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I picked up a few winter holiday cross stitch kits at my local reuse store recently, so that I might try a little stitching on my upcoming trip. I haven't been able to do cross stitch for a while, but my recent success at needlepoint gives me hope. I had my regular stitch-in today, so I got one kit set up and started, so I didn't have to begin in an airport:

[ID: The beginnings of a cross stitch project, with a small section done in turquoise thread. End ID]

I had to take a short break to pick up a kid from school, and when I got back, I decided to loom knit a little butterfly with some of the tail end of that bright pink variegated yarn:

[ID: A loom-knitted butterfly, made with hot pink yarn, variegated with yellow, blue, and purple. End ID]

It looks a little wonky to me; I suspect tension issues are involved.

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

Current Location: Sitting on the back step in the sun

yourlibrarian

For post 1 today, two necklaces with the same pendants. These were actually connector pieces but I preferred them as pendants. I decided to spotlight these because my goal was different themes and color schemes for them.

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calzephyr

I finished up this punch needle kit I found on sale at a drug store, of all places! The kit is by Kikkerland, purveyor of quirky goods and crafts. It was just the perfect take a long for my recent trip too, as all the supplies were included. I made some mistakes, had trouble telling the front from the back, but overall I would try it again! It was a few hours worth of fun considering I paid $9.99 for the kit.

It led me on a rabbit hole of punch needle supplies and how-to videos, but I resisted buying new supplies since I already had two punch needles at home :-D

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ladythmpr

I did far too much housework for the day after a drug allergy challenge AND it was TFH today, so I didn't get to the wreath until late in the day.

Before, Very sad looking!

[ID: a wreath made of small, rusted watering cans, with some sad looking floral elements incorporated between the cans. End ID]

After, back to the basic wreath, and made a mess!

[ID: a wreath of small, rusty watering cans next to the detrius of the removed floral elements. End ID]

Current Mood: hot

ladythmpr

I cast on and knitted 11 rows on a new premie hat (for charity):

I hadn't expected to do anything else, but I ended up watching a comedy thing with the other parents, and decided to knit while I listened, and knitted the 15 popcorn stitches that I needed for the last head fern of the axolotl toy I am making:

ladythmpr

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 11. For crafting, I mostly bead, cross stitch, loom knit, and bake, with occasional forays into latch hook, sewing, ceramic painting, and mixed-media.

I plan to work a bunch on a large mystery stitch-a-long project that I started in 2019, that I'm not quite half done with, continue loom knitting headbands/ear warmers to finish off a skein of yarn, wash a bunch of second-hand yarn, and perhaps tackle that bags of WIPs I unearthed when I finally finished unpacking my craft stuff.

Day 1!

I'm still working on the cross stitch that you saw me working on for last year's challenge; I've gotten quite a bit done (for me) in the 11 months since my last post. The first pic is what I had done up through yesterday, and the second picture is what I did today.

Since last year, I've taken up loom knitting (like I needed another hobby) and right now, I'm knitting headbands (my solution to a "my hair won't do ANYTHING!") and ear warmers. The first picture is what I did yesterday (almost finished, it needed 4 more rows and to be stitched together), and the finishing up that I did today.

ladythmpr

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!

lavenderspark

Hello! I've been in and out here for a few years now. I do lots of random crafts, crochet, paper crafts, painting, sewing, coloring, random odds and ends. Aside from crafting, I'm also a mom to an 11 year old girl and a cat and dog. There's a husband too, but I don't do much crafting for him lol. Life has been a bit stressful these last few months, so getting into some crafting would be good.

Today I worked on my signs for the Women's March tomorrow.
( Signs )

Going forward, I hope to finish the haunted house doll house I started last week, a crochet project I started YEARS ago, and a t-shirt quilt.

I hope everyone is doing well!

ladythmpr

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 hae been, because, of courst, 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.

And 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).

calzephyr

Here is the current status of my downstairs craft area:

zabe

My name is Elizabeth; I participated last year, but completely forgot about it this year. I do various sorts of needlework (mostly cross-stitch right now) and some beadwork (mostly peyote-stitch bracelets, but I recently branched out into a new sort of bracelet). I do a little something crafty most days; I started a full-time day job a couple of months ago, which limits my crafting time a little.

Days 1-3:
I finished this Cane-Back bracelet from the most recent Quick + Easy Beadwork. This was my first foray into non-peyote beadwork, and I mostly enjoyed it (I had some issues in the beginning and at the end). I had it everything except the three rows at the ends and the loop and toggle finished at the end of September and had the whole thing finished by the third.

Days 4-6:
This is 99 by Ink Circles, which I started in January 2017 and will finish someday. This is the sixth row (66 bottles). I was about a quarter into the shelf at the beginning of the month and did a little each day; I find the shelf tedious.

Day 6:
I realized that I ought to take advantage of everyone else being out of town and work on a Christmas card (I live with the recipient and mostly work on things in the evening family time). I'm going to see if I can get it finished by Wednesday evening. I had some of the lower right ornament finished in September and worked on it a bit more. I was probably around a third of the way through it when I realized it was misplaced, so it had to come out. I haven't redone as much of it as I had done at the beginning of the month.

zabe

I hope I'm not too late to join in; my name is Elizabeth and I live in Memphis, TN, US. I started cross-stitch several years ago after being interested in it for a while. I had tried a counted pattern several years before that, but didn't stick with it. I also do some needlepoint and blackwork. Earlier this year, I started making peyote-stitch bracelets, which I've been enjoying even though I don't wear much jewelry.

I don't have any real plans for the month's crafting; I was thinking about pulling out an old needlepoint project and trying to finish it, but I don't know what I did with it. I only have two current projects right now (one cross-stitch, one beads), so I may pull out something else unfinished to add to the rotation.

Day 1 and 4:

This is 99 by Ink Circles; on day 1, all I did was the label on the next to the last bottle and on day 4, I worked on the last bottle.

Day 2, 3, 5:

This is Stained Glass by Beadholden Designs; I hit the halfway point of the chart Monday night. I'm not going to work the whole chart, though; it's eight inches long and that's too long for a bracelet for me. I have no idea what I'm going to use as a clasp for it.

taxcha

Here are the cards I decorated & sent out for Postcrossing during day 1 -3. I used washi tapes, stickers & markers. I love to match the decorations with the picture of the card, at least the color theme. I'll try to a more mail-art-y ones once I can get to my craft supplies on the weekend.

Click on picture for larger!

DAY 1 for a book lover living in Trinidad and Tobago	DAY 2 for a foreign student currently studying in The US	DAY 3 for a bird stamp collector in The Netherlands

I blurred my message because I tend to ramble on postcards I send out.

ladythmpr

I've been working on this Mystery stitchalong. It started at the beginning of July and was supposed to be done by the middle of August. I was almost keeping up with the timeline, until at the end of the fourth week. I discovered that I had put in a three sections one stitch off. Ugh. Then I got caught up with kids' things and the beginning of school, and I finally got back to it, and finished week 4 last week.

I've slowly been working on week 5. I got this far yesterday:

And Then I discovered that two of the letters were off by one column, ugh! Today's project was to frog all the mistake and put it back in properly.

(OMG, does my phone camera take crappy low light pictures.)

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