How many of you know how to and actively do a needle craft?
Is it a dying art?
Do you think it’s something that only old women/grandmothers do?

I do all three plus sew and I’m learning to spin. Heck, I’m a member of my local knitting and crochet guild. In our guild the average age of knitters/crocheters is about 35 years old. We do have a lot older members but it seems the majority of new members we get are in their 20s and wanting to make their own clothes. I read an article a while back that due to the recession needle crafts like knitting, crochet and sewing are experiencing a resurgence in popularity and based off of what I’ve seen with my group it looks like it’s true.

I don’t think it’s something that old women do (obviously, I’m 26 and do it), there are tons of patterns out there that are made to be worn by young people. It would be funny to see a bunch of old ladies out yarn bombing a city street though.

I like watching movies, dramas, reading, and doing crafts (cross-stitching, painting my nails)

But sometimes I don’t know what other things there are to do, so I want to try finding a new hobby. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it thanks
I’m 15 btw

Not that I get much leisure time but when I do I like to crochet. I’ve been doing that for the last year. Also I like to write stories. I used to paint and I’m starting to get the itch to do it again.

I have a couple of cross stitch patterns/charts that I bought from a thrift shop last year and was thinking I finally stitch them and put this with some finished works that I designed myself so that I could sell them at a craft fair but I wasn’t sure if Dimensions has a rule against selling finished hand-stitched works. Does anyone happen to know if this is allowed or not allowed? I sent an email contact to them about 3 days ago with no response at all yet so I figured I would try here for now.
Thanks for your time and help.

I don’t believe it will be a problem to sell the finished work. Most cross stitch designers don’t have a problem with selling single, finished works. A problem could arise if you were to mass-produce the work or copy and sell the pattern (copyright violation – big no-no). The other poster’s answer about making slight changes to a pattern and selling it as your own is also copyright violation and you can most definitely get hauled into court for that.