I’m trying to find a balance between getting stuff done around the house and crafting. I’ll forget about things I want to craft, then I’ll remember at 10p at night when I want to spend time with my husband (but I’m also torn about crafting). I have grandiose ideas, but many haven’t come to fruition.
I’m also struggling with my ADHD where I want to make something, but if I have to wait or it takes a long time then I lose interest. This has been happening with pretty much everything, not just crafting. I would have made choco chip banana nut bread the other day, but I was missing one ingredient. Now that I can get the ingredient, I don’t feel much like making it.
It’s making it very difficult to get anything accomplished.
I made some things! 2 pics are spoilered for doll cleavage
Prompt/Challenge Title: Hospital Wing Project Name & Page Link: White Top for SmartDoll Team: The Quibbler Brief Description:
I made a commissioned top at the end of last term and decided to adapt my pattern to be knitted in the round. I’m enjoying it so much that I’ve made 5 so far. (You’ll see more in this post )
Prompt/Challenge Title: Potions Dungeon Project Name & Page Link: Mushroom Stool Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I’ve made several mushroom stools for different sized dolls, but when I saw the sturdy core from a used-up roll of tape at work, I knew I had to use it to make a Nendo-sized one. This will be decor in one of my Nendo display areas.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Back of the Library Project Name & Page Link: Crocheted Jellyfish Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: My coworker saw a cool idea for a crocheted aquarium we’d like to recreate in our library this year during Summer Reading. She shared pics with me, and I started with these Jellyfish. (I’ll try to remember to get a pic when it’s all assembled, too!)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Dumbledore’s Office Project Name & Page Link: Mushroom Hat for Nendoroid Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I made myself a mushroom hat last term for Youmacon. Last week, after making the stool, I realized that nothing was stopping me from making a Nendo-sized mushroom hat! All that bright lighting for the pic has made me realize that I need to lint-roller the mushrooms! (You can see the underside of the hat in the pic above.)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom Project Name & Page Link: Crocheted Coral Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: Another element for the crocheted aquarium. I got this yarn (and the pink for the jellies) at the Dollar Tree. I love how the fuzzy yarn works for this coral!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Slytherin Common Room Project Name & Page Link: Twin tops for SmartDoll Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: More Tube tops! This time in green! These girls have different bust sizes, so the top looks different on each of them.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Hagrid’s Cabin Project Name & Page Link: Purple tops for SmartDoll Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: Well, I’m clearly loyal to this pattern now, lol. I’ve also used this purple yarn for a number of dolly projects.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Front Seat of the Ford Anglia Project Name & Page Link: PussyHat for Nendo Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I worked up a pattern for the PussyHat in mini for Nendoroid, but felt it was a bit too tight. After a minor adjustment, I was able to fly through this iteration.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Potions Dungeon Project Name & Page Link: Chonky Book Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I like to browse through the scrapbook paper section of the local creative reuse store when I’m dropping off donations. It’s rare to find two matching pieces and even rarer to find double sided sheets. So I had to save them for something special, in this case my first rounded spine book in years. I let the colors of the endpapers dictate the appearance of the rest of the project and I love how it turned out.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Flooded Corridor Project Name & Page Link: Quarto Binding Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: Dark, yes. Book, yes. I was kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel for inspiration here but I it turned out well in the end. Too bad the black bookcloth shows every bit of dust and cat-hair in a three county radius.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Restricted Section Project Name & Page Link: Quarto Binding Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I wanted something fun for the cover so I made a frame out of some art nouveau motifs from an old Dover Pictorial Archive I’d had since 2003. But the book cloth’s coating did not go well with the HTV’s adhesive so we ended up with some strange little stringy glue bits around everything. Not the look I was going for, but it photographs well.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Dumbledore’s Office Project Name & Page Link: Quarto Book Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I think everything in this book except for the glue and the endbands are old enough to vote. Especially the bookboard - I’ve been using old scraps that were discarded about 20 years ago and were ancient even then.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Moaning Myrtle’s Bathroom Project Name & Page Link: Two Folio Books Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I had the perfect papers in stash for this particular book and I am in love with how it turned out (except for my usual issues with HTV for the spine, not pictured here).
(Coming out of very long hibernation) Oooh, I just started my first ever Musselburgh! Took me a while to start as I was a bit scared of the first bit, but am now on the long part - a good travelling project!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Ford Anglia Project Name & Page Link: Lavender Quarto Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I’ve gotten much quicker at making a book over the course of last month’s binding marathon, so this one came together pretty swiftly. Also, this is super pastel in person and way outside my usual biblio-aesthetic.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Slytherin Common Room Project Name & Page Link: Two Legal Quartos Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: This book is all from stash but uses some of the oldest papers in my stash (sometime before 2010) and the newest supply (the bookboard was added to stash in December).
Prompt/Challenge Title: Back of the Library Project Name & Page Link: Three Piece Bradel Binding Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I wasn’t planning on casing in a book this weekend but somehow it happened. I was seeing three piece bindings all over instagram at the beginning of the year, but when I finally decided to make one of my own I’d removed all the social media apps from my phone for lent and I was struggling to find a tutorial. I ended up reverse engineering based on vague memories. And it worked pretty well!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Back of the Library Project Name & Page Link:Floral Peasant-Style Maxi Dress Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I love watching sewing vlogs and shirred fabric has come up a few times. When I saw some at JoAnn’s in cute prints, I picked up a couple yards. This dress is a Frankenstein-like experiment, but I love it and can’t wait for warmer weather.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Dumbledore’s Office Project Name & Page Link:Blue Halter Sundress Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: The skirt of this cotton sundress is tiers of circles, each one bigger than the last - the hem is ten feet around! I may become a whirling Dervish, if I’m not careful.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Chamber of Secrets Project Name & Page Link: Two Doll Dresses Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description: I started the skirts for these dresses back in January then shoved them in a drawer and forgot about them. I needed to whip up a pair of matching dresses quickly so I finally dug them out and was disappointed to find I wasn’t as far along as I’d hoped. But they still came together relatively quickly.
Prompt/Challenge Title:Flooded Corridor Hagrid’s Cabin Project Name & Page Link: Monochrome Book Team: Daily Prophet Brief Description:I intended this book to be entirely black, white, and gray (although some red snuck in on the endbands) Making a book requires lots of pressure - pressing the air out of the signatures after they’re folded, clamping everything tight to glue the spine, banging it with a hammer to round things out, and pressing out wrinkles while the case is drying.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Crafter’s Choice #1 Project Name & Page Link: Birthday Card & Cat Bookmarks Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I made a birthday card & some bookmarks to put inside! All of the cats are based on pictures I’ve taken over the years.
Prompt/Challenge Title: Front Seat of the Ford Anglia Project Name & Page Link: Striped Crochet Hats Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: These hats were quick to work on, especially once I had the pattern memorized!
Prompt/Challenge Title: Hagrid’s Cabin Project Name & Page Link:School of Fish Hats Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I love making these fish hats with this yarn! I had a bunch of it, so I made a bunch of hats! (pattern, Ravelry link)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Molly’s Housecraft Challenge: Scrap Busting Project Name & Page Link: Ripple Baskets Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I had scraps of yarn left over from making fish hats & striped hats, so I made some baskets! (pattern link)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Potions Dungeon Project Name & Page Link: Cotton Potholders Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: Sometimes when I go to yarn group, I come home with more yarn than I left with! Someone gave me some cotton yarn, so I made potholders. (pattern link)
Prompt/Challenge Title: Slytherin Common Room Project Name & Page Link: Green Baby Blanket Team: The Quibbler Brief Description: I made a green blanket for my cousin’s new baby! No pattern used - it’s just corner-to-corner crochet.
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