They are actually real magic!
Oh gosh everyone has been doing lots of crafting! I got kinda busy this last week. And just didnāt feel up to crafting. I did a little cross stitching on my project. And then made some dinners. But nothing fancy.
24th Feb
Used some of the twinchie backgrounds cut from the sheet of heart zentangle doodles and made some with the theme āLove isā¦ā
Oh and some more cross stitch - it is getting so close to being done
Iām finally bringing myself out of a stretch of super low creative motivation that not even wanting to show off to yāall every day could fix! I feel OK about missing days; I know Iām doing more than I would without this craftalong, so still a net win. (This is growth for me, I have perfectionist tendencies that hinder my enjoyment of things that are incomplete.)
Monday, Russian borscht to use up some storage veggies:
Tuesday, finally inspiration strikes! Snow dyeing a t-shirt!
Green and blue dye (the blue is more evident in person), concentrated towards the middle and bottom edge.
Today I worked on a swap project, so teaser photos only.
I want to give another shoutout to everyone who continues to show up for this craftalong - yāall are rockinā it! Only 4 days left!
Your snow dye came out so great!!
I worked on my first real knit project today. I was hoping to finish but the middle was a little tricky and Iām on bedtime duty tonight so it will have to wait until tomorrow.
The t-shirt did turn out great! I want to overdye some sheets and use them for projectsā¦just have to wait for the dye to arrive.
These last few days, I have been busy getting my house ready for some vistorsā¦I have been here over a year and I still have curtains to make, pictures to hang, boxes to unpack!
So my āthingā for the last few days has been making curtainsā¦
I canāt share pictures but I made two ATCs today
day 24: The yarn and I are at a stand off. Too much time together and now we annoy each other. I took some time yesterday to mindlessly wind Other Yarn and now the hat is surly and, frankly, jealous. Todayās āthingā will have to be that I moved it around a bit from the table to the sideboard a few times.
Tomorrow is a new day.
Day 25:
Anybody remember when we first started swapping boro stitched stuff? I made a bunch of pieces that ended up in stash. Iām just finishing this thing up with the biggest one I stitched & saved.
My daughter didnāt like the tail, is it better without?
It was so easy, & all from stash! I had a piece of that really stiff felt that was great for reverse appliquƩ.
It is gorgeous
I do kinda like the tail, but I actually prefer it without
I donāt like it with the tailā¦looks like a lollipop! It is just gorgeous and highlights your stitching with the neutral heart frame!
Ok easy fix. Iāll just put those pretty buttons back in the stash!
I love the little red section where you left the corner turned upā¦a hole in the heart that has mended!
That is actually completely stitched down, itās a bit of vintage bark cloth from the piano bench cover I sewed when the kids were taking lessons. Theyāve both given it up now so we gave the piano away to a neighbour. I am going to rescue that fabric to make a tote for my sister, she loves bark cloth! Iāll recover the cushion with something else for the neighbour. She took that turquoise basket off my hands and itās on the piano at their house so I know her colour schemeā¦
I love that heart! I am also on team no tail
Love the heart @Magpie! Loooove that boro stitch.
I finished my knitted project today. Itās a headband/ear warmer.
I followed the Hot Mess Headband tutorial.
Oh mercy, Abbee, that looks so good that I looked at that pattern but it just hurts my brain. I can crochet next to anything just by imagining the shape but knit messes up my head space.
Now itās made, Iām not sure I want to keep that boro heart piece. What should I do with it? Iām confused about how that raffle swap works, I could check that out. Or does one of you like enough to want it for yourself? If more than one of you like it that much, I do have another piece of boro and more of that felt. The fabric on that one is more subdued with a scrap that has a windmill printed on it. Itās cute, Iāll get a picā¦
I like it enough!!!
I love that you used bits of yarn that you used in your samplers! Now you can see the results of your hard work! Love that patternā¦just like one big cable ⦠I think I will make a few of those in cotton for the summer. Nice jobā¦and you did a great job on the edges!