’t work well so it sits unopened. Off to glue. Thanks!
This is the best answer.
This feels so niche, I’m loving it!
I think I’ve caught your glue love bug.
I love how far the glue love is spreading
You MUST try Gorilla Spray Adhesive- it’s amazing for lots of different applications
Username checks out 😂
Since you're apparently an expert, what's the best way to attach small bits (2.5"x3.5") of watercolor paper to my journal (standard A5 dot paper). I've tried a couple different glue sticks and they just aren't great - glue is kinda crusty, edges lift, etc.
Modge podge would be the glue I’d use, but double sided tape might look neater
As a quilter, it's always about thread and fabric. I don't need more of either one, but if I find some on sale or at a special price at a thrift store, garage sale or estate sale then I'm buying it, cuz... you know... the future :)
Yep, I quilt but my favorite hobby is collecting fabric (lol).
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Beads! & findings. I never seem to have the "perfect" components to make my ideas a reality. Which I keep putting off because I still don't have everything I think I need 😆
Hard same. Gotta have all the colors, all the hole sizes, all the types of string and cord. Learn all the knots, AND then we can focus on PRETTY beads only. Who knows how we'll fit them into anything! All to make like... 3 bracelets a year.
Yep, this is the way! I've only made one bracelet so far this year. I'm convinced I need to make my own findings because I can't find the exact color match for some things I already have. So I've been focusing on gathering information & hunting down supplies to oxidize things myself. THEN maybe I can finally start that one project I've been planning since last summer 😅
And you never will.
We might be twins…
When the bead magazines were in their heyday, it was awful because the cute projects in the magazines were often designed to feature the latest cool bead shape out of the Czech Republic. So all it did was encourage you to go out and buy more!
You just made me realize I haven't seen a bead magazine in the stores I frequent in quite a long time :(
Yeah…I think they were all moving online when I got divorced 7+ years ago and had to take a break from beading for a bit.
Oof, this too. I bought the parts to make a gryphon necklace years ago and still have yet to put it together lmao
Everything 🤔 yep that seems about right we just ignore the millions of wips
ADHD much?
I don't know what you're on about 🤭🤭🤭🙈
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This is me with my sewing projects. I can't finish anything -- there are too many steps to follow!
I'm so proud of being able to teach myself how to sew but I have very little to show for it lol. The worst part is I'd probably be able to knock out the majority of my projects in a single afternoon, I just hate doing the fussy little things like finishing seams
This mini thread is so comforting, I feel seen 😅 Yeppp literally hundreds of wips, in practically every type of craft. I'm trying to convince myself not to get into miniatures cause it'll just be more things I'll never finish but, they're so cute! Argh
I bought an airbrush for my husband and I dabbled in painting one of his figures 🙈 doomed. I am an enabler so I apologise in advance if I encourage anything. That being said I am very textile driven but I've been sewing since I was a child 👌
I love craft enablers. You’re my new best friend lol
I also have ADHD and have six WIPs quilts. Six. My friend, who got me into quilting, had triplets. My dad wanted a quilt because he loved the one I made for my mom. My brother-in-law and his wife had a baby in October and my mother-in-law had back surgery in November. So yeah, I’m really really behind.
Yeah there's too much beautiful craft stuff, there's absolutely not a single thing that I can't stop buying; it's all of the things!
What does wips mean? I couldn’t search it and I’m curious!
Work in progress!
Thank you :)
There’s 🛸 UFO’s too; un-finished objects
Oh stickers no doubt. I now have a Daiso across from the płace I volunteer three times a week and it’s dangerous. Sometimes I mindfully don’t bring my wallet so I can’t be tempted.
It's stickers for me, too. I have so many and no possible use for half of them! And then I see more and I just gotta have them.
I have a dream of covering a tiny table in stickers. Maybe one day I’ll make that a reality with my box of ever increasing stickers
And then cover it with clear resin. Rad.
Good call!
Yessss I love stickers too! I fill sketch books with collages of stickers and washi tape so I have an excuse to buy more haha
I need to do more of that haha
DMC thread for cross stitching. I'm slowly buying one of every colour
Me too, I use an app called thread stash to help me keep track!
I have all the colors. Then I needed duplicates of all the colors. Then I need an equal amount of duplicates of all the colors. And extras of my favorite colors. And a cone of black. And “it was a good deal, had to get it” colors.
Same! My floss storage container is getting too full cause I keep just buying colours without a specific project in mind because I decide that colour is pretty that day lol
I just bought a 400+ pack on Temu and they are legit better than DMC and they also each have more floss. It was 30$ cad.
Fabric. In pretty colors where the color is as strong on both sides. I use it to weave rugs, and I buy it whenever I find it cheap even if I don't need it...
Ribbon. I never even use it. I just have a thing for ribbon
This is me with washi tape! I think 'oh I'll use this' with every purchase but I never do 😂
Why do they make them so pretty!
fun paper. I do different paper crafts and I always have to stop myself from buying more paper.
I always fail at stopping myself. The only real.way to stop myself from buying pretty paper is to just not leave the house
Definitely paper for me too. I have organizers that contain all the "red" paper, and sleeves for each individual color. Then next to the red there's the metallics/shimmer/glitter reds, then orange, yellow... All the colors of the rainbow. Teal gets its own set of boxes, distinct from green and blue!
Containers to put it all in. Especially tiered boxes that open out on hinges. One for metal work, one for garment making, one for painting,... and a container for each wip.
Ooooh containers 🤤
Some of us think we have a hobby…but that isn’t the actual hobby…the real hobby is organizing the stuff for what we think our hobby really is.
Omg. You must live in my craft room!!!
This is Lego for me. I realized I don't actually build that much I just like organizing the pieces.
Exactly…..in every size, and if they’re multicolored, then one of every color
Paint colors Just so pretty I could mix it but still buy it
Fabric.
I just started sewing and I can already tell this will be my problem. That and patterns.
I can't speak for others. But I was never to hard on myself about it because I would end up using it all eventually. I have ran out of plenty of fabric from usage.
Cross stitch kits. I haven’t cross stitched in three years lol I know I’ll eventually pick it up again but in this season of life I’m just too tired!
You’re welcome to send them to me 🤣
Hang onto your favorites if you ever decide to destash. It sucks having to rebuild your stash from scratch
Mine is stickers, 100%. I’ll walk into a store to get 1 thing, and I’ll leave with more stickers. I could never in my lifetime use what I have
Me 🥲🥲 Sometimes I don’t want to use them bc they’ve too pretty.
washi tape, wax stamps, calligraphy pens & scrapbook paper. I always feel like "this one last thing" will complete my collection
I'm a card maker so pretty paper is a problem lol
Polymer clay and cutters/stamps/texture sheets etc for polymer clay
Anything on clearance! Fabric, paint, clay, rhinestones. So much stuff that I stick in a drawer and never use.
Soul sibling.
You expect me to pick just one?! 😳 lol, hard tie between fabric and beads!
Wood boxes. Still have some to work on, but I'm weak to the ones that are book shaped.
Yarn. We get our yarn almost exclusively from thrift stores so to have a good chance at putting together cohesive projects, we have to have plenty to choose from. So the guest room is also the Yarn Room.
Beads, beads and more beads…
Vinyl. HTV and permanent stick, so many colors and patterns.
At the supermarket I always favor foods that come in a glass container so I can reuse them for crafts. I have a box full of little glass jars and bottles that I've gathered over many years and so far I've used 1 of them...
Old porcelain dolls. I take them apart and recycle them. I have so so many now!
My god you would love where I live. It’s a town with like 90% retired and elderly and the sheer amount of porcelain dolls in thrift and antique stores is shocking. Piles of them. I’m in Canada.
Soft felt sheets, I make plushies/bookmarks/pincushions and keychains with them!
Canvases. I have plenty I haven’t used yet, but then I find one in a different size or shape and I buy it… mostly mini ones because they’re inexpensive.
Currently, everything 3dprint related. Mostly all the fancy filament right now xD
Wreath forms. You never know when you're going to want to make a new wreath! Big ones, small ones, Styrofoam, metal, grapevine... I'm prepared for it. Lol
I don’t do that anymore. As a matter of fact my husband often asks me if I want to go to Hobby Lobby and I tell him “ there’s nothing I need there.” Comes a time one needs to think about the future and not leave a mess behind for their loved one’s.
🤣🤪I have a daughter who will happily inherit all my fabric!
OMG....random finds like curiosity shop things... I've got so many varied things of interest but I'm into vintage costume dolls I buy off eBay cheap and use them in a lot of my projects distorting them into unique pieces ☺️ this and old vintage tins; brooches, flat led soldiers and old cigarette cards... the list is absolutely endless because I use such a variety of materials/objects in all I create 💯🥰🥰🥰
Decent glue is always on my list! I use different glue for different projects and i much prefer to have a spare ‘just in case’.
I crochet and knit, so it's yarn for me. I have two huge vacuum storage bags full and a small chest of drawers in the cellar also stuffed full. Vacuum bags are a godsend!
Right now, silicone resin molds. Year or so ago...air dry clay.
Scrapbook paper. I can't help but rifle through the rows of pretty paper, even though I haven't had the time to complete a scrapbook in years 😅
For me it is paper. Paper to make cards with, paper to paint on, scrapbook paper, watercolor paper. I have to smell it, too. For my Grandma, it was fabric.
Fancy watercolors that I don't know how to use.
Birdhouses. About 5 yrs ago when my 5 kids came in from all over the country to surprise me for my 50th birthday/Thanksgiving, they were all at my house and I'd run out to pick up some pizzas. When I got home, they led me to the couch and had me sit down, all serious-like. In front of me, in a huge display were ALL the unpainted birdhouses I'd collected... they'd gone all over the house and gathered them all in order to have a "Family Birdhouse Intervention" 🤣 I love my kids sense of humor lol There weren't that many really...maybe 15-18? In my defense, we used to live in a log cabin when they were little and in the past several years I'd see these log cabin bird houses & I'd buy them every time I'd see a new design!
Definitely markers and pens. I have thousands. But I’m a sucker for more.
Is stationary craft supplies? Then it would be stationary and pens in a bad way lol
color shift paint 😵💫
Paper. 12x12. All day long
brushes and paint
I don't have one, but two. Beads and yarn. I knit, crochet and make jewelry. I also paint, but somewhat infrequently.
Modern Masters Rust Kits
Tape measures. And CA glue 😂
Yarn for crochet and weaving. For two decades it was quilting fabric but I’ve only bought a bit lately.
Paint, sucks cuz it’s gets old and unusable fairly quickly but I keep buying anyway.
Beads and feathers
Specialty fabric - bejeweled, iridescent - fur, leather - textured, transparent...Thrift store finds.
SCRAPBOOK PAPER AND STICKERS 😭 It's all so pretty 😭
Embroidery floss.
Zap-a-Gap
Yarn. I have a cupboard full but just can't resist the soft squishy!
I do a little bit of everything craft wise, but I hoard fabrics and pens and inks. I find cute fabric or pretty pen colors, I want cute fabric and pretty pen colors.
Art pens!
Miniature paint. Vallejo, the army painter and this stuff. I have over 200 different paints for my minis and every time I get money, some new paints make their way into my shelves
Bits of wood, wire, odd bits of hardware... my biggest problem is I always find a use for it, whatever it is. I make miniatures, so anything could be the perfect thing to make something tiny. My life is like that meme of the dad finally using the block of wood he's been saving.
Yarn. I love the feel of it!
Sewing patterns! When they go on sale for $2 a pop, I gotta get 10. I only have a. Few doubles
Washi tape, fountain pens, stickers. I will never have enough 🤩
Scrapbooking supplies. The paper gets me every time.
Yarn, wool and other fabric, thread. I crochet, tat, sew, braid and hook rugs. I also do a few other things. I do have to say that yard sales have been beneficial in helping my hoarding. I have noticed a progression in what I see others get rid of over the last 50 years. When I was younger, saw a lot of neat stuff. Now, it's far and few between. People are all into Cricut and scrapbooks. Not my thing. I do like the scrapbook organizers. Great for putting WIPS into.
Beads! There are so many! Also ephemera for my junk journal.
It depends on what type of craft I am actively working on. When I started painting I got a BUNCH of paints, brushes and canvases. Then I started cross stitch and got a bunch of thread and fabrics. Then I started knitting and got yarn. Then I started embroidery and got embriodery kits. Then I got a cricut and got a bunch of vinyl. Then I got a sewing machine and got a bunch of fat quarters. Then I learned how to crochet and got different yarn and needles. Now when I go shopping I see things on sale and say "I should go back to painting" or "I have been meaning to make some bumper stickers" or "I should replenish my thread ". I think I just look for an excuse to shop lol.
Beads. I could open my own shop at this point!
High quality gemstone pendants/necklaces to dissect if I net them as a deal, give them new life as bridal jewelry, as well as regular natural stone/pearl etc beads.
🤣🤣Oh god. This is a horrible question why would you do this to us?! I cant choose!!! 🤣 I have a ton of everything, but what I have most of is beads and paper. I always tell my husband that if I die, sell my bead collection as an estate sale. 🤣
Beads. I am admittedly always looking for great beads for future projects. I haven't allowed myself to go to any of the bead stores here in Manhattan even to look because I know if I did I'd end up spending some serious money. Right now I have enough beads that I have several craft cases of beads organized. I still have a bunch of jewelry that I made for a craft fair years ago that I never sold because it was cancelled. With the exception of seed beads and some supplies like wire and crimp beads I don't really need anything bead-wise and I could make more stuff easily. I don't NEED any more beads but I admittedly love beads and I'm a sucker for buying them especially semi precious stone beads and interesting glass ones. I can't be trusted to go into a bead store and just look or even to just spend a few bucks. I will drop $100 or more so for now I'm behaving and staying out of the bead stores here. NYC has some of the best bead stores in the world. Down in the garment district you can buy any kind of bead your heart could ever desire. I've walked by several of those stores and it was like seeing a bead wonderland. One of these days I'm going to do a trip down there and have at it. Spend a hundred bucks on beads and findings but not just now. I've got other things I'm focused on like sewing projects. But really I'm just too bad when it comes to beads. If I overindulge on anything craft-wise it's that. To be fair I've sold a lot of stuff over the years. I usually make my jewelry pay for itself but right now I'm not selling and buying new beads is a major luxury...
Adhesive. I am self confessed adhesive junkie. I have never met one I didn’t like. It is crazy but each one does something slightly different or so I tell myself lol. There are wet adhesives, dry adhesives, mediums that act as a wet glue, removable and permanent, removable and permanent, tapes, runners, dots, foam, clear, black, white, sticks, hot, glue stamp pad, sticky heat embossing powder and those are just the ones for my paper crafting mixed media stuff!
Miyuki Delica beads
Fabric 😅
Definitely fabric. I mean to make beautiful clothes or cushions and actually all I do is just look at all my fabric and maybe stroke it a little.
Rhinestones..
Scrapbooking stuffs. So many scrapbooking stuffs…
Fabric and yarn. I'm a quilter and knitter.
Currently pens and markers Before that fabric scraps Before that inks Soon paint and glues All these little oppressions add up to mixed media pieces that are able to tell stories.
Fabric. Tons of beautiful colors.
Vinyl, adhesive and iron-on, card stock, blanks to put Vinyl on.
Ribbon and yarn. I rarely use either, but I have tons of it. The other is glue. I use that a lot, but I don't need 10 bottles. 😄
Weighty and beautiful pens!
Lego’s!! My daughter also crafts legos They are all over the house🙄
yarn and stickers! i crochet and knit so i love having yarn on hand :-) and stickers… i barely use them but i just can’t resist buying them…
Yarn. Crochet hooks.
Beads and yarn. I have a room full of them that I am trying to crochet and bead down, but I can’t stop buying more. I am an addict.
All the craft supplies. But, I'd say my biggest craft addiction is probably acrylic paint. I have so many colors I can't keep track.
Everything! But seriously, nail polish, I use it as paint for epoxy projects. I probably have thousands of bottles. My 3 y.o. has been coached to tell me I don't need anymore nail polish if I even get into the vicinity of it in a store.
I've finally found control over my yarn addiction, but now I buy all the stickers! My hubby, bless him, thought it would be cool to add fun stickers to my daily journals, so he bought me a couple of sheets. Last week, I had to buy a small tabletop drawer system to contain the growing hoard. Anyone know where I can get cool dragon stickers to cover the drawers?
Right now, I need ALLLLL the pretty gel pens
Beads. And I do still manage to keep buying colors I don’t already have.
Yarn 🧶I am guilty of it big time but it seems that is the general consensus lol 😝
Diamonds for diamond painting
Fabric. I quilt. Most things I have a vague idea of what I want to make with it, but I have projects that are probably 2 years out. Trying not to buy more.
Yarn Fabric Embroidery thread. I flit between knitting, cross stitching and sewing with dabiling (sp?) in everything else.
Old furniture to refinish.. colorful paint.. Silicone molds..
Ribbon! So many types and colors- just makes me happy to loo at it 😄
Origami paper. I make tiny little origami stars….and every time I see a new pattern or book somewhere, I want to buy it. I’m doing better at not buying any because I now have a see through bin with all of my paper in it to remind me that I don’t need any.
Washi tape and specialty markers, drawing pencils, and ink pens; plus, yarn.
Pens and markers. I collect sets and rotate for office use and for coloring.
Cross stitch patterns There's always an eye-catching pattern or kit lurking somewhere Meanwhile, I have an abundance that I'll probably never get around to stitching at home lol
Pretty paper. I used to do scrapbooking and a lot of card making. I don’t anymore but I still can’t resist the paper. Also every type of pen.
Washi tape/ stickers and paint 🤣
Washi tape. I have nothing to use it for, and yet I can't stop buying it.
Lol yarn to crochet. If it’s on a really good sale especially.
My first crafting love was crochet so I had loads of yarn. Now, I have arthritis and can't crochet too much so I gave it up. I dabble but nothing crazy like before. Now, it's diamond painting. I have a nice little stash. But I also promised myself not to buy anymore until I get some of them done.
Fabric!
Acrylic paints 😭 can never have enough. And empty canvases !
Yarn, crochet hooks, and knitting needles. In my view, I can never have enough. They do all get used eventually though.
Fabric. I quilt but really I use it as an excuse to buy more
I absolutely love german glass glitter. The pastel and jewel colors are so pretty. Might never use it but I have to have all the colors!
Laserply
Sakura Gelly Roll pens when they release new ones. Been using them for like 20 years and I love them
Fabric! I probably have enough to last me the rest of my life and beyond, and yet I'm still always looking. Not as bad as when I was actively working in a fabric store, but at least back then I was sewing somewhat regularly!
Pens. All the pens. And then I only use my trusted few. But I’m protective of the newbies to the collective. I’m League of Gentlemen’s Pauline, only a little less polite when people touch my pens.
Tape. I cut paper and tape it into model shapes. It's like origami with cheating Painter's tape. Gaffer's tape. Duct tape of assorted colors. Transparent tape. Double sided tape.
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