Do you want to challenge yourself and boost your creativity or output? Need motivation to work on a long project, or finish ones that are almost done? Want to feel the satisfaction of having Done A Thing today?
Join us in February as we try to get crafty with it for 29 days in a row!
What counts as your thing for the day? That’s up to you! Some people set a time requirement for themselves, like 15 or 30 minutes of work, but there are no official rules. Your thing could be a finished object, or it could be just working a bit on a larger project. Making food counts too!
We encourage sharing pictures of what you did each day. If you’re the list making type, you may make a post that you edit as you go to see all your things at once. But make sure you still post a new reply to the thread - it’s easy to miss an edit if it’s buried way upthread. And we want to see and encourage eachother!
If you’d like your tracking post linked, let me know and I will list them here.
I love this craft-along & so hope I can manage another year of it even though I’ve started a full time job. Maybe some days might just be tidying up or addressing envelops but I’ll make the best effort I can to be crafty every day!
I’m in, I tried to do it for January and I reckon I was about 70/80% successful. Which massively increased my creative output.
I’m not sure what would be on my list, but I’m in a big patchwork vein at the moment. So some of that, I also need to make myself a steampunk outfit, finish a renaissance outfit, do things with the mountain of pretty papers I have and of course there’s always meal prepping
I’m kind of tempted to try doing a drawing/painting every day for the month. I’m pretty terrible at doing daily things like keeping a journal etc. - too easily distracted - but this thread could be good encouragement … hmmmm…
So yes, I’m on for this. But I’ve no list. I’m keeping track in a tiny little calendar. And I’m already considering how to visualize it. I was not surprised by which topics showed up repeatedly, as knitting a wearable takes considerably longer than a stamp carving project (days vs hours). With Feb. coming, I’m also considering monitoring time? But just as a general time value, because that would be fun to visualize (trended graph), but don’t want to make it so onerous I stop making.
Tentatively claiming a spot here in hopes it will obligate me to follow through. I’ll probably focus on just working on something each day rather than having set finishing goals.
@JoyfulClover I am keeping track with the everyday app. It’s a free habit tracker where you can set reminders. You click in to mark something as done. It is a nice little app, plain and simple.
@WileESongDog - yes Leap Year Feb is doable! And the one day I missed, I had been going all.day. And I sat there and thought…I could knit just one line. Or I could go to bed.
I am so tempted by this … I’ll have to look at my want-to-do list tonight and figure out the feasibility, since I’m pretty sure my brain would interpret “make something” as “finish something” so I need to see if I can get enough smaller projects lined up to have a shot at doing that 29 days in a row.
I think this is a good time and place to start a multi-piece project I’ve had in mind. I won’t post daily, because I am relying on the scanner at my office for the imaging, but I will do a little something daily and share several days at a time.
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I’ve already got a list in the 50 project thread, so I’m not going to make one here, but I cannot wait for February to start! My fingers are itching to know the stitchalong theme!
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