October is National Craft-Making Month!

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.

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.