What kind of crafting projects are you working on?
Magic Claims, grumble, grumble, grumble.
Things I have made recently: a sweater/T-shirt for Kid 2. I don’t have a picture of it finished, but it is. Here is in progress picture.
I wanted a very simple pattern, like idiot proof, because my brain was very fried at the time. This is Flax Light by tincanknits.
I also made a Perrito Sweater. The sweater was redone 3 times to size it down and it is still too big. Perrito now wears a sock, and the sweater will have to wait until he grows into it. I might try one more time, but he is ridiculously tiny, so getting the sweater over his head while making it still fit him is a bit problematic.
Mostly I’ve been cross stitching. I got myself into this pattern because it had bright colors and I’m trying my best to stitch myself out of it.
My pattern app assures me it’s almost 36.6% done, but I think it’s delusional. The little fox is a needle minder. It’s a magnet that keeps the needle safe and put up instead of being lost on the floor somewhere and puncturing feet and paws.
I am grimly determined to finish this one, but I also want to either knit or crochet a cowl or an infinity scarf of some sort. This winter showed me that I’m lacking in the cowl department. Specifically I need something to wear during that roughly 2 weeks of cold days sprinkled through out the winter season so I can go get the mail and get wood with Gordon.
Shawls don’t work that well as cowls because they keep unwinding and scarves are too long and get in the way. I managed to pinch my scarf between the logs when carrying wood, then in an effort to pull it out, hit myself with a log, and ended up with a bruise that prompted my gynecologist to gently ask if everything was alright at home during the breast exam.
So a cowl or infinity scarf to warm my neck, something wide enough so I can pull it over my head and it can double as a hat or hood or something.
The other sort of craft project is that I learned to do my nails. My nails kind of thinned out over the years despite only occasional manicures. I’m trying to reinforce them a bit. At first I did gel, but then I read that apparently UV lamps might be causing skin cancer. So I decided to alternate gel with something else, and that something turned out to be dip powder. It has taken me awhile to learn to apply it and this picture shows it as the nails are beginning to grow out, but I’m satisfied with it.
I’m using Saviland 29Pcs Dip Powder Nail Kit, which I bought on Amazon. As always, there are no affiliate links in this post. I suggest watching some Youtube videos if you are trying it for the first time because thick application will make them pop off after a day or two.
The other craft project that I keep trying to get to is a journal. I had this idea of making a story journal with pages devoted to different story ideas. I bought cute stickers and washi tape and … 2 years have gone by. Still no journal. One day.
I like those nails. I have not seen nail powder before.
I mostly use nail stickers, because they take less than 10 minutes to apply, strengthen my nails, and are easy to change when the mood strikes.
I am working on puttying and painting the 16 windows in our dining room, as well as trying to put in a garden. Gophers and I have disagreements as to how the growth of my plants should progress.
I have a pattern for a fabric activity book which I really want to make for each of my children, for their children. I have not started on them yet.
needle-felting! stabbing wool is therapeutic.
I’m working on crocheting a large dragon for my 5yo. Just finished attaching the back legs to the body. Hubby and I are sad because we’ve been using said torso as a lumbar pillow on the couch and now we’ll have to buy an actual pillow or wait 10 months for me to get around to making one
Love the Flax pattern. It is on my to-do list. I am also into making a temperature scarf for 2023. Fun so far.
Looking forward to whichever series has the next installment. I enjoy them all. ❤️
Love the colors on the T.
I Knit and I found the perfect pattern for yarn I have only to find our the author pulled ALL her hat patterns from Ravelry and the book they are in is out of print! So frustrating, she has a blog and may bring back the patterns from time to time but why! Just keep them up. I want to make this hat and it is driving me nuts . LOL
My nails used to chip, split, & break. I discovered Nature’s Bounty brand “Hair, Skin, & Nails” strawberry gummies. I take 3 every morning, I now have to trim my nails! They don’t chip, break, or split anymore! The bottles come in 2 sizes, 70 & ~280. The bigger one doesn’t stick together in a mass!
A faster solution to the neck warming problem might be a wool hood that you sew. I made one back when I belonged to the SCA (playing midieval like some folks play Civil War or colonial times)
Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the post.
Re the gynecologist visit. Been there, done that except I had been kicked by a Great Dane I was retraining for a toe mail trim.
I prefer cowls too. Barney likes to eat scarfs and gloves. Lunatic bovine.
Yay for crafting – and finishing! I decided that I MUST finish (or frog) all my wips this year. Not that there are too many – so far I have finished three and there are only five left. One will definitely get frogged; I have restarted it (shawl) three times over the years but still keep messing up the lace stitch count so I will use the yarn for something. I don’t really use shawls much anyway. The Nightshift, however, will get frogged and restarted on a larger needle size; love the yarn (Noro), the colors, and learning the new-to-me i-cord edging, etc. This will be finished.
If you get bored, apparently asking ChatGPT for patterns is a thing. The photos of the results made my day!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/26/chatgpt-generated-crochet-pattern-results
Im a big cross stitcher and I love your fabric, where do you like to get yours from? Also I have never used a pattern app, jus printed pages and a highlighter, but I keep hearing about them. Do you recommend trying it out?