October is National Craft-Making Month!

I cast on and knitted 11 rows on a new premie hat (for charity):




I hadn't expected to do anything else, but I ended up watching a comedy thing with the other parents, and decided to knit while I listened, and knitted the 15 popcorn stitches that I needed for the last head fern of the axolotl toy I am making:

My knee is still *very* unhappy, and that is impacting my life severely. I'm currently searching out an orthopedist for a second opinion, since the first opinion isn't working out so well. I'm still crafting 'most every day. but how much gets done (or even what, sometimes) is determined by spoons available. Posting is still the hardest part, because I've been really tired at the end of the day, and it definitely is the part of this process that feels like the most work.

Day 17

I finished the headband that I started on Sunday



Day 18

Tuesday was a really rough day, and all I could find enough spoons to do was two nose wires for face coverings.



Day 19

I spent time with my stitch-in group and got a bunch more Xs in the same color as Saturday completed!

It's been a busy, painful week...

Day 10

The kids had the day off from school, so we went to visit my mom at the ceramic painting place. She had Day of the Dead skull plates for them to paint. I did the easiest painting on a tray ever, which was a marble paint. To do marble painting, you spread some shaving cream on aluminum foil, drop your paint on it, artistically, of course, then run the end of a paintbrush through the paint, horizontally and vertically, and then turn the whole thing over top of the tray. Lift off the foil and wait a few minutes, then rinse off the shaving cream and let dry. It's going to take me at least three times longer to conventionally paint the back. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures.

While my kids finished their painting, I loom-knitted 50 rows on a headband.



Day 11

I got the news that F was REALLY short on face coverings, so making more became a priority. I got a a bunch of sets of insides cut, as well as a lot of strips for earloops.




Day 12

I attended my usual Wednesday stitch-in and got quite a bit done on my 2019 Mystery SaL.



After the stitch-in, I cut a whackload of outsides for face coverings.



Day 13

Day 13 started out with getting my COVID-19 Bivalent vaccine booster AND my flu vaccine. Afterward, I did my monthly Costco run, and somehow, managed to stress my knee significantly. OW. Once I had lunch and got settled with a cold pack for my knee, I threaded my lot of cut out earloop strips through beads. (Looking at them today, I realise that some of them are too short, and will have to be redone, ooops.)



Day 14

I spent Day 14 in a dozy haze (pretty typical for me post-COVID vaccine, but at least I didn't have a fever this time!), and in a lot of knee pain (I'm on crutch again) so I didn't craft anything, because it would have come out wrong!

I got another face covering finished!



And I finished F's ear warmer!

I spent a lot of day 4 shopping and cooking for a birthday dinner! My slow cooker, rice cooker, stovetop, and oven were ALL in play!

I baked a berry cobbler for the birthday dessert, but I forgot to take a picture before it got cut. This is all that was left!



And I managed 4 more rows on the ear warmer...

I am your worldly-burdened moderator, LadyThmpr (I don't use my real name in social media). I'm a domestic Goddess and SAHM to twin girls almost 11. For crafting, I mostly bead, cross stitch, loom knit, and bake, with occasional forays into latch hook, sewing, ceramic painting, and mixed-media.

I plan to work a bunch on a large mystery stitch-a-long project that I started in 2019, that I'm not quite half done with, continue loom knitting headbands/ear warmers to finish off a skein of yarn, wash a bunch of second-hand yarn, and perhaps tackle that bags of WIPs I unearthed when I finally finished unpacking my craft stuff.

Day 1!

I'm still working on the cross stitch that you saw me working on for last year's challenge; I've gotten quite a bit done (for me) in the 11 months since my last post. The first pic is what I had done up through yesterday, and the second picture is what I did today.



Since last year, I've taken up loom knitting (like I needed another hobby) and right now, I'm knitting headbands (my solution to a "my hair won't do ANYTHING!") and ear warmers. The first picture is what I did yesterday (almost finished, it needed 4 more rows and to be stitched together), and the finishing up that I did today.