October is National Craft-Making Month!

On the 11th, I didn't do anything crafty; the other people in my house came back from vacation and I got distracted.

Yesterday (day 12), I worked on 99 a tiny bit; the shelf is two rows and I'm close to finished with the first one. I just need to sit down and do it instead of letting myself be distracted by other shinier things.

On days 7-10, I worked mostly on my Christmas card; I have the ornaments finished and only have the curls and the backstitching left to do; I don't know why they have the curls so close to the fabric color (in the picture from the kit, there's more of a contrast):



On day 12 I worked on a temperature bookmark, where you do a bit for each day with a color representing the high temperature. I did most of the orange stitches yesterday; I'm into June and it was warm. I already have the color for the highest high in there even though the high for the year was in July (DMC 3705, representing 94-97). I'm tempted to do a similar one for the low temperatures. I have more information about it at the bottom of a blog post from when I started it.



This isn't really a craft, but it's something that I did one day:



I'm very tempted to start the current free project from Blackwork Journey if I have suitable fabric; it's only a little each month and wouldn't keep me away from other projects too much.

I didn't do much over the last three days; I did a few rows of beads every day, and a couple of other things on a couple of days.

I am very close to done with the beading part of this and will then have to decide how to finish it (it's Stained Glass by Beadholden Designs):



On day 6, I also finished the last bottle here on 99 by Ink Circles (30 down, 69 to go):




On day 8, I pulled out a latch hook kit called Floral D'Vine that I bought on clearance and started in 2014; I've only done two rows in the last two years. I've now done my row for this year, and might try to do a few more. I do now remember why I haven't been wanting to work on this; it's a little tedious. I do want to finish it someday.