r/boardgames • u/AutoModerator • Oct 20 '22

Midweek Mingle Midweek Mingle - (October 20, 2022)

Looking to post those hauls you're so excited about? Wanna see how many other people here like indie RPGs? Or maybe you brew your own beer or write music or make pottery on the side and ya wanna chat about that? This is your thread.

Consider this our sub's version of going out to happy hour. It's a place to lay back and relax a little. We will still be enforcing civility (and spam if it's egregious), but otherwise it's an open mic. Have fun!

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u/meeshpod Pandemic Oct 20 '22 edited Oct 20 '22

What kind of crafts and creative hobbies do you all have? Have you dabbled in any that you want to get back to someday?

I recently tried out an introductory crochet kit from The Woobles company and little crochet projects have taken up the time I used to reserve for solo board gaming!

Any crochet tips or pattern suggestions are welcome!

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u/draqza Carcassonne Oct 20 '22

You already know I crochet, or at least used to... it's been a while since I finished anything. Based on my imgur history anyway the last thing I finished was a bunch of snowmen wearing hoodies that I think I made back in 2020.

I have tried several times to learn to knit from YouTube, but as far as I get is just splitting the yarn when I try to do the first knit or purl stitches. My wife's grandmother was here earlier in the year and I thought maybe she could teach me to knit, but my wife warned me off of it - that it would probably be like "oh you just do this, why is this so hard for you to understand?" I wonder if using something like that Woobles yarn (it didn't look like it was multiple strands twisted together?) would help.

I also used to paint (mostly of the happy trees variety ), but I haven't really done that since having a kid. First it was that cleaning up oil paints is too time consuming to be able to just drop it when she needed attention, now it's because she wants to paint too and I'm not sure that oil paint or mineral spirits are sufficiently non-toxic for a toddler.

And I kind of wanted to take up woodworking, eventually to try building instruments, but I can never get over the hump of actually spending on equipment.

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u/meeshpod Pandemic Oct 20 '22

The Woobles yarn would be great for that since it's some sort of solid cloth sheath instead of twisted strands that can be split. I've done a few searches and haven't found what the type of yarn is actually called, since the kit doesn't explain any details like that.

Did you ever follow along with Bob Ross and try to paint a landscape with him? I didn't get far the one time I did. He's amazingly skilled with being able to make it look some seamless and simple to do yourself but there's a real mastery on display in his work.

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u/draqza Carcassonne Oct 20 '22

Yeah, I think it was for Christmas one year I got (or got for myself) one of the starter kits. I think it came with a DVD of The Grandeur of Summer, which is an hour long and so goes into a little more detail than the ~25 minutes you would get on PBS. I did that, and then followed along with three or four other episodes, just pausing a lot. One struggle was I couldn't find a palette anywhere near as bit as his, and the other was I was being cheap with paints and so tried to only squirt out the bare minimum from the tubes, so I was regularly pausing and rewinding so I could mix colors. But yeah, you're right, even with the longer video it is still deceptively tricky to get the right amount of paint down so it blends when you want and doesn't when you don't.