October is National Craft-Making Month!

I usually do a personal challenge for the weeks of November and December, but not this year. However, I am still plugging away on projects.

I got a bunch of work done on the Mystery Stitchalong.

Nov 5


Nov 11


Nov 13


Nov 16


Nov 17


I worked on this piece yesterday Nov 17; I'm working on a section that uses a DMC Light Effects thread, which is a PitA to work with, and I put in and frogged the same six stitches three times before I found some tips on how to work with this damn stuff, and finally got about a dozen stitches in. However, by then it was dark, and it's a light colored thread on white, so I'll take the picture in daylight after I've worked some more today.

On Nov 12, I went to a bead meetup, and reworked the necklace that I'm making for my Mom, and stitched some snowflake earrings from a hank that we found when we went to a bead show a couple of weeks ago.

I really, really would like to finish this before NaCraMaMo ends, but I think I would need 36 hours in a day.

Days 23 and 24



Days 25 and 26



I almost didn't do anything today, because I'm tired and it's been hotter than I like (especially for this late in October) and I'm at the coughing stage of this thrice-damned cold (I don't feel too bad otherwise, but the coughing *hurts*)and I am frantically cleaning for a party on Sunday, but I wanted to be able to say that I'm done with the green in the border (I think... so parenthetical when I'm tired!).

I find it hard to bead at home, with my kids always wanting to be in it with me, and beads being prone to scattering everywhere. Once a month, I attend a bead meetup, and I get to bead! My mom found a kit, and wanted me to make it up for her. She gave me some loose parameters and trusted me for the rest. I added some bigger glass pearls from my stash. This is what I came up with:



I showed my mom a picture, and she decided that she wanted some bee and lady bug matching earrings. So I need to take apart that first strand to get the bugs, and put it back together.

Back in May 2016, I did a 30for30crafting challenge (craft 30 minutes a day for 30 days), and as part of that challenge (which I documented on Tumblr and in LJ's nacramamo), I designed (except for the flower; that was a kit) and hooked some latch hook decor for my kids.


I went so far as to buy some canvas frames to mount them on, and then they sat. I unearthed them in the newest Great Office Unfucking. In the last week of September, I even got the biggest ones glued onto their frames.



And then they sat again, because I've been focused on the Stitchalong. They've been underfoot waiting for a chance to be finished.... and today, I finished framing the ladybug! The canvas frames I found weren't quite the right size (too large), so I found some cloth to cover up the edges.



I'm going to try and finish the other two this weekend.

I'm plugging away on the Mystery Stitchalong.

Day 8


Day 9


Day 10

I started the week 6 chart of the Mystery Steotchalong!

I stitched a bunch more teeny sections of 3-8 stitches last night while bouncing home on the bus from a birthday dinner.

Between being busier than usual and a bad pain day, about all I could manage for day two was folding and organizing a bunch of fabric scraps my mom gave me for my collages.

I was (still am) a maintainer over on nacramamo over on LJ. I have been little on LJ since their new TOS took effect. The LJ community nacramamo seems deserted. But since October is tomorrow (in my neck of the world, anyway), and I have truly loved the challenge of crafting every day in October, I decided to create a nacramamo community on DW. I might be the only poster, but we'll see how it goes.

If you decide to join me in this October challenge, please post an introduction - who you are, what crafting you like to do, and what crafting you think you'll do this October.

Please use tags! I'll try to seed the tags, but if you don't see a relevant tag, create your own.

Have fun!