Thanks to @AcadianDriftwood for the inspiration for this craftalong and the language below.
Let’s challenge ourselves to make something every day for the month of February! This craftalong is a place to share our motivation, progress, links, finished objects, and failures too, as we work our way through the month.
What counts as a Thing for the day? That’s entirely up to you! Maybe you want to finish something small, or just work for 20 minutes on a larger project. Whatever you feel is an act of creation, that’s what we’re going for.
We encourage sharing pictures of what you did each day. If you’re the list making type, you may use your first post on this thread to edit as you go to see all your things at once. But make sure you still post a new reply to the thread - it’s easy to miss an edit if it’s buried way upthread. And we want to see and encourage each other!
Thank you so much for doing this. I have been struggling hard with balance this winter and have done next to zero creative endeavoring. I appreciate this warm and cozy space of encouragement- it gently pushes the craft supplies towards me with daily nudges as everyone pops in to share what they’ve been up to.
Happy crafting, everyone!
Feb 6 Today’s activity was going to the thrift shop at lunch to find fabric for more little dollies. This is two pillowcases and a shirt, probably enough for 800 dolls.
Feb 7 The furthest I’m going to get today is laundering those fabrics.
Feb 8 First day I’ve had with Rob since last weekend! We did allthethings together for our Saturday date day; picked up new-to-us dining chairs, Punjabi Mart for interesting groceries, thrift shop donation & shopping, coffee & pizza out, all 4 floors of the antique mall - fun! Then I cooked a veg-positive dinner, cleaned up, & now I’m folding laundry, whew. Maybe ms dolly will get a dress tonight, we’ll see. Hand sewing is difficult in nighttime lighting.
Feb 9 organized the pantry & fridge, cooked a bunch of stuff. Busy Sunday.
Feb 10 Another busy work day followed by cooking & cleaning
Picked up a couch, fed my helper dinner, cleaned up, now I’m pooped.
A lot of cooking happened & a few days of writing cards. Now I gotta pack for a trip!
Oh, ~$&%^! This starts tomorrow! I will give it a try, but may not be able to come up with something to take on my trip the 2nd week of Feb. I will reserve this spot, anyway.
I worked on some sort of elaborate tags for gifts I’m taking along on a little trip I’m taking later this month.
5 Put away Sizzix stuff, swept up paper bits.
6 More tidying of the craft space.
7 Put away my Cricut, wrote a sentiment inside a card.
8 Made notes for anticipated AZ travel scrapbook
9 Visiting with cousins, didn’t do a dang thing
10 Scrapbook… scrapped. Didn’t take pics, etc. No regrets.
11 Here’s to trying this craftalong again next year!
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I’m in, except my thinging will mostly involve cleaning up the absolute fall-out zone that is my craft space . I’m hoping the accountability and marathon-vs-sprint mentality of the craftalong will keep me chipping away at it. Don’t expect pictures .
Pondering “small win” categories for today to get the party started over here. I’m feeling so blah, uncreative, and overwhelmed in other life categories this is going to take some thinking.
Maybe a crochet coaster or icecream pint holder. We’ll see.
I really enjoyed following along with your day! The similarities to my own day made me smile (there are no skulls involved, but there will be machine embroidery), right down to going to the computer to check on a design, only to be instantly distracted - that’s my every day .
I’m curious about The New Permian Extinction. I hope you’ll post pics!
I will probably be working on this sweater a little bit every day in Feb. Not very exciting for daily tracking, but will be very exciting when I’m finished!
Finished burying threads - Cannot find where I stored my quilt labels. Pulled the house apart. Still cannot find them - Will need to proceed and attach it posthumously.
My thing for today was spending the last few hours iterating on this standing travel drawing setup. It’s not much to look at but I tried so many different configurations and I think this will work for my needs. My husband is also currently making me a little shelf to hold a couple supplies while I’m drawing.
. I’m hoping the accountability and marathon-vs-sprint mentality of the craftalong will keep me chipping away at it. Don’t expect pictures 
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