Crafting feels like it's in an odd place right now. You can be self-sufficient salvaging & crafting through hell using the standard recipes, patterns drop through inferno but the costs are high enough & the likelihood of a good roll low enough that it's tough to justify spending the gold & materials on the crafts at all. If you're totally ignoring the auction house, you may be able to accent your finds with the occasional 6 prop craft, but the 4 props are mostly going to be disappointing.
The new patch patterns will do something for that but, unless you're farming up a fair amount of gold, getting lucky with AH-able drops or playing the AH regularly, you're going to have to be pretty selective about crafting or be prepared to be permanently broke.
I'm likely to craft a bit out of curiousity using the gold my witchdoctor with silly pickup radius gathers, but since I'm not terribly rich I expect to do so rarely & with poor results.
As an aside, I've also not bothered completing a staff of herding, maybe one day