Random stuff you have taught yourself to do.

[MakeYourOwnFuckingTea]

I'm currently "teaching" myself to play the tin whistle using Pinterest and YouTube. It's really tough and I'm crap. I just think I'm unteachable. I tried learning knitting and can cast on and do a normal row but can't figure how to purl. Have any of you lot successfully taught yourself something really fun or crafty? I'm looking for inspiration. I lose interest quickly if I don't grasp it.

I've forgotten more things I've taught myself than most people have learned. How's that for a sentence? I love learning new skills but I learn best by myself.

I did actually teach myself the penny whistle, but I already played flute, so I don't think that counts.

I taught myself how to crochet, and make cheese, jam, and mead. Also taught myself the correct use of the Oxford comma.

I taught myself the alphabet in sign language from my parents' illustrated dictionary when I was a kid.

Later I taught myself to type using all 10 fingers from a penguin book (and an actual typewriter ). I was just killing time but it was v sensible.

To like red wine

@Beefarseer i think you're on Twitter, aren't you ☺

I taught myself to play the flute, I'm good but I'm giving it up to now teach myself the guitar. I've also taught myself to teach and now work from home teaching

Crochet (very much a work in progress!)
Sign language

Making glass art using a kiln - this is becoming a paid hobby

Sewing. Knitting. Hanging doors. Preserving (jams and chutney, also pickling and drying fruit.) Tiling. Wallpapering. Basic electrical wiring, including how to install an electric cooker. How to change a bike tyre. Plumbing in washing / dishwashing machines. Decorating in general. Basic upholstery. Laying laminate or vinyl flooring and carpets. Stripping and refinishing wood. Grouting and pointing. Installing concrete fence posts. Putting up curtain rails / rods / blinds. Building and fitting a kitchen. Foraging - what is and isn't safe to eat in the wild (not mushrooms....not brave enough to risk it.) How to build a shed. Laying concrete. Baking and cooking (was never shown.) Making yoghurt. Putting up shelves. Building flatpacks. Gardening. Sharpening tools / knives.

Next up - how to kill and clean rabbits and poultry. If I get an allotment (crosses fingers and hopes.)

Various programming skills. Started off with html and took off from there.

How to read hallmarks on precious metals.

How to make friendship bracelets when they were all the rage!

Tinofbeans I taught myself how to raise each eyebrow independently of the other as a child. So I can do this face but can raise either eyebrow at will. Took ages but I clearly felt it was a skill I would need in later life and I've had plenty of opportunities to practice.

I was also an extremely fussy eater as a child and have gradually taught myself to enjoy vegetables.

I can say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and can sing all 66 books of the Bible in a jaunty little song but I suppose that last one was taught to me in Sunday school (those mornings really flew by). People are either impressed or break out in involuntary face.

Cailleach you should make a how to book.

I wanted to learn the elements song. But it just wouldn't stick.

Taught myself how to play the saxophone, admittedly badly. About to start on the keyboard...

MakeYourOwnFuckingTea oh I know that! There’s two of them now. The original I learned at school. The latest (with up to date elements discovered since the 50s) is called “The New Petiodic Table Song” and is on YouTube. I found it easier to learn.

Periodic Table obviously

How to hand rear baby field mice.

How to fold towels into elephants, dogs, sharks, swans and manta rays.

If ever the balloon goes up, they're bound to keep me around, I'll be soooo useful...

Gale Boetticher sings it on Better Call Saul. Because of course he does.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_(song)

Taught myself to sew, knit, cook,do house maintenance, usual kind of stuff.

Fold a fitted sheet correctly in my early 30s, after years of half arsed folding and then shoving in bedding box. Game changer

Can anyone recommend any sites for learning how to sew?

Cook, play electric guitar, learned French and currently learning Spanish and trying but failing to learn how to do magic.

Latch hook rugging and cross stitch.

After my bat shit mother went off on a manic buying phase of buying craft kits, I learned to do what she had opened as we couldn't get refunds on the stuff she had tampered with managed to tie into Gordian knots

Should have stated its for clothes alterations such as taking trousers up as I am a shorty 🤣

To play the recorder and read music, touch type, cook, bake, bookkeeping (which is now my profession), knitting and crochet

How to make intricate loom band bracelets years ago.
I was ace at guitar hero
Drilling
Sanding, undercoating and glossing an old dressing table and stool.

Pitch perfect Cups routine here too. For no reason other than because I wanted to. I have never performed in front of anyone, I would be too embarrassed to admit I could do it