October is National Craft-Making Month!

I put another two needles of gray thread into my cross stitch project, which, unfortunately, including frogging back 20 stitches and restitching, because I managed to not put in a row, even though I thought that I counted three times!


[ID: A cross stitch project in progress, in gray and turquoise thread so far. A head with round ears is taking shape. End ID]

Given this is the second big frogging that I have had to do, maybe I'm not quite ready to go back to my full cover, lots of confetti, very large project. :/

I baked bread for the first time in about 2 months!



[ID: 2 loaves of light brown bread, cross-hatched on top; one loaf has a slice cut from the end. End ID]

I also made brown sugar (note to self: the mixer blade works better than the whisk):



[ID: A steel metal mixer bowl containing brown sugar; some of the brown sugar is caught in the mixer's whisk. End ID]

I wasn't expecting to attend the Wednesday stitch-in, but GB decided he should take the kids to their doctor appointment. I didn't have the mental energy to figure out which WIP to do at stitch-in, so I darned a sock:



[ID: A close-up of a toe of a white sock, darned with light blue thread. End ID]

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 (and also on Wed) 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).