The start of my ‘affair’ with quilling

In my last post, I mentioned that my current hobby involves quilling cards, book marks and other tid-bits. Let me post my ‘first’ attempt at quilling and the story behind it.

I have a very close friend who is a constant source of encouragement to me. She’s extremely supportive, lots of fun, very talented and somewhat moody 😛

This attempt to document my quilled creations is inspired by a remark from her 🙂

As you can imagine, when I started experimenting with quilling, I was looking for an excuse to make something for her. She had been out of India for a while and when she came back, I decided to welcome her with a card – it may not look much like it but it is supposed to be an aeroplane.

It’s a plane! Welcoming back a friend 🙂

Of course, I have become better since then. We have had a tradition of sending each other birthday cards – and I mean real cards by snail mail, not ecards or other form of internet based greetings. This birthday, I made another quilled card for her 🙂

(Photo coming soon)

Apart from this, there was a small card I made for my mum that had a quilled elephant on it. At that time, mum was teaching kids in kindergarten and they needed  a few fun cards. Here is the image.

More quilled animals – Elephant

More later!

Hobbies

Everyone should have a hobby. There are many things that I enjoy doing outside of work. Reading, eating, music, watching some series or the other on my laptop and what not.

But I try not of think of all these as my hobbies because although I like eating, I am not a very good cook. I avoid cooking and usually order in or if I have to make something, I take short cuts. My heart is very rarely into cooking!

When it comes to music, I like listening to a variety of artists but I can’t sing to save my life and I have zero instrument playing abilities.

It’s a little different with reading but not much. I love to read and a good book has a longer lasting impact on me. But when it comes to ‘doing’, I don’t write much. I write a few poems now and then. It’s usually funny or based on someone/something I really like or dislike. Accordingly, the poems are either very mean or very sweet!

My ‘current’ hobby is none of the one above but something ‘crafty’! I have always wanted to draw well. Something that I have not been able to do so far. So I compensate for my lack of ‘arty’ skills with my ‘crafty’ skills. Of late, I have been  putting my crafty skills to use and doing some quilling. I quill friends on their bitrthdays, weddings, farewells and other such occassions.

Quilled Animals

It’s super fun (and easy) and generally very well received 🙂

Imp note: These designs may not be ‘original’. There are make using images and techniques ‘copied’ from the internet!