Would you say that these crafts are obscure:

There is a texture that doesn't show up in the photo. I like the old flour sack towels too, but I really love the huck toweling material best. 

Darn, I meant to ask you if you had made it to the Alabama Chanin store (et al) and completely forgot! Too bad you didn't make it by there, it is definitely on my wish list of places I want to go!!

I love Erin Curet's quilled art pieces. I saw her at an art festival last year. She uses.such rich colors.

How about string art? Or I think sometimes it was done with metal wire. I seem to remember my neighbors had a big wire-art ship.

Oh my gosh, I remember doing latch hooking in primary school - I LOVED it!!! We made cushion covers. 

I have never heard of wheat weaving.

A friend of mine has a couple of pet sheep. She bought herself a spinning wheel and spins her own wool, then uses it to knit. Very cool but VERY time consuming.




Oh yeah, my grandfather did string art, great memories! He also did artwork made from some kind of coloured "stuff" like tiny little crystals or rocks? I have no idea what it was called. There was the outline of a drawing and he would glue the little fragments into each section like colour-by-numbers. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about??

I haven't seen any wheat weaving end results, but it sounds interesting.  I think quilling is amazing and for some reason I've seen it pop up a lot lately on Pinterest, and my Facebook feeds.  A comeback maybe?  

I do calligraphy and I think that's an obscure craft. With all the fancy fonts people can just print it instead of doing calligraphy.  I recently started collecting glass calligraphy pens like these.

I am also in the process of KMing my house and ran across a tons of cross stitch books / supplies that I donated and also stained glass supplies that I kept. Are people still cross stitching?  I still love the look but haven't done it in many, many years. 

I am weeding through and pairing down scrapbook supplies too, which some say is a dying art. (Gasp!)  I actually ran across a stash of Mrs. Grossman stickers!  Remember those?!  Good times. I also have a ton of the now long defunct Chatterbox scrapbook papers and embellishments for all of the "rooms."  What a good idea that was, I miss Chatterbox but Melody Ross landed on her feet with the whole Brave Girls Club.  I also apparently owned stock in all of the really embarrassing early Creative Memories stuff, like the dumb templates we used to cut our pictures into stars and hearts, the journaling buddies, and other silly nonsense.  I could have an obscure scrapbook supply yard sale! And no one would come!

"Obscure"...you say that like you haven't tried to make a corn husk doll or a punchneedle art piece lately.

The micro macrame bracelets and jewelry on Etsy and pinterest blow me away! How do they do that with the same old clumsy knots we used to make hanging planters and owls?

I wonder what the next big craft trend (to be later remembered as obscure) is?

There is a scrapbook store not all that far from me that has had quilling classes over the years. Every time I see a piece I think to myself i really should take a class because I think they are so pretty regardless of the picture.

My sister and I each got one of the carousels of liquid embroidery stuff, and a package of transfers for Christmas one year. I was probably 12 or so. We had such a blast doing it. We did all of the pillow cases in the house!