If you are artistic and nothing but highly creative and colourful art can satisfy your creative juices, then paper quilling is the perfect hobby for you.

Let’s see what Q for Quilling is all about.

Beautiful horse head – pic courtesy – internet

Quilling is the beautiful art of rolling strips of paper, glued together to make art. Quilling can be used to create greeting cards, wall hangings or for making personalized gifts.

Personalized gift – pic courtesy – internet

The tools required for quilling are,

  1. Slotted tool to curl the strips of quilling paper.
  2. Curling coach, which makes curling faster and easy, mostly used for 3 D miniature quilling projects.
  3. Tweezers, used to avoid warping and also during placement of coils as per the design. Easy handling is possible with tweezers.

Quilling Tool Set

How can we forget the most important part of quilling, the quilling paper.

Quilling Paper Strips – available as is

If you are up for it, you can even shred your own paper into strips to use in quilling, using a shredder.

Paper Shredder

With summer around the corner, what is a better pass time than, quilling?  Kids can make simple greeting cards with this technique.

Simple Greeting cards

Lastly, make your own artsy jewellery. You are bound to get compliments!

Rainbow themed earrings -Artsy Jewellery

Go ahead, get quilling!

P.S:

  1. The other hobbies starting with a Q are Quilting and Quizzing!
  2. People who are interested in recycling and think about the planet once in a while, better get into quilting. It is such a useful art.  One mom had DIYed a quilt with all her baby’s clothes and gifted them to her daughter. Such an interesting gift idea. Though I love quilting and never tried it, this hobby post is about quilling, since, even kids can start doing simple quilling.
  3. I received quilling jewellery as gifts from S (sis) and M (distant relative). Don’t wear quilling jewellery during rainy season, if you want them to be safe!

Till the next hobby post, ciao!