what do you wish you could do?

[MamaBee]

I wish I could sew... I attempted to make my son's halloween costume this year and it almost did me in! I took home ec classes and learned how to sew in 7 and 8th grade - but haven't sewn since.. haha... it is one thing that I would like to do more...

how about you... what do you wish you knew how to do or do better?

[dana]

i actually just bought a sewing machine! this is totally on my list of things i want to learn to do - as well as knitting and/or crochet. i also really really really want to learn to use my camera and play golf and tennis!

[Libby Pritchett]

I would LOVE to learn how to crochet or knit. I see all these awesome handmade hats/scarves/etc, and I'm so jealous that I don't even know where to start!

[taracotta7]

Me too, Rebecca! I wish I could sew! I got a machine and everything. AND something I really wish I could do that goes hand-in-hand with that is quilt. My grandma is the most amazing quilter and I really wish I had her skills.

[jessica31876]

quilting is something I want so much to learn to do. I LOVE quilts. All kinds. And want to learn. Id also like to learn to knit as well. I can do so many types of crafts Im sure I could learn if I tried but I have never tried.

[heathergw]

I already do it all and I'm totally awesome at everything I do

[emmasmommy]

i'm like libby. i want to crochet/knit.

also, i want to be able to sing and not sound like a cat in heat.

[jenn7]

I also want to learn how to sing. I also wish I could ice skate. Always loved watching the figure skaters....

[heathergw]

Oh.... You want a serious answer? LOL

I want to learn to draw or paint

[ripal]

I just made the list last weekend about what I would want to do/learn if time and money was no object!

how to make great pastries
how to cut/style hair professionally
how to become a capable seamstress
Read more (have TONS of book but no time)
Learn how to swim
take some cooking classes/take culinary classes
Study yoga and pilates.
how to bake a variety of breads using all types of flour, etc.
Learn to dance.
Flower arranging
pencil drawing
quilting
knit(started learning this weekend)
Vegetable gardening
Cake decorating
improve my basic photography skills

[Sasha]

I want to learn to sew.

[KristinCB]

sew here too! so badly i'd like to be able to do it

organize - honestly i wish i could be better at that

cook/bake.. i'd like to take the time to make better meals from recipes and different stuff. i burn and overcook so much and i need to just be better

[lizzyfizzy]

i really really freaking wish i could break dance. not kidding.

and play the drums. one of these days i'm gonna learn me some drums. the break dancing is obviously a pipe dream since i'm a chubby mexican gal.

[littlekiwi]

cook
sew
photography

[Aggie Aviso]

Oh wow, this would be totally embarrassing but:
I wish I knew ...
how to ride a bike
swim
sing! (biggest frustration ever, haha).
cook

[*Celeste*]

i want to knit as well.

[Libby Pritchett]

Oh and fluently speak a foreign language. I took 3 years of French in high school, but there hasn't been much need for it in my daily life. Would love to learn either French or Spanish for real.

[kscwgirl]

I hope you all are scrapping these for the portfolio

I want to crochet.

[Leila]

Honestly, I'd love to learn to scrap again. I really feel like I've completely forgotten how, hence only doing five pages all of last year.

I'm here to encourage you guys who want to learn to knit--I picked it up end of February last year and I love it!! Seriously, if I can knit, anyone can!! (As proof--even JP, who's 12, can knit pretty well. He hasn't done anything more than cast on and knit a few rows, but he can do it.)

[lizzyfizzy]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

Oh and fluently speak a foreign language.

i feel you, libby. my mom is hispanic and fluent. i took 3 years in high school. went to mexico for a missions trip and took a lengthy trip to spain in high school and i don't remember a lick. it's so frustrating!

[ripal]

If I can knit, ANYONE can! LOL Just check out my FB post from Sunday night and you'll know! I was fighting with needles, watching the tutorials 15-20 times, kids laughing their heads off at my attempts and flying needles. Finally, next day, I was able to knit whole 5 rows!

[Libby Pritchett]

Originally Posted by lizzyfizzy

i feel you, libby. my mom is hispanic and fluent. i took 3 years in high school. went to mexico for a missions trip and took a lengthy trip to spain in high school and i don't remember a lick. it's so frustrating!

Seriously! If I ever go to France, about the only thing I have a hope of being able to communicate is asking where the library is. THAT is the one thing I remember. LOL

[lizzyfizzy]

maddie is in her 2nd year of french and she is doing amazing! she is one of those lucky people that everything comes to naturally. she want's to stick with french through high school so hopefully she will pick up the slack for the both of us.

[adrianka]

Speak at least 20 languages like a native speaker. :-)

[kscwgirl]

The only things I remember from my 2 years of French in high school are the dirty words the foreign exchange student taught us. Not super productive.

[Libby Pritchett]

hahaha Sara! I remember when I was in French and I finally figured out what the song "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir" was saying. LOL (So I guess that's another thing I can add to my French-speaking repertoire.)

[AmberK]

I want to learn to sew too. I have taken classes before (even took a quilting class) but I didnt keep at it and lost my skills. Plus I got this fancy schmancy machine from my mom and it really scares me. Need to get over that fear.

Photography- I want to learn to shoot in manual so bad but I swear its like math for me. I.JUST.DONT.GET.IT <sigh>

[kscwgirl]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

hahaha Sara! I remember when I was in French and I finally figured out what the song "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir" was saying. LOL (So I guess that's another thing I can add to my French-speaking repertoire.)

Yes, that too.

[nesser1981]

Ok 1, I want to learn to sew.

2, all of you that want to learn to crochet, youtube videos. Take it from someone that learned almost a year ago via youtube.

And I have made blankets, dozens of hats, scarves, even a robot for Cooper.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

Seriously! If I ever go to France, about the only thing I have a hope of being able to communicate is asking where the library is. THAT is the one thing I remember. LOL

Well, you can't beat my Hungarian sentence - The cat is in the basket. That, along with a bunch of random words, is what's left from my pitiful efforts to self-teach myself Hungarian 20 years ago.

My Swedish sentence is - I learned Swedish for 3 years but I have forgotten everything. That's also a true sentence. Sad really.

And I can recite the Father's Prayer in Gothic. That's possibly the least useful one I ever learned (Gothic was spoken in the 7th century or something).

Oh, and I have a friend who knows the best sentence in Rumanian - I NEED A DESSERT.

[SmallMoments]

Same as you. Sewing. Or knitting more than a washcloth.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

hahaha Sara! I remember when I was in French and I finally figured out what the song "voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir" was saying. LOL (So I guess that's another thing I can add to my French-speaking repertoire.)

Your knowledge is almost epic, Libby. Imagine this dialogue:

"Do you want to sleep with me?"

"Yes."

"Can we go to the library, then?" :-)))

[Andrea Gourley]

I wish I could sing. I teach in a special school and we have a song for EVERYTHING in my class - put your coat, eat your dinner, stretch your arms, go to the bathroom, go swimming - you name it and I sing about it and I sound dreadful

Also knit, lots of people have tried to teach me and I even have a degree in textiles but sadly the only thing I can knit is a hole

Mostly I'd love to be able to do chit chat in real life, I'm a really quiet girl, if I have something to say then I say it but I am no good at filling in spaces and quiet times in conversations and I can't do chattering. I wish I could

[lauren grier]

ditto vanessa on youtube videos for crotcheting & knitting. :]

what I want.. is to be able to make full rounded meals properly I'm still in the learning phase on cooking meats properly and i'm so so bad about putting together the whole thing. like what sides go with what meats, and you know making the meal more than here's a piece of chicken and here's a pile of plain white rice

[SeattleSheri]

I'd like to learn to make hybrid projects.

[Libby Pritchett]

Originally Posted by adrianka

Your knowledge is almost epic, Libby. Imagine this dialogue:

"Do you want to sleep with me?"

"Yes."

"Can we go to the library, then?" :-)))

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha I could be very popular in France, I think.

[pomi]

Sing well for me, too. Sometimes I sound great and surprise everyone around including me. And sometimes it's such crap.

And my foreign language sentence is "I'm a good girl." in Italian. Also, "A boy carries a letter to Sudan." in Arabic. And the beginning of Cicero's speech against Catilina in Latin. Very useful.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by pomi

And my foreign language sentence is "I'm a good girl." in Italian. Also, "A boy carries a letter to Sudan." in Arabic. And the beginning of Cicero's speech against Catilina in Latin. Very useful.

That's a very good collection, too.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha I could be very popular in France, I think.

I imagine so. :-)

[jessica31876]

my daughter took french and latin in highschool. She remembers very little. My son was taking American Sign Language. He said they were not really teaching them to speak or rather sign to communicate to begin with but teaching basic signs and the alphabet. I took one semester in middle school of spanish. I can remember colors/numbers/some weekdays & months/ a few bad words and some basic words for everyday things but defenitely not enough to speak to someone who is speaking spanish or understand them. My best friend's sister though took spanish in school and works as a translator for an insurance company I think she told me. She speaks it fluently. I think for some people language just comes easier. I think learning another language would be cool though. Id like to speak many different languages.

[kendallt]

You all have already mentioned several items on my list, but here it is:

- Sew and knit
- Dance (like the girls on SYTYCD)
- Speak a foreign language fluently
- Do math in my head
- Have an eye for interior design (I seriously have no idea what looks good with what!)
- Become a real cook...the kind that knows how to make everything from scratch
- Be a professional photographer
- Roller skate
- Drive a stick
- Scuba dive
- Draw
- Whistle with my fingers

[MamaBee]

Originally Posted by heathergw

I already do it all and I'm totally awesome at everything I do

Well - hahaha!! Wish you lived closer - you could show me!

[MamaBee]

Originally Posted by emmasmommy

also, i want to be able to sing and not sound like a cat in heat.

Oh, I wish this too... or had shame not to sing in public...

[Jengerbread88]

I want to.learn to sew, learn French and Icelandic, and how to build something from scratch, like a bookcase. My dad is anti girls with tools, so ive never done it.

To all of the ladies wanting to knit, I cant do it traditionally to save my life but have any of you looked into loom knitting
I do it all the time- its so much fun!

[MamaBee]

Originally Posted by Libby Pritchett

Seriously! If I ever go to France, about the only thing I have a hope of being able to communicate is asking where the library is. THAT is the one thing I remember. LOL

haha.... my IRL BF took 8 yeas of Latin and she can only say "She is not a pig farmer" and "Excuse me sir, can we fish here?" lol... she used the fishing one when she went to see the Vatican while in college - hahhaha

[Jengerbread88]

I can say "I'm doing well without you" and "my friend the tree is dead" in German... but that's about it.

[LenaGardner]

The thing I want to learn to do is pretty doable. Knit, crochet, sew, quilt, cross stich, I can do all that. I have always been incredibly craft from a young age.

But I want to learn to play piano.

Piano lessons are a fairly mainstream thing. They don't cost much and don't take much time and there's no reason for me to be NOT doing it. I just have never done it.

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Jengerbread88

I want to.learn to sew, learn French and Icelandic, and how to build something from scratch, like a bookcase. My dad is anti girls with tools, so ive never done it.

Icelandic, yay! I always wanted to learn Icelandic, too. :-)

[adrianka]

Originally Posted by Jengerbread88

I can say "I'm doing well without you" and "my friend the tree is dead" in German... but that's about it.

That one about the tree cracks me up. :-D I can't imagine the context. A fairy tale of sorts?

[maryinaz]

I can sew. When I got my first job out of college, I made all my own work clothes (dresses and skirts mostly) because it was cheaper. And if I had had girls, oh the little sundresses I would have made! But boys, eh, hard to sew anything for them. So I don't sew much anymore - the last thing I made were those aprons for my friends 2 years ago.

I used to crochet, but now I have no desire to make anything from yarn since it's just way too hot here to wear any of it.

Really, and truly, I would like to know how to fix plumbing problems. But the tools for any kind of trade like that are way too expensive.