What are your hobbies that you do at home?

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Looking for inspiration for hobbies that I can do at home apart from baking and reading as I do those already. I like crafty things BUT I am rubbish at them and can't think of them from my own head, I do sometimes recreate very basic things from a video. Can you tell me your hobbies that you do at home?

I crochet, do puzzles and cryptic crosswords, play games on the Switch and read/listen to audiobooks.

Make jewellery, mainly from my lampwork beads (which I also make), sew, paint watercolours (not brilliantly, but hobbies are about wellbeing), collect vintage sewing / craft books and patterns and have my dolls houses (buy, make, furnish, decorate).

writing and poetry
Watercolour painting
making small felt soft toys

I do loads of things, too many really. At the minute I am weaving. It is quite theraputic, grows quickly and there are a lot of things you can learn to do. I am currently working my way through a tutorial to re-learn how to weave all of these effects as I haven't used it much for a few years so am trying to remember how to do it all.

I like to crochet. Throws and shawls mainly, made all in one piece as I can’t bear joining sections together.

I also knit a bit - socks made in one piece as a tube are my favourite as very little joining.

I used to do a lot of cross-stitch but once I started needing reading glasses found it too infuriating to get the light / specs combo just right.

I sometimes do free courses on Future Learn.

I do my bullet journal - not religiously though and use it probably more like a scrap book.
I have a lovely shoe box full of washi tape, stickers, embellishments and every few days I'll use it to plan trips, write about big events.
I have pages for films I've watched, books I've read, things I've done with friends/kids/boyfriend.

I used to use it like a diary but am too busy to fill it in regularly so enjoy just popping in and out of it in front of the tv.

Have a look at printed cross stitch kits. These have the design printed directly onto the canvas, you stitch over the top like paint by numbers. Once the stitching is finished you wash the canvas and the ink comes out. They are perfect for doing in front of the telly.

Jealous of people who make their own clothes. I would love this but I completely lack the patience and precision and follow through. Also I would love to knit my own cardigans, but see above.

Pole dancing and weight training, although I do go to a class once or twice a week. I’m supposed to be having a forced day off today as I’ve danced for the last 6 days in a row and I over did it yesterday but I already have the itch 😂.

Gardening, building/DIY, woodworking, crochet, knitting are the ones I do at home.

If you don't have a garden, look into bonsai. Very rewarding apparently, ds is getting into it.

Oh, also drawing/sketching.

Masses of knitting, for a charity where the items are badly needed.
Playing the piano very badly!

If you get decent at it, you can start to develop your own patterns, or work out how to reproduce something from a picture. Same with knitting - I made a jumper last year and tweaked the neck to make it a closer fit so it would be warmer. I also tweaked the pattern for mini-jumpers to get a shape I preferred - they make cute Christmas tree decorations.

If you haven't got a garden, you can grow herbs on a windowsill, or sprouts of various kinds in a propagator. Carnivorous plants also seem to be quite addictive - a friend has a huge one in her bathroom.

I used to do a lot of family history, including stuff abroad (some countries have on-line newspaper archives, for example).

Traditional photography, have a now quite comprehensive darkroom in the basement, spend the summer shooting a good few rolls of film and developing those, then while away grey days printing up the pictures down in the basement, revisiting days of summer!

I love this idea!! How did you get started? Can you easily buy cameras that take film and buy film these days? Is it expensive? I know I could google but would value your input 🙂

Sewing, knitting, reading and Pilates

Sewing & embroidery
Furniture upcycling
Growing my own fruits, vegs & cooking herbs
DIY
Making my own beauty & cleaning products.

I started all the above because I was so broke when I bought my house last year that I needed to decorate it on a budget and cut down on my shopping bill...

I knit, pretty much always following a pattern, I can also crochet but not well and I generally just 'doodle' making granny squares that I can sew together to make quilts or cushion covers.

I also love sewing and tend to be more able to just wing it with that so I'll decide what I want to make and find a way to do it, often with a seam ripper in hand to re-do bits when it hasn't gone quite right.

Trying out new recipes, painting, learning Tarot cards and gardening

My arthritis limits me these days but in the past.

Knitting.
Crochet.
Embroidery / cross stich / tapestry.
Drawing.
Cooking / making pickles and chutneys. One year I made a complete hamper for someone, I mean the contents not the actual wickerwork.
I have some lace making equipment, if you have ever don macramé it is basically the same stitches.

Things I do at home

Play instrument
Duolingo
Jigsaws
Lego
Try out new recipes

I taught myself an instrument, listen to audiobooks and podcasts, do daily Duolingo, play puzzgrid (like the connecting wall in Only Connect), do Logic Problems, and jigsaws. I also do courses in Future Learn, and sign up to online festivals (history, science, etc) and join lectures and presentations from the National Archives, National Gallery, etc.

I do leatherwork, it's very satisfying.

I foster kittens until they are old enough to get new homes. Makes me feel like I’m making a difference.

Darkroom equipment is very cheap these days, people often give it away, you need a room that can be made light tight, an enlarger, three developing trays, a developing tank for film, a red safelight and the chemicals.

The equipment can be big professional kit like I now use, having got the space, or small portable stuff you pack away.

Old film SLR cameras can be had cheaply too, there are lots of videos, websites and books that describe the process, its easy once you get the hang of it.