Hey friends, NaCraMaMo is in full swing. It's now just on Dreamwidth.

Follow along with us!

https://nacramamo.dreamwidth.org

Honestly, I haven't been on LJ since last October. Is there anyone still here? And still interested in NaCraMaMo? I'm planning on doing the challenge over on the DW NaCraMaMo community, and wondered if I should still crosspost here.

Days 23-25

These days are kinda blurry, and I may have worked on the cross stitch one or more of the days.



Day 26

I remember the date on this because I had to take the kids to the park after school, as the packers were still packing, so I had time to do another couple of rows in that rectangle on the right.



Days 27-31

We moved on the 27th, and I've been unpacking ever since. 4 days of unpacking just the kitchen stuff, and I might have a working kitchen sometime tomorrow.

I did break out the Halloween decorations this afternoon; I put up a few things, and then my kids went to town...

OMG, I move in FIVE DAYS! And my Babies turned 10 this week!

Day 16
I had a dental anesthetic hangover following the day of my dental work and anesthetic fog, so no crafting.

Day 17-18
I was forgetful, so this pic is a to-fer.



Day 19



Day 20



Day 21



Day 22

I did mention that things are crazy, right? I managed to plug along on the cross stitch anyway.

Day 10



Days 11-12
I forgot to take a picture on day 11, so you get a picture of days 11 and 12



Day 13


Day 14



Day 15
There really wasn't a day 15. I had a bunch of dental work done, and was pretty zonked on pain killers, so I couldn't focus.

I guess this counts :-D I am making a paper sphere as part of my homework project. Yesterday I cut out all the large pieces and covered them in Cricut vinyl (yes, you can hand cut with it). I was going to assemble it today, but then I realized I should assemble a small model first to get the hang of it. It is a little tricky--there is a top and bottom with eight rings and twelve segments.

I designed it using http://www.templatemaker.nl which is a very nifty site for anything 3D.

I probably won't be participating as much as in previous years. I'm back at the art college for my final year and it's exhausting!

But, I'll try to post here and there when I can and come back to enjoy your progress pictures.

Happy Thanksgiving to any Canadian peeps!

More cross stitch... It doesn't look like much, but that black rectangle keeps getting bigger.

Day 7



Day 8



Day 9

The days are toooooo busy. And, if you've followed my history here at all, I'm doing well if I manage to post every-other day.


Day 4

We had a birthday in the house, so I made a huge birthday dinner, including dessert, which took about three hours, and really precluded doing any other crafting, but dessert is crafting, so here's a picture of birthday pear-blueberry cobbler.



Day 5

Back to the cross stitch



Day 6

I made time for my weekly Wednesday stitch-in, and managed to stitch about 125 stitches in 2 hours!

Working the stitches...

Day 2



Day 3

I'm working mostly a single WIP this year. It's a 2019 Mystery SaL that was supposed to be completed in 8 weeks, I think. That means one was supposed to stitch 150 stitches A DAY. HaHAHAHAHhahaha. Some days, I'm lucky to get in 25, if I manage to stitch at all. Anyway I worked on page 2 most of the summer, and made decent progress. However, I stalled in August when I hit all the leftover confetti and I've only been working on it once or twice a week with my stitch-in group.

Progress through 2021 09 29



Today, I finished all of the confetti!



On to page 3!

Hi all,

I am your worldly-burdened moderator, LadyThmpr (I don't use my real name in social media). I'm a domestic Goddess and SAHM to twin girls almost 10 For crafting, I mostly bead, cross stitch, and bake, with occasional forays into latch hook, sewing, ceramic painting, and mixed-media.

This year, my household is moving into our very own house sometime in late October or early November, so most of my brain will be dealing with that in addition to all the usual everyday stuff. I expect that I'm not going to get very much crafting done. In addition, I'm going to limit my crafting (mostly) to my current cross-stitch WIP, as it's small and portable, and I have to search less for its component parts. :)

I'm looking forward to seeing all the wonderful and varied crafts all of you do during NaCraMaMo!

I'm not, not really. But October starts in 5 days, whether we're ready or not.

The world is still crazy, and the pandemic isn't gone by a long shot, and in many ways, I think I'm still just getting through the days.

I rise to the challenge though. Come join me in any way that the challenge makes sense to you.

Please post an introduction, and let us know what you might work on.

This is project 3 from my Tuesday class that I worked on in October. It's a tube dress that doubles as a lap blanket. It needs more structure, like a bodice in the top and heftier straps. I didn't realize how heavy the yarn would be.

I made this dress to memorialize Calgary's 2013 flood. You may have heard of temperature scarves. This is a rainfall gauge! I converted mm of rainfall to inches and inches into rows. If you count down from the top, May and June were the rainiest months. It hugs the body like a river hugs the land. I feel this piece will help me talk about the importance of the Bow River should anyone ask me about the dress.

Specs:
240 rows
Panel 1--130 needles
Panel 2--20 needles
Red Heart So Soft and Loops & Threads yarn.

Here's my finished homework project from my art class. I'm kind of embarrassed how much glue went into this. I wanted to try a technique using soutache cord, but I didn't have time to order the cord. I only had Michaels available to me and they didn't quite have the supplies or stones I wanted. The blue stone is actually an upside down pendant :-D

I also wanted to wire wrap the branch, feet and beak, but that didn't work out either. As my friend says, life is all about Plan B :-D This really feels like a prototype. I would like to try it again and make a wearable pin.

I'm working on my homework which is due on Thursday. My fake soutache is working out well. My secret is Tombow glue, which is super sticky latex glue. It holds and remains flexible. I built up the design on a felt base and I was limited to things I could find at Michaels since I didn't have time to order proper soutache cord or beads. Of course, Michaels was out of the basic colours like black and gold, so I had to improvise. I'll post a picture of the finished piece when I'm done :-)

It's been a really sucky week. But I did something crafty every day, even if I didn't create.


Day 26

I worked some more on moving stuff around and putting things away.

Day 27

I worked some more at getting things reorganized and put away, and I even took a picture!

Where I started on Monday:


Where I ended on Tuesday:



I also did some latch hooking (first pic is what I had done previously)



Day 28

I tackled the first batch of jewelry supplies! This is my last online order, so it's been sitting in that box for MONTHS. (Last summer, I put a moratorium on bringing in any more crafting supplies (with an exception or two) until I could find all the things I already had.) I got about half the box put away into storage boxes.



I also had a stitch-in, where I got only a little bit of cross stitching on my SaL done, because there was a guest speaker, and she had pretty things to show!




Day 29

I finished getting all the beads from the box I started on 10/28 put away into storage boxes!



And then, I got all the storage boxes put away onto the shelves!



Day 30

Day 30 was a day of prodding kids a lot and just feeling entirely unmotivated. Things got a better once we got around to pumpkin carving, so after dinner, I settled in with TrollHunters and my latch hook. Unfortunately, after I had put in about another half-dozen columns, I discovered that I had put in the wrong color of pink, so I spent more than 30 minutes frogging. Frogging latch hook is a lot more difficult than frogging cross stitch!

I'm behind on posting, but I'll try to make up for it. It's just been another biz biz week. Today I sat down with my knitting machine in the evening. Every fibre artist knows the pain of frogging and unravelling and I was so mad at myself for having to undo 130 stitches. I made one row too many. For the sake of striping, I couldn't get it go :D

The trouble with undoing stitches on a knitting machine is that you have to put the previous stitch back on the needle. Things you don't want to do 130 times ;-D

The steel needles are also sharp and somehow I dragged my pinkie across the hooks. Now my knitting machine has a taste for blood! Great!

Ah well...no pain, no gain.

Day 23

I started to weed out and rearrange items on the *other* set of shelves (maybe a picture when I'm all the way done, as it doesn't look all that different from the before picture).

Day 24

I made a Cowboy Cake for the Birthday Girls' Zoom birthday party. And we were a good chunk of the way through that when I realised that I forgot to take a picture.

Day 25

I made my Mom a pair of Halloween earrings. And forgot to take a picture before I put them into the envelope.


At least, I got some decent sleep last night, so I might remember pictures today!

"Behind on posting" should be my middle name...

Day 20

My little girls turned 9! For their birthday celebration, they helped me make a yellow cake with pink frosting and a strawberry-blueberry cobbler. I forgot to take a picture before the desserts were both half-eaten.



I also sorted out that bag of estate sale embroidery fiber and got them sorted out by type, including mess...



Day 21

I sorted out the mess of tangled fibers on my desk, aided by a pair of sharp pointy scissors. (not shown)

I dusted off my sewing machine from a weeks-long hiatus, and sewed a couple of bags to hold humidity-lowering rice in our new beardie's enclosure and I also sewed some more mask pieces (not shown).



I got some work done on my SaL when I finally was able to attend my weekly Stitch-In.



Day 22

Crazy day. Towards the end of the day, I redid one kid's headphone covers, because she said that she couldn't hear through the foam. Hopefully, third time is the charm...

I have been crafting daily, but I haven't had much of a chance to sit down. Project 2 for my Thursday class involves making some sort of ornamentation. It can be jewelry, ornament on canvas...etc...so I'm looking at soutache. It started snowing here, so I don't know if I'll be going out later to get some large focal beads or cord. I still have plenty of other beads.

Day 17..

The was no Day 17. After a couple nights of little and bad sleep, I couldn't concentrate on anything well enough not to make it worse.

Day 18

I felt better. I got all my polymer clay stuff in one place! (and then I found the clay roller after I took the picture.



I also got some stitching done on the SaL.



Day 19

I tackled some more of the mess on my office desk and floor. Some got put away, some got put in a box to get put away later. I can see the top of my desk again! (no pic, because it got dark by the time I got a round tuit)

Day 15 ended with my office being a mess. So, Day 16 was more sorting. I went through my charts/pattern/instructions, decided on categories, and sorted them into an accordion file that was not being used well for, well, filing. I found a bunch of trim and got it all put into zip bags. I did the same with some polymer clay and accessories (though I think I will probably eventually store them in DMC boxes).

It eventually got too hot in the office (we had a heat advisory today) so I took a long break. But, before dinner, I sorted out all the modern DMC floss that was at the bottom of the yarn box, recorded it in the spreadsheet, and put it away!



I still have the stuff in the bag to go through; it's a mix of pearl cotton and tapestry yarn and what is probably old-enough-to-be-considered-antique DMC floss. I've done a little research, and the really old thread might not be worth stitching with.

After all that, I repaired the second kid headset.

On Day 15, I tackled the box of yarn in the living room



and other yarn already in the office. I emptied out one basket to consolidate that batch of rug yarn with my other rug yarn on the bottom shelf. I roughed-sorted a LOT of crafting charts to empty another basket so I could get all my non-tapestry yarn into the big baskets and the jersey "yarn" into the smaller basket.



Once I got all that yarn put in the baskets, in the bottom of the box, guess what I found?



Yup, more embroidery floss! But that's for another day.

And all that sorting has not improved the state of my office. :(

To end the day, I sorted perler beads while on a zoom chat.

My kids were extraordinarily on their school game today ( I tried a different approach today, and it seemed to work), and that meant I had time and energy to work on some more organizing.

Here's where I started today:



I got more embroidery stuff sorted --hoops,frames, kits, charts,and WIPs-- and put away.



I was hoping that the DMC boxes would be big enough to put all my plastic canvas sheets in, but the drawers are about 3/8" short. I will have to find another solution for those. I found some more floss: loose strands got wound on bobbins and put in the kid box, and the floss that I knew was DMC got entered into the spreadsheet and put away into the floss boxes. and unfortunately, there's a bunch of odd an ends of various things that need to go somewhere, but I'm not sure where yet, which means that they are all over my floor and desk. I've already identified a number of things that will be going out of my house (and maybe some of the O&E will join them).

Where I stopped:



Also, the DMC boxes I filled yesterday and today got put up on top of the shelves. (Yay, tall people!)

I had my weekly stitching zoom today, and I actually worked on my SaL cross stitch.

Day 12

I wasn't really feeling like doing anything, so I went looking for a latch hook project that I had recently started, because I'm usually able to do latch hook when I'm incapable of doing anything else. I found the yarn, but not the canvas. While I was looking for the canvas, I found a bag of floss (like I knew I would). I got the floss sorted, entered into the spreadsheet, and put away into the appropriate floss box. SO EASY now. Unfortunately, there were a lot of duplicates. Hopefully, the new system will keep me from buying duplicates again.




Day 13

A busy day with kid school wrangling. In between all the denial, I wiped out a DMC box, found all of my embroidery fabric (mostly Aida), and put it into the box drawers. While I was wiping out the drawers, I found a skein of floss hidden underneath one drawer. It was even one I didn't have!



Alas, the drawers are not quite long enough for the tubes to fit properly. However, this will do for now.

Wow, time flies!

Day 8

I cleared out a small box from the office. The contents were from the kid bag that hasn't been used since the kids have been home from school, and I have no idea why that stuff was in my office. All the stuff got put away!

In the afternoon I took a little time away from home to take some nature photos, BY MYSELF. I'll link when I have them up. It was really nice to get out alone outside that wasn't a trip to the grocery store.

Day 9

I actually worked on the cross stitch WIP mystery stitch-a-long that was supposed to be done last year.



Day 10

I worked some more on the above-mentioned WIP. First I discovered that I had just too many loose threads on the back that needed to be clipped, because they kept catching on my working thread. So, I clipped 'em!



And then, worked some more catch-free stitches!



Day 11

My kids have been using headphones where I've recovered the speakers with heavy fleece because the foam had disintegrated, but they still found the headphones too hard. Today, I took the covers apart on one to add some foam (a reuse from a package I received recently). The kid pronounced it cushy, so I did the other side. Sometime later this week, I need to add foam to the pair the other kid is using.



Also, I made some vegan and gluten-free Peanut Butter Banana Blondies. I had some bananas the HAD to be used, but not enough eggs, and I was tired of the same old banana bread. This turned out different than I expected, but it was good (though the kids say that it's not their favorite, and it's not as good as my banana bread).

Yesterday was a fun day--I spent three HOURS chatting and crafting with one of my friends who lives in another time zone. I can't believe the time flew by so fast. She sewed while I tried to get my knitting machine up and running with a new project to show her how it worked. I'm still a newbie with the Ultimate Sweater Machine, but eventually I'll make a sweater! It was just so much fun to talk to someone other than hubs :-D I have tried Zooming with the craft club, but it's so large it's just too chaotic.

I took some drawings from my budgie colouring book and made them into a pattern. My goal was 80s inspired and it ended up more pastel than Lisa Frank, LOL! I would really like to see this one on a shirt. I think I could add another budgie and improve where the edges meet. Pattern making is such a journey. Here is what it looks like tiled.

Day 5:

I found a few more bits and bobs of embroidery threads, noted them in the spreadsheet, and put them in the appropriate floss storage boxes! (no pic)

Day 6:

I found some more floss, noted them in the spreadsheet, and put them in the appropriate floss storage boxes! I also got all the drawers labeled, so I should be able to find floss more easily!



I can say that I'm about 95% done with this project, and not 100% done, because I KNOW that I will find more floss as I continue to organize and clean the craft storage space.

Day 7:

I cleared off the top of the shelves where the floss storage boxes were going, wiped of the tops of the shelves and got all of the floss storage boxes put up!







I also got about 10 stitches done in one of my cross stitch WIPs, but it wasn't enough that I took a picture. Maybe more today.


And just for posterity, here's all the boxes and baskets (that held stuffed full plastic bags) that the floss was in.



And here's how it all looks now!

We had to make three patterns from a list of pattern types and I chose geometric. It was surprisingly hard to do! I made a cardstock sample with craft punches and then moved the shapes around in CorelDraw. I cut, copied, rotated and whatnot to arrive at this pattern. Adding things, removing things...it's all part of the process. I also wanted it to be more about the colour palette than the design. Here's what it looks like tiled. It reminds me of granny squares.

I'm taking two classes at art college right now. It's not like I can use my vacation time to actually go anywhere! My Thursday homework involves creating patterns, so here is the first one, a repeating pattern. I wanted to mimic embroidery with it.

I made it in Rhino and then imported the different shapes into CorelDraw to add colour. I used this colour palette from Design Seeds for inspiration.

I have an Addi Express circular knitting machine and it makes a hat in in about half an hour. As fun as the knitting machine is, you do get tired of cranking it. Anyway, I am making hats for a local group that puts them in bags along with toiletries, mittens and scarves for the needy. I probably won't do any craft sales this year, so it's nice that someone can benefit :-)

I finished bobbining THE MESS and bobbinated the proto-bracelets as well.



I also made a berry cobbler for a birthday in our household.

Surprise (to no one), I dealt with more embroidery floss. I found a couple more baggies of fancy metallic floss, which got inventoried and put away. Then, I wond more floss around bobbins during my weekly ST:TNG group viewing.

That whole how to inventory Anchor and J&P Coats embroidery floss made such an impression on my subconscious that it worked on that problem all night, and by the time I woke up, it had made the executive decision that, because I will likely never buy or use either brand of floss on purpose, I shouldn't spend hours trying to determine old or modern or color name and just throw them into the kid box and be done. So, when I woke up, I did just that! :)

Later in the afternoon, I inventoried my Kreinik Metallics and put them in a drawer. Then, I came to THE MESS. I must have bought THE MESS at a garage sale; it's a lot of different colors of floss mixed together, along with some unfinished friendship bracelets. I pulled it all apart mostly intact, and got about half the thread bobbined up while watching TV.

I guess that's the story of my posting all over...

Day 1:

As I stated in my intro post, much of NaCraMaMo for me will be organizing (or reorganizing?) my craft storage/storage room/office. I started this heraculean tasks couple of weeks ago, because I literally couldn't get into my office without tripping over something, and I've discovered that I can get more done if I start my day sitting in my office chair instead of my recliner. I rough- sorted everything into boxes, which moved out into the foyer and living room. I decided to start with my embroidery threads: getting them out of their bobbin boxes and plastic bags and baskets, inventorying everything into a spreadsheet (because I AM able to do that with the thread, and I'm tired of buying more of the same stuff because I don't know what I have; should I tell you how many skeins of 930 that I have? :), and then putting everything away into the DMC floss boxes I acquired more than a year ago. As of yesterday, I was almost done with the inventorying, with the exception of the random bits of J&P Coats and Anchor threads, some linen thread, and the tin of the new DMC Etoile thread that I got for my birthday a few days ago.

So for my task yesterday, I got through the linen thread, and then the Etoile thread, and got them tucked away in the drawers of the DMC floss boxes. Inventorying the Etoile floss was harder that it should have been, because, of course, my inventory sheet lists the thread in number order, but the floss in the tin was in color families order.

Etoile thread in their tin; photo does not do it justice...



Thread put away in the drawer; I'd even left room for it, knowing that I'd get it "someday."



I then proceeded to fall down a rabbit hole with regards to charts for J&P Coats and Anchor floss colors, and old vs. new, and finally called it for dinner.


Then, during a zoom chat, I sorted a couple more hundred perler beads from a jar of 20000 (I've been working on that all summer).

I'm back with for another NaCraMaMo! This year I'm taking two classes at art college (it's not like I'm using the vacation time for something else!) and I hope I can share some of my projects from class.

For today, I made a vlog about my kniting machine. I bought a brand new Bond America Ultimate Sweater Machine. It will be a while before I can make a sweater, but certainly everyone is getting a shawl for Christmas ;-D

Hi all,

I am your worldly-burdened moderator, LadyThmpr (I don't use my real name in social media). I'm a domestic Goddess and SAHM to twin girls almost 9, who are distance learning this fall, which takes up most of my daytime hours. For crafting, I mostly bead, cross stitch, and bake, with occasional forays into latch hook, sewing, ceramic painting, and mixed-media.

For this year's NaCraMaMo challenge, I want to finish reorganizing the office/craft storage room ( I started mid-September) and occasionally work on a beading (some of them only need findings, for goodness sake!) or cross stitch WIP.

I've not been feeling much like creating this year (I feel burdened even though I've not suffered from the pandemic, and then I feel guilty), but I'd really like to be able to find all my craft stuff and actually FINISH something.

Holy moly, I thought it was STILL March!!!

I've not created much this year. Honestly, it's been a year of just getting through it. However, I think I'm still going to do the challenge anyway.

Come join me in any way that the challenge makes sense to you.

Please post an introduction, and let us know what you might work on.

Day 28

I started to attach the gold cloth to the top of K's costume. I had NOTHING but problems: curling, bunching, thread breaking, and the bottom of the shirt disintegrating under the stitching. After a frustrating 90 minutes, I stopped and went on to more pleasant activities, like folding laundry.



Day 29

I assessed the gold trim again; I changed the sewing machine needle (I had been using the wrong kind), and changed the thread, but nothing worked, and my skills were not up to trying to make it work and get finished in 3 days. I admitted defeat, and informed K, who wailed and wailed. I promised her we would work on it again starting in January, and have it ready for our local SF convention in May. (And in the meantime, I'll get my machine serviced, because tension was part of the problem, and find a substitute for the gold fabric that isn't as finicky.)



(I took K to a thrift store after school on Wed, and we were able to find her a suitable beautiful costume.)

Day 30

Since I hadn't put my sewing machine away yet, GB asked me to repair the stitching on the waistband of his pants (no picture).

Day 31

The clutter in my office/craft storage space had become overwhelming, and I needed to get things sorted in there so at least I wasn't tripping and slipping and having things fall on my head.

Before


After


And, after returning home from the sugar mugging, I sat down and worked on my cross stitch until I ran out of thread in the needle.

Friday I decided I would finally sew on all my daughter's cooking badges. They come as iron ons, but they don't stay on very well, so I wanted to sew them. I got down to three or four in the pile when my sewing machine died. :(

So I ended up getting up early Saturday morning before her class and ironing on the rest until I can get my machine fixed.



Monday I made my choker/collar for my Halloween costume.

I think I hate the posting part of this challenge, if I'm being honest...

Day 22

I mostly played catch-up with household stuff, and didn't do any arting or crafting.

Day 23

I put back in the section in the cross stitch that I had to frog on Monday.



Day 24

Hey, some more cross stitch!



Day 25

My local Joann store moved, and had a grand opening sale. I picked up some Halloween-themed beads (like I really needed MORE beads!) and made some Mother/Daughter earrings!



Day 26

A HUGE crafting day today!

I baked and crumb-coated a cake for the birthday party...



And then I started to deal with the costume for K. K had sworn up and down that she'd help, but hasn't wanted to for the past two weeks. I finally got out the material anyway, and she stayed with me for about 10 minutes, before deciding that this was all boring and went back to watch tv. I suppose it's typical for an 8 year old, but I was, and am still, annoyed. I got a long-sleeved shirt from last year to build the costume on, cut a few things on it, ironed on an embellishment, and cut a bunch of yellow strips of material (of which I think I am eventually going to hate dealing with).





Day 27

Unfortunately, F came home sick with a fever from her lesson on Saturday. We waited until the morning to see how she was, and she still had a fever, so we had to postpone the kids' birthday party. That gave me a bit more time to redesign K's costume in my head about a dozen times before deciding that even though the costume looks like a dress in the pictures, I do not have the required skills to make it a dress in reality. So I'm making it a top and skirt. K was pissy when I wanted to do some sizing stuff, and I almost gave up on making this for her. She also wanted to help again and but only stayed about 5 minutes when it became very clear that I wasn't going to let her run the sewing machine by herself. So I finally got the base skirt sewn, except I didn't leave a hole in the casing for elastic, and that's when I knew I needed to stop.

It's been a tough day at work. More knitting and Netflix is in the cards! Here's a progress picture. I love the yarn. It's called Copehagen and looks like it belongs in Ponyland. We're starting to run out of daytime around 5:30, so stay tuned.

Yesterday I finally got around to making some potion bottles for Halloween. I saved a couple glass food jars and bought one bottle from Dollar Tree. I found some printable labels online.

Labels on, before I "dirtied" the glass


After "dirtying" and adding potions!


On the mantle


Today I started a collar/choker for my costume, but it wasn't going to look the way I wanted, so I frogged the whole thing.

The twins' birthday was this past weekend along with their school's Fall Fest, and I was too busy and too tired to post.

Day 18

I washed all the fabric for K's costume to be...



...and made two dozen allergen-free cupcakes for the Fall Fest (not pictured)

Day 19

I did some stitching at the Fall Fest...



...And made some very quick earrings for my kids' morning birthday present (like stockings at Christmas, K said)...



...And baked a double batch of brownies (for Coffee Hour at church on Sunday), a single batch of brownies for F's cake, and a double-layer yellow cake for K's cake (not pictured).

Day 20

I frosted F's cake...



...and then I frosted K's cake...



...For my kids' birthday present from my Mom, we went to a ceramic painting place, and the kids painted "sugar" skulls, and I put another layer of paint on the black lines of my bowl...



...And then when I collapsed after dinner, I put a few more stitches into the #MadXStitchalong...



Day 21

I took the kids to the park after school and went to work some on the Stitchalong, and discovered that I'd put in an extra 2 rows WAY UP THERE, and had to frog a bunch, and then just could not face any more...

I'm still knitting! I hope to post a couple of pictures soon. One ball of yarn is used up and I'm halfway through another. I didn't realize until I counted on a calendar that I spent a solid three weeks being sick, so I tried to do as little as possible this weekend.

I watched:

• Real Detective


• Forensic Files


• Nailed It


• Mean Girls


• Riverdale


• Clueless


I had never watched Mean Girls or Clueless before. I was quite a serious teenager, but now I can enjoy these a little more now, LOL.

More #MadXStitchalong!

Day 16



Day 17



There's some noticeable progress happening!

I had planned on working on costumes today, but I didn't sleep well and even after a nap, didn't feel it would be safe to work with a sharp needle.

So I finished coloring a picture I started MONTHS ago. Not sure if it counts, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

So I forgot what month craft month is, and since I switched my main journal over to DW, I don't check LJ as much as I used to.

The good news is that I have been crafting! I attempted a sweater that didn't end well and I'm working on Halloween costumes. My daughter wants to be a zombie covered in caution tape and I'm going as a raven/crow.

Here's a pic of the beginnings of the sweater.