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Hi group,

I probably won't be participating as much as in previous years. I'm back at the art college for my final year and it's exhausting!

But, I'll try to post here and there when I can and come back to enjoy your progress pictures.

Happy Thanksgiving to any Canadian peeps!

zabe

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.

calzephyr

LOL I will join the "Forgot about NaCraMaMo" club. September was so busy and I was certainly doing a lot of crafting. Canadian Thanksgiving is this weekend, so I'm not surprised that everything feels out of sync!

lavenderspark

I completely forgot about this last year!

I was a member on LJ, but I moved my journal here to DW back when the TOS changed. I do still follow some communities there (which is how I found this, I saw the post on LJ), but I'm mostly here.

As far as crafts go, I do random things. Crochet, sewing, random projects that I cobble together.

I recently made a Halloween wreath for my front door, though I have to fix it and rehang it.

I've been working on a crocheted baby blanket for a friend that is due in December. I'm almost finished with it.

Normally this time of year I'm making Halloween costumes for myself and my daughter, but she picked something from the store this year. :( I have no idea if I'll dress up or not, nothing has come to mind yet.

Hopefully this will help keep me motivated to craft this year! I've always enjoyed seeing everyone's crafts in the past.

zabe

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.

taxcha

Hello! I'm Natascha, I live in Indonesia. I work a full-time desk job in a small office. On my free time, I alter obsessing over online activities (fandom stuff & making graphics like icons) with offline activities like making arts & crafts with traditional media. For now, I'm on the online side most of the time. I'm in K-Pop fandom and I want to continue learning Korean for it (I took classes before but I didn't continue).

I love all kinds of arts & crafts but currently focusing on paper craft and abstract art/painting. I was active on postcrossing site, I use postcard as a tiny canvas for my mail-art and send them away! I have a crazy amount of washi tape collection and I use them to decorate my cards/notebooks/journals/whatever.

I lived in Japan for the past year and I just came back to my home country this summer. The postal system here isn't as reliable as Japan and I kind of lost my motivation for postcrossing. I plan to do one mail-art every day for this NaCraMaMo to revive my snail-mailing activities! Also my sister just came back from Korea and she bought me so many postcards, I need an excuse to start sending them out. I can send a postcard for anyone in this community if you guys don't mind sharing your RL address with me :)

lusentoj

Hey everyone, I'm that one guy from Sweden who didn't do any crafting last October! Starting tomorrow I'm moving to Japan for at least a year and won't have internet at home, and so far 80% of my Japanese friends are old people, so I'll probably be doing a lot more crafting. Thanks to moving, I've realized that "handicrafts" are just "things you do because you have to", they're not a special activity you set aside time for. For example, I can't go over the weight limit with my suitcase so I cut off the hardcovers and page margins on all my books and their weight got cut in (almost) half; now I've gotta craft myself some new covers for them or I won't even be able to tell them apart.

For this autumn, ignoring the book covers I need to make, I bought a non-electric hand-held sewing machine (which works great by the way) and plan on using it to make pillow / futon / etc covers out of secondhand-store fabric, because storebought bedsheets are expensive and not cute one bit!

As for my other interests, it's mainly languages (Esperanto, Japanese, Faroese, Chinook Jargon...) and I don't eat processed foods so I cook a lot out of necessity. Crafting-wise I like making stuff that's useful and not too hard for me to make, I'm almost blind so I get frustrated with having to "see" easily.

ladythmpr

Hi, all you challenge crafters! I'm one of your community maintainers. You can call me LadyThmpr, or LT, because I don't use my real name on my blogs. My primary hats this year are SAHM to twin almost-six-year-olds, household goddess, gluten-free baker, and a (hopefully more frequent) crafter and artist. My main crafting interests are cross stitch and beading. I live in the SF Bay area in California. I tend to binge-watch TV (SF, police procedurals, movies, Giants baseball) while doing my crafts. I read science fiction commuting to and from my kids' school and in the 10 minutes I manage to stay awake once Ive gone to bed. I'm (re)learning Spanish.

This year during NaCraMaMo, I have some jewelry sets I want to complete that I think I didn't do last year, get my website up to sell my arts and crafts, and do finishing work (wash, iron, back and frame) several cross stitch pieces and four latch hook pieces. (This looks a lot like Last year's list!) Also, I'm going to finish cleaning and reorganizing my office/craft storage room.

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