October is National Craft-Making Month!

Hello! I am your very exhausted moderator, and I am shamelessly mostly recycling my intro message from previous years:

I'm a Domestic Goddess (if you have to manage 5 different diets and preferences and still manage to eat mostly the same meal, you ARE a goddess!), and parent to nearly 13-year-old-twins. I've been dealing with an as-yet-undiagnosed fatigue illness for the past 18 months. In the past I've done a lot of beading and cross stitch, but the illness makes that harder these days and I can only do them in short bursts. What I do most lately is rescue second hand yarn, wash it, wind it up, and make things with it, most recently an uncounted number of loom-knitted baby hats for an NP organization and some loom-knitted axolotls. Latch hook rugs also work for me wonderfully when my brain doesn't work fully. I'm also currently trying to get back into stitching; however, that's probably not going to be my focus.

About the only project I'd really like to get done for nacramamo is the refurbishing of my autumn door wreath. I made it some time ago, and it got left on the door for the entire last year, so it's looking really sad right now. Other things will get done as I have energy, but you're likely to see more yarn refurbishing and loom knitting than anything else.

Hey all!

One week to go before NaCraMaMo! As a reminder, October is National Craft Making Month. The challenge is to craft every day during October!

Are you planning to participate? Do you have a plan, or are you going to wing it?

I made some crafting goals for 2023, and I'm going to work on some of those - primarily try to get some WIPs finished, continue creating baby hats, and maybe, if I get enough energy, get my craft storage put together (I've been recovering from injury, followed by illness during this year, so my energy level is pretty low).

Please introduce yourself, and let us know what we might see from you!

Holy moly, I thought it was STILL March!!!

I've not created much this year. Honestly, it's been a year of just getting through it. However, I think I'm still going to do the challenge anyway.

Come join me in any way that the challenge makes sense to you.

Please post an introduction, and let us know what you might work on.

I very much forgot to get the rah-rah going on in here for National Craft Making Month...

Here I am! And hopefully YOU will join me!

Let's craft every day in October and then post a picture every day of our progress!

If you decide to join me in this October challenge, please post an introduction - who you are, what crafting you like to do, and what crafting you think you'll do this October.

If you've been here before, not much about me has changed, except I, and my children, keep getting older!

My projects for this year's NaCraMaMo will be a stichalong from MadXStitcher that I am already weeks behind on (it really requires stitching at least 150 stitches a day, and most days, I'm good for about 50), and making the Lolirock Iris Princess costume for one of my girls for Halloween . I have a whackload of UFOs that I might touch on, and I'm still trying to get my craft room/office organized.

I'm looking forward to seeing all your lovely art and craft work!