Thanks!
It’s Lion Brand Icecream “Big Scoop” in mint
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@AIMR that is so exciting! How cool for you, & for them too. They are very lucky to have found you.
@AntBee that’s so pretty, I love that green gradient with the white.
I have some details to add to the foam board drawers to finish them. I’d like to sew today but first have to brace the table top. Last time I tried drilling concrete screws into the cinder block wall I just broke a bunch! Drr… gotta figure that out.
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They want to highlight some of the things I made…they have no idea…I really don’t know what the community would be interested in. I know we have a very diverse neighborhood and readership. Any ideas what I should highlight? UGH…now I am getting anxious.
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I love your charity knitting!
Also how you warm up a themed guest room with such sweet personalized touches (beach theme would be a nice visual vacay right now, plus an explanation/reintroduction for you back to the ‘hood)
Things made for pet comfort & entertainment.
The sweet personal gifts you create for family & friends.
You don’t love cooking but you contribute your special skills to the kitchen with things like bowl cosies, storage/organization, decor, seasonal things.
I think it’s nice to lead with an intensive project or 2, like a quilt, garment, fancy purse… something that took lots of time & skill. Then engage the curious with accessible projects they could do too, something smaller for the novice or busy person.
Trust the interviewer/writer, just be yourself. You are so awesome!
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Thanks! 
Since the magazine seems to like to focus on the diversity of our neighborhood, I think I will do my Japanese rice bags and maybe some sashiko stitching. Also, simple water color floral notecards.
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Wow–she just called and now she also wants to do a feature of me and Jim in the April issue with us on the cover! A “meet your neighbors” introduction. She wants to send her photographer over in a few weeks. That escalated quickly from a small piece in March…
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Oooh, now we know a celebrity!!
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It means I am going to have to clean my crafting room for the pictures! Better start now…they are coming February 15th!
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First project of 2026 done and surprising no one it’s a doll dress. I usually try to batch these but this was a late holiday request so there’s nothing to go with it.
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@AIMR that are some amazing and exciting news! I think the projects you picked are great for a large community.
Will it be available online? I would love to read it.
@Trillian that dress looks amazing and so tiny! What kind of doll will it fit?
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Crossing these tasks off the list! Pretty challenging getting brackets into cinder blocks to stabilize the sewing surface so it doesn’t tip machines onto the floor 
Put together coat hooks on barn boards that were in the shed.
Hanging this mirror was emotionally fraught. My dad made the frame out of wood from a farm he lived on when my siblings were growing up. I helped him design it, the corner cut outs were my idea. He was a glass artist specializing in hand bevels, this frame is the sister of a beautiful piece he made for me.
I had a mirror inset added & when we finally unwrapped the bubble wrap, surprised & disappointed they didn’t add anything to protect the back of the glass!
Thankfully I had just enough thick felt to cut a large enough shape. It’s held in precariously but that won’t matter now that it’s hung up.
Do these counts as projects though…?
ETA installed motion sensor lights and a dry erase board inside the pantry.
Also (not shown) a fire blanket by the stove. I’m feeling good about today 
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So cute!
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You get to count whatever you wish as a project on your project list! And count projects however you wish. I counted each batch of masks as one thing made, another member counted each mask as a thing made. Both are legitimate and accurate!
That mirror is amazing! And all your work there is looking so good!
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Those should 100% count as projects. That mirror is gorgeous and I love the coat rack.
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Count ‘em.
I was gifted these yarns for Christmas and need to find a pattern/use for them. That’s always hard for me.
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10 skeins in total is enough for lots of things. Are these colours you would wear?
What I sometimes do is look up yarns on Ravelry to see what other people made from them.
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There is a lot of it, not sure if it is something I would wear necessarily. Maybe Kidlet. I also don’t know this yarn source- does anyone recognize it? It doesn’t give any length metrics- no yardage, no meters. It does give its weight in grams so I’m not entirely certain how much of it I have as far as to plot a project efficiently. I appreciate that the gift giver thought of my hobby and chose something that is always fun to look at in the store – yarn – But it’s sometimes hard to give someone a supply like that without a particular pattern that it went with because then sometimes the person lives with it for the rest of their lives. Lol.
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The yarn is from Temu. From what I have read and seen, the reviews are mixed depending on what items you want to make from the yarn. I would probably stick to utilitarian things like maybe a blanket or something for a child that they can wear and outgrow, etc. I would guess that is is either a DK or light worsted.
I think one of your stripey crochet blankets would be lovely in those two colors! Maybe a larger size of the doll blanket you just made! That was a pretty pattern!
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Thank you for this info/advice that’s really helpful. I’ll put it in the yarn cabinet for now and go back to my already started project for now.
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