2025 February Thing-A-Day Craftalong

Painted! But I can’t share as it’s for the 4x6 swap.

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Nearly a week behind. What have I been up to? (scrolls frantically through my camera roll)

2/21 - snaps & sashes on some dresses

2/22 - two more dresses all the way through

2/23 - No pictures, but I printed and folded a book to bind. Also made what will probably be my last trip to JoAnn’s

2/24 - Two more books printed, folded, and sewn - with endpapers! (I always forget that step when it’s easy to do)

2/25 - Two small books completed!

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Feb 27:

  1. completed my four red hats I’ve been working on for most of this month.
  2. Added a small ball’s worth of yarn pieces to my ongoing scrappy crochet blanket.
  3. Working on my black Summit shawl from (yikes!) October.
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Sunday and Monday I did weaving, Tuesday we were on a road trip and nothing crafty got done I bought craft supplies to do with my grand daughter, Wednesday I was weaving and today I did weaving with my grand daughter.

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2/26 - painted!

2/27 - made banana bread and ginger muffins

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It’s the last day of February!! While I certainly didn’t craft every day this month I do have a completed sweater to show for it!

Thank you to everyone who participated this year, whether you posted once, twice, or every day. You’re all awesome! :sparkles: :heart:

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It’s fantastic! What a unique design! Your knitting is so nice and even as well…the color is a fabulous neutral!

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@Abbeeroad That is such an interesting sleeve design! Can I ask what pattern you used? Also - fantastic yarn choice - it gives a ton of visual texture.

My past few two days have been spent cleaning my craft space and rearranging furniture (to nearly the exact same layout it was a month ago. The February experiment failed.)

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Thanks guys!

@Trillian - it is the Carbeth pattern by Kate Davies. The yarn is beautiful but very heavy and stiff. I think if I were to make this sweater again I would not use this yarn.

I’m actually eyeing the Doocot sweater by the same designer as a follow up project. I have a few other things on the list first, though.

Today I painted casing in my craft space and now it’s totally finished. I managed to do something each day of this month, some days not much but a bit.

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2/26-28: A bit more tidying. I wouldn’t say it’s done, but it is so much better/less overwhelming than it was. Please hold me accountable for continuing to put things away when I’m done :laughing:.

No crafting (yet?) this evening, but the last couple of nights I’ve worked on potential pieces for the upcoming 4x6 swap.

Thanks for running this again, Abbie!

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February 28: I enjoyed the nice weather today and knit on my front porch in the afternoon. Got some more done on my black shawl.

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Feb 28 - made a base for my last 4x6 art swap piece.

I managed to do something creative 26 out of 28 days. Woot!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO COMPLETED THIS CRAFTALONG!!!

My vacation kept me from completing this Craftalong, but today after woodworking in the shop, I started a project similar to the one I did for last year’s thing-a-day, so I might try to do my own personal March version! We’ll see how it goes.

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This includes many of my thing-a-days from February - drypoint etchings for an exhibition that opens on Saturday, yay!! A printmaker friend and I have been making art about local threatened species, and these are my ones.

Thanks so much @Abbeeroad and everyone who participated :smile: I haven’t been very active on the thread because I’ve been too busy trying to get everything ready for the exhibition and then spent a lot of time framing them all this week. But I have really appreciated the inspiration in this thread!

You are all amazing!!

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I should have known better than attempting this craftalong when I would be spending about half of the month overseas on vacation and attemping a big time sort of project. so, my Thing-A-Day turned to Same-Thing-A-Day, more or less. I’m working on a sweater, learning to knit as I go.
I think I managed to get a tiny bit of crafting done every day, except maybe the day we spent at Disneyland.
So, here’s my February:

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Wow! That’s amazing progress since you’re learning as you go. I hope your daughter loves it.

Love the prints! Especially your frogs.

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That looks fantastic!

Beautiful! What an accomplishment to learn a new skill!