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i have just started a craft group and am wanting to know if any one has any ideas there are only four at the moment. what i would like to know is the only hand crafts can think of are card making, sewing etc. looking for ideas for the group to go forward. low budget so any thing cheap and cheerful would help hope some one can help

Hi Linda - back in Scotland I was a member of a couple of crafts groups , its a great way of pooling resources, will mail you

Hi Linda Someone I used to know did handpainted flower pots, they were quite nice. Dee xx

What about scrapbooking as everyone has lots of photos to preserve. You can club together for cheap packs of papers and bits and bobs to add to the pages. QVC has lots of packs to start you off. Once started it is addictive and you can combine it with your card making. Jill xx:)

Table centres and suchlike for Christmas: Logs with holly, cones etc. The only expense would be a couple of candles perhaps. Quilling - paper straws are cheap and you can use them in the same way as corn for corn dolly type things. (note the technical terms lol) Collage - paper or fabric. Framed can look very special. Dough craft Making fridge magnets Magsxx

Fimo (like a clay that you bake.) You can make jewellery and other things then perhaps sell them. Glass painting. Decopauge (spl?)Where you stick little pictures on things such as trays boxes etc. A good one would be a fire screen. Covering things with small shells (my uncle used to collect shells when walking the dog on the beach and cover lamps etc with them they looked really nice. You can buy bags of shells. Making anything in miniature 12th scale for dolls houses. Bedspreads cushions etc or use the fimo and make trinkets etc. You can use beads etc. and make fancy perfume jars.(Sell them on ebayl ol). Germaine x

Hi Lynda, my son works as a transmission controller for a shopping channel called Ideal World (he does this job alongside his work for Endemol!). He told me that Ideal World - I think its channel 21? on freeview or around that area, have a craft channel which is the most popular program on the shopping networks. I have seen a bit of it once - but they do seem to have an awful lot of ideas on there.

knitting, crochet, macrame

Linda I have done Macrame which uses string - you can get a book from the library and as long as you can tie a knot you are on your way. Also have and still do Decoupage that again is easy just need wood, pictures and glue, and what about Patchwork. Hope this helps. Liz

Have you got a hobbycraft shop near you. If you can visit one of their stores you will find loads of ideas. My daughter has made window lights - you buy the blanks (for hanging in windows to catch the light) and decorate them with glass paints. Jewellry making from beads. You can but all the makings in craft shops. The is another type of decoupage from the firescreen/covered box type. It is probably known as 3D pictures now. You can get books in the library on it. Ann glos

Origami You can get books about it from the library - in fact the library will probably provide books with heaps of craft ideas. nell

thanks to everyone who took the time to both read and reply to my plight. will take on board everything you suggested and try my hand at them. thanks again

Do let us know how you get on. Ann Glos