October is National Craft-Making Month!

Day 24

I was very tired after having done a school tour; I finally got 15 rows on a new baby hat knitted while watching the new season of Jurassic Park: Chaos Theory


[ID: A purple knitting loom with 15 rows of knitted pink yarn. End ID]

Day 25

I spent a decent chunk of time crafting order in my upstairs crafting area by clearing, organizing, finding storage for (and cleaning said storage), moving to other rooms, and rearranging the crafting things around my living room chair, and also sweeping the area THREE times. It had gotten TOO chaotic, and I decided that I didn't really need to have my yarn stash living upstairs. I was able to use a large basket no longer being used as a clothes hamper to hold all of my current crafting projects!

Before:

[ID: A messy part of my living room where I keep some crafting projects, you can barely see a wooden table and the arm of a black chair. End ID]

After:

[ID: A tidied and organized part of my living room where I keep crafting things: A wooden table the top cleared off and a shelf below to keep my knitting bowls, a black chair, and a blue basket with my current crafting projects. End ID]

AND I finished the baby hat I started on day 24!


[ID: A knitted pink baby hat. End ID]

I think I hate the posting part of this challenge, if I'm being honest...

Day 22

I mostly played catch-up with household stuff, and didn't do any arting or crafting.

Day 23

I put back in the section in the cross stitch that I had to frog on Monday.



Day 24

Hey, some more cross stitch!



Day 25

My local Joann store moved, and had a grand opening sale. I picked up some Halloween-themed beads (like I really needed MORE beads!) and made some Mother/Daughter earrings!



Day 26

A HUGE crafting day today!

I baked and crumb-coated a cake for the birthday party...



And then I started to deal with the costume for K. K had sworn up and down that she'd help, but hasn't wanted to for the past two weeks. I finally got out the material anyway, and she stayed with me for about 10 minutes, before deciding that this was all boring and went back to watch tv. I suppose it's typical for an 8 year old, but I was, and am still, annoyed. I got a long-sleeved shirt from last year to build the costume on, cut a few things on it, ironed on an embellishment, and cut a bunch of yellow strips of material (of which I think I am eventually going to hate dealing with).





Day 27

Unfortunately, F came home sick with a fever from her lesson on Saturday. We waited until the morning to see how she was, and she still had a fever, so we had to postpone the kids' birthday party. That gave me a bit more time to redesign K's costume in my head about a dozen times before deciding that even though the costume looks like a dress in the pictures, I do not have the required skills to make it a dress in reality. So I'm making it a top and skirt. K was pissy when I wanted to do some sizing stuff, and I almost gave up on making this for her. She also wanted to help again and but only stayed about 5 minutes when it became very clear that I wasn't going to let her run the sewing machine by herself. So I finally got the base skirt sewn, except I didn't leave a hole in the casing for elastic, and that's when I knew I needed to stop.