Start a New Hobby Week - Day Three

© Kate Pullen

I hope you're enjoying our look at different crafts and hobbies from around About.com. If any of them have piqued your interest in trying a new pastime, I'd love to hear about it!

Here's today's installment of articles made just for the new hobbyist:

• Model Trains - Assembling Your First Train Set
• Contests and Sweepstakes - Getting Started with Sweepstakes Part 3: Making Sense of Social Sweepstakes
• Painting - Start a Hobby Week: What Art Supplies To Buy
• Ballet - Ballet for Absolute Beginners
• DIY Fashion Start to Sew: Stitches for Hand Sewing
• Collectibles - Collecting Concert T-Shirts -- Did You Save Them?
• Crochet Resources for Learning the Chain Stitch in Crochet
• Jewelry Making - Super Simple Jewelry Projects
• Cross Stitch - Learn to Back Stitch - Lessons for Beginners
• Miniatures - Beginners Guide to Working With Printable Miniatures
• Beadwork - Needles and Thread for Beadwork
• Pottery - Tools for New Potters
• Rubber Stamping - Getting Started with Color
• Drawing & Sketching - Learn to Draw: Pencil Shading

Enjoy and have fun learning something new!