October is National Craft-Making Month!

Day 8 was a busy and tiring day, and all I managed was 5 rows on a new baby hat.


[ID: A purple round knitting loom knitted with 5 rows of pink yarn. End ID]

Day 9 was also a grumpy and listless day; I did attend my online stitch-in outside, where I got some fresh, somewhat brisk air, and wound and tied 6 skeins of yarn for washing.


[ID: 6 skeins of yarn of various colors and weights tied up for washing. End ID]

A little is better than nothing...

I don't feel like I did an awful lot this past weekend, but my knee still hurts and it's throwing off all my muscles and I was just hurty and exhausted by the end of the day, and thus no posting...

Day 8

I spent a couple of hours with my stitch-in group and got some more done on my mystery SaL from 2019!



Day 9

I started and FINISHED loom-knitting an entire headband

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).

The real challenge is getting the pics posted.

I didn't get as much time as I hoped, so I did not finish on day 8.



Nor did I finish on day 9. I thought really hard about doing so, but it was already 22:30, which is 30 minutes past getting-ready-for-bed time, and I still had to make lunches. Today, for sure (I think)!

(I thought I had posted this last night, but I guess something went wrong...)

My kids had the day off school, so my mom invited us over to her house for a crafting day. She had gotten some balsa skull "birdhouses" and Halloween ornaments for the girls to paint, and haunted gingerbread houses for them to decorate. I had managed to forget to bring the kiwi, but she had some extra ornaments, and she and I painted some too! Here are the ones I painted:



While the kids decorated the haunted houses (which I didn't really want to be near anyway), I went to the nearby Michael's craft store to look around, which is nearly impossible with the littles in tow. While I was looking in the embroidery section, which to my eyes is getting more and more sparse, I spied some of the "large" handled latch hook tools that I have been looking for for at least a year! I used to have several of those, but I lost one and another broke, and the narrow handled tools just make my arm hurt. They had 5; I tried to not be too greedy and took 4. :) They weren't badly priced AND I got a 20% discount!

When we got home, the kids still had energy to burn so we were off to the local park. I snagged the kiwi, and worked in a few stitches. I am beginning to believe that this is going involved a lot of confetti stitches...