queer_scribbling | Fandom Snowflake Challenge

Challenge #6: Top Ten Challenge. The category or categories you choose are up to you.

I want this post to be done more than I want to hit a designated number, so this is a top six.

Top Six Hobbies (I've heard about recently) With Fan Art Potential

1. Needle Felting

You stab wool with a needle, and there's blending and layering stuff that happens to make a thing. ~so-i-did-this-thing needle felted Vonolel, a pet ret from the show, for his Siegfried Farnon cosplay. Fascinating to see the reblog chain play out on that.

2. Diamond Painting

I must confess that I originally thought there was paint brush and paint type of painting involved in this, but it turns out that this is a cousin of paint-by-number kits, except you get little colored resin diamonds to place. Depending on the site you order a kit from, you may be able to find characters or celebrities to choose from, or you usually have an option to custom order an image. (People usually use their own photos of family and pets, so some listings will focus on that with examples of what images to upload.)

3. Bookbinding

AKA create your own book. Since I'm usually in fannish spaces, it's more specifically fanbinding, which is turning a piece of fannish writing into a book. I like seeing whatever crosses my Tumblr dash, but I've never been brave enough to try it. (What on earth would I fanbind? It seems like a lot of things to acquire. Our printer has been unhappy for long enough that we usually go to the library for printing things. Granted, there's no-glue pamphlets...)

4. Thanks to ~Kalium's Challenge 12 post, I've found out that polymer clay sculpture is a thing. (An unexpected benefit to letting entries simmer on the back-burner a bit.)

5. Miniatures

Please imagine there's a question mark hanging over this one. A random Tumblr post showing someone making very tiny books for a character I didn't recognise in a little library in a box scene crossed my dash the other day. I don't know enough about this to really know what to google here, but with the amount of Warhammer and TTRPG suggestions I'm running into, there's definitely more than one fandom involved in this area of fan crafts.

6. Amigurumi

I mentally associate this with crochet, but I think one can also use knitting to create stuffed yarn creations. I'm not sure if ~dailypokemoncrochet is specifically doing amigurumi [they're documenting freehanding crochet at least], but there are lots of results if you google for amigurumi patterns and a franchise (DC, Marvel, KPop Demon Hunters, etc.). It's the sort of thing that's nice to watch other people make, but I'd probably only ever try as a gift for someone I really knew wanted the end result (especially if I have to learn how to crochet in the process).

Originally posted on Pillowfort on 12 January 2026 and revealed on 27 January 2026.