My two are:
Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I’ve been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren’t super consistent because I don’t have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they’ve all been tasty.
Drawing. I’m by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like… yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.
Making chainmail. All you need are a decent pair of flat pliers and some rings. A basic 4 in 1 weave is super easy to learn. There’s more complex stuff of course, but starting out is ridiculously simple. I made a dice bag with probably a dollar or two worth of galvanized steel rings, leather string, and a plastic drawstring clasp.
This would never have crossed my mind as a thing to do. What else does a person make besides a shirt / armor?
Beanies? Cast iron pan scrubbers? Novelty blankets?
Haha, personally I’ve made dice bags and nifty bracelets. Chainmail bikinis are also a thing that’s more popular than you’d think.
You mean women’s armor?
I’ve heard of people who made chainmail blankets not as a novelty but as essentially a weighted blanket for when it’s warm. I don’t know how well it would work in practice because I’d imagine it’d pinch hairs all over you body pretty often but it still seemed like a pretty neat idea.
If you sleep in pyjamas or have a thin sheet between you and the chainmail, then perhaps the hair pinching would be less of an issue.
The chainmail creators for tge Lord of the Rings movies made so much chainmail that they were their fingerprints completely off.