Do you refer to your quilting as a "hobby"?
10-19-2011, 10:12 AM
#111
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I call all of my crafts hobbies as well as art Wheb I spend big bucks on making a piece of jewelry or a quilt they are both still hobbies as it is something I do in my leisure time. i admitt making a greeting card or scrap book page is more hobby but it is still an art. I consider my altered art a hobby as well as making crafts with kids both hobby and an art for them
10-19-2011, 10:31 AM
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To me a hobby is what you do in your spare time. Therefore I'm going to make house cleaning my hobby and quilting what I have to do. I will have no spare time for my hobby of housecleaning! LOL!!!!
10-19-2011, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by so-sew
I'm unsure where my distaste for the word "hobby" stems from, but it feels like people are minimizing the commitment a quilt requires when they refer to my quilting as a "hobby". Stamp collecting is a hobby. I like to think of it more as an art form, in which I have "vision", and then skillfully bring that to fruition. Just curious how you all feel about it. :?
10-19-2011, 10:41 AM
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I don't think most people mean to trivialize quilting by calling it a hobby. They just don't understand the time, effort and expense involved in making these works of art. Just tell everyone you are a fabric artist! That should get their wheels turning.
10-19-2011, 10:58 AM
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Maybe the word "avocation" sounds better?? means the same I think, but it means doing something you really enjoy outside of a full time occupation. I do it because I want to, not because I have to, or receive money for it. Hobby is just a word and much better than some being used these days. :)
10-19-2011, 11:10 AM
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I don't have a problem with the word hobby but for me quilting is more than that. I guess I would say it is a passion what makes me who I am as a person. And I do not do mending, I always say to people when they ask me to do mending or repair something, would you ask Picasso to paint your garage? So maybe that means quilting is my art!
10-19-2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by sewmom
To me a hobby is what you do in your spare time. Therefore I'm going to make house cleaning my hobby and quilting what I have to do. I will have no spare time for my hobby of housecleaning! LOL!!!!
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