NaCraMaMo Day 1: Spinning

[merrileemakes]

I am so here for NaCraMaMo. I do a million crafts and really rely on it to manage my mental health. At the moment I'm in the middle (or maybe just coming out the other side) of a moderate mental health wobble and using distraction and craft to get by.

On Oct 1 I started plying some Polwarth fibre I've been spinning over the last 18 months. It's taken that long because it's a big project (600g) and I've taken lots of breaks.

This is the second of 3 bobbins to ply.



I also knit on 3 different projects through the course of the afternoon and evening, but no photos

Day 2: Cross stitch progress!

[ladythmpr]

I finished the blue and started the grey (which is a large portion of this piece).



[ID: Partial cross stitch piece, with cross stitch done in blue and gray thread. End ID]

I did change to a different needle than came with the kit; it came with a 22 needle but stitching on 18 count Aida works better with a 26 (what I'm now using) or a 28 needle. Stitching is being a little slow, which I can expect after not doing any for a while, but I'm not feeling frustrated, which is great!

I also mended a shirt and a pair of shorts with some iron-on sheet (not shown), because the puppy has been very bitey on clothing of late. :/ I might do a little embroidery on the mends later.

NaCraMaMo Day 2: Tunisian Crochet Afghan Redux

[fauxklore]

I had very little crafting time today, due to Yom Kippur. After breaking the fast, I added another row (i.e. 2 rows depending if you count pulling up loops and working them off separately) of my Tunisian crochet afghan, while watching an old episode of the British game show Pointless. That's 45 minutes, which is just about enough time for me to do one row. There's no point in posting a photo, since it won't look substantially different from yesterday's.

I think that 2 rows is just over half an inch, so I really need to do more than one a day if I want to finish this month. Though I do have some zoom meetings (every other week Thursday crafting get-together, discussion group re: Brother Grimm folk tales, and book club) that would give me some extra crafting time.