I’m embellishing a denim jacket for myself. I have to hurry because my medical condition makes me gain weight (
) so I need to finish while I can still wear it.
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2/1: I put away the collage class papers from my table. It’s a token amount of tidying so I can say I did it today, but the difference is surprisingly visible.
I also finished the rest of the envelopes I started last night. (These needed a bit of measuring and the ruler was over there, so…)
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I definitely would like to participate!
I feel like my creative spirit is dwindling for some reason, so this should be a good jump start!
Since I want to branch out from my main craft (knitting), I plan to get back to my doodle notebook as well as trying my hand at watercolor and masterboards or mixed media
Thanks so much for starting this thread!
Sigh, I guess I’ll actually be starting tomorrow, since I just realized today is the first and I’m currently out of town away from craft supplies…
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… but ANYTHING can be a craft supply! Someone was in here the other day painting with coffee! And it was COOL!
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Updated my list. I swatched 29 watercolors and finished a painting.
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Yesterday, I worked on some gift tags. I expect they will be what I work on today, too…
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Oops, I was working in this too late last night to post for my Feb 1 submission, so here it is. This is a WIP from the November De-Stash-Along prompts. I had to put it in timeout for a couple of months. I’m a little more than 3/4 of the way done with it, so I feel confident I can complete it this month. (On a US twin size bed for size comparison). My version of the Summit Shawl:
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My thing for the 2nd of February is New York City cookies.
I love baking and wanted to bake a sweet treat for myself and Mr. CoffeeBeans work lunches.
The recipe is from the Bake with Brooki cookbook. My goal is to bake my way from start to finish this year.
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2/2: Cleared a respectable amount of the low-hanging trash off my table and corralled a bunch of the packaging I keep saving into a box. (That’ll all need to be dealt with at some point, but it’s off the pile.)
Actual crafting: Worked on a couple of ATCs. One’s for a swap, but this one’s for my personal pick-3 project.
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This is exactly what I need right now. I’m going to do my best to play along all month.
- Started prototype for contrast bottom tote bag. Took that table yacht in to the sewing store for a spa visit
- Spent way too long at the container store buying drawers for my embroidery thread. Which is part of the ongoing chaos which is my sewing supplies clean up. That was followed by a trek through Ikea for storage bags for the really messy fleece and minky. Which is shortly to be followed by a nap.
Worked on my fabric shelf.
4. Did a little bit more in my fabric stash
5. Got my embroidery threads under control and sorted into my new drawers.
6. Started cutting into my long held good stuff quilt pile to make my bed quilt as part of the Project Quilting challenge this week.
7. I stared at the two cut fabrics and decided I hated what I was doing so I stopped before I did more damage. I am sure I can recover. I just need to decide how. I also worked on finishing my prototype monster bag.
8. I go the greens, blues, purples and pinks on my shelf. I just have red yellow orange to go. Then I have to decide what to do with black, white, gray, polka dots, stripes, batiks and gingham. ARGHHH. The pretty plastic trays are more than I can afford at the moment so I spent some time looking for alternatives.
9 - 11. Nothing too interesting. I’m still in the everything everywhere stage of dealing with my fabric. So I do a bit each day. I’ve also been doing a bit of design work and planning for my upcoming show.
Ya, nothing much to look at, but my digitizing and sewing skills are way better than my scribbling in my sketchbook to preserve the content.
12-23 Well, this has been a bust in terms of actually completing anything. I had to teach a training seminar so I spent most of my time prepping for that. I have a few sketches in my idea book. I have been staring at fabric trying to figure out how I am going to get it back on the shelves so that it fits and I can find it. While ignoring the insistent voice in the back of my head going put it in the basement with the other weird fabrics you are ignoring. I did prep a bunch of monsters to start sewing. I ordered some fabric (GACK!!!) with a specific purpose of being hard to find monster mouths. And I made a wee small quilt.
Oh, and does it count if I added a GCB sticker to a sticker wall in a brewery?
I must say that that photo triggered a LOT of creative conversation in the family group chat.
24-28 Sadly I finished out the month not accomplishing much of anything. But I am going to try again in March even though I am getting a late start.
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I did some rows on my sweater but this was the big crafty endeavor for the day. I was just the assistant.
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Gosh, that is so pretty.
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Feb 2: I got another row from the Summit Shawl completed, but that was on a break from my cleaning chores. Today was a bedroom cleaning day. I swept up the equivalent of a small dog in lint and dog fur from the floors and under the beds. I swear we sweep the floors every other day, yet we still have an insane amount of “stuff” when we do it. 
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I haven’t finished much yet, as we just got back from an overnight trip to Sydney to see The Flaming Lips (which was fantastic). I’ve had a couple of short bursts of progress though.
One thing that inspired me for February was InCoWriMo (International Correspondence Writing Month) which is a challenge to write some sort of snail mail correspondence every day in February. I’m not sure whether I will manage to write a letter every day, but I’m going to give it a try anyway.
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these look yummy!
and apparently I need to get some sleep, bec I read the title as “Bake with Broccoli”!!
and I was wondering how that flavor combo would be in cookies…
also, @Cindy , your weaving is lovely!
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I’m in!
My list might be a tad boring this month. I’m learning to knit, in order to make a sweater for my daughter. So, the daily thing will probably be a few rows of knitting, with an occasional something else now and then. So far, it has been 3 days of knitting a bit every day, while watching some tutorials to get me to my goal.
- Knit a few rows of scarf
- Knit a few rows of scarf
- Knit a few rows of scarf
- Watched a lot of knitting videos and tried out techniques from them
- wove in some ends on the scarf and tried (unsuccessfully) to fix a zipper
- Watched more knitting videos, started on a gauge swatch
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As usual, I’m a little late, but I’d like to join in. This month is all about bookbinding but there are some other “regularly scheduled crafts” that will need to sneak in occasionally.
- 6 textblocks punched and sewn, a few rows of crochet.
- 6 sets of endpapers attached, 5 spines glued, 4 books trimmed, 3 covers roughed out
- Adventures in HTV!
- 3 books cased in
- Fixed texblocks
- Quarto case
- 2 books cased in
- Rounded a spine
- Started two more books
Day One: Books Sewn
Day Two: Something Went Wrong
Day Three: A Work In Progress
Day Four: 3 Book Night
Day Five: Resewn Textblock
Day Six: Making a Case
Day Seven: Two Books Cased In
Day Eight: Rounding!
Day Nine: Two More in the Works
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