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April 2016 Moms
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Crafty Moms Check-in 1/21
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I don't know what days we usually start these check-ins, but it's been a while since the last post on the last one, so I think it's time to start it up again!
1. What are you working on? Feel free to post photos of your WIPs or your finished products for the rest of us to drool over!
2. What would you like to accomplish this week?
3. What's the best thing in your crafting inventory (tool or supply)? Could be your favorite tool, a go-to yarn you turn to for every project, or the fabric/scrapbooking paper you have stashed waiting for that perfect project.... you tell me!
1. What are you working on? Feel free to post photos of your WIPs or your finished products for the rest of us to drool over!
2. What would you like to accomplish this week?
3. What's the best thing in your crafting inventory (tool or supply)? Could be your favorite tool, a go-to yarn you turn to for every project, or the fabric/scrapbooking paper you have stashed waiting for that perfect project.... you tell me!
Re: Crafty Moms Check-in 1/21
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2. DD is at the ILs this weekend, so we're hoping to get about everything done for the nursery Sat/Sun. It's mostly cleaning and laundry, but I'm also planning to paint a mural on one wall, so that's the big goal for Saturday so it can air out all night before DD is back Sunday night.
3. MIL got me this set of knitting needles for my birthday and I LOVE how organized and contained it is. I also bought myself a crochet hook organizer this winter and it is so nice to have everything in two (small) pouches!
2. What would you like to accomplish this week? Work is crazy, so if I get the leggings done I'll be happy!
3. What's the best thing in your crafting inventory (tool or supply)? My wood burning tool for sure! I can use it for anything and everything!!
2) I would like to find a dresser to refinish for LO in the next couple of days weeks so that I can instruct DH on exactly what he needs to do to help make it as I envision.
3) DH bought me a new sewing machine a few months ago, and it makes sewing much less tedious! I'm also dying to get my hands on a cricuit but can't justify paying full price.
Also adding the afghan I finished last week because I'm really proud of it (already posted once in the nursery thread; kick me out for being an AW if you want):
2. I would really love to finish repainting the dresser for the nursery, but it's sitting in the hall while DH slowly paints the nursery. Sigh
3. I have a bunch of light turquoise baby alpaca fingering weight yarn that is super soft and beautiful, but I have yet to find something to use it for.
Edit for bonus question: so I bought this tube of little animals that I want to make a mobile out of. Should I leave them as is or spray paint them white and gold?
2. Hoping to finish the second quadrant and start on the third by the end of the weekend. After this blanket is done, I'm making another one in the same pattern for a friend who's due 7 weeks after I am, so I'm really starting to feel the pressure to pick up the pace!
3. I love love love to knit lace, and I'm an absolute sucker for alpaca, so I've got a few skeins of Alpaca with a Twist Fino (70% alpaca, 30% silk, 100% delightful) sitting in my stash in case inspiration strikes. I've also got a lovely undyed brown fingering weight yarn that I bought at an alpaca festival a couple years back after petting the alpaca it's from. I don't know what the yardage is, and I'm not sure if I'll ever find the right project for it, but someday it'll be something lovely!
@sprocketsngadgets - It's actually much simpler than it looks! I can't seem to wrap my mind around colorwork, but this is just garter stitch stripes, and you're only working with 2 balls at a time and switching at the start of every other row. The only other skills involved are decreases (one double decrease every other row... that's the ridge you're seeing) and picking up stitches, which it looks like you're already a pro at. The trickiest part has been keeping two balls of yarn from rolling off my rapidly disappearing lap... otherwise, it's a nice, mindless knit that goes really well with Netflix.
@NOLA520 - DO IT! Knitpicks gives you a discount on the yarn if you buy it with the pattern, and they've got 4 different kits that mean you don't actually have to pick colors yourself. Totally worth it!
There is absolutely no way I could ever accomplish something like that. Damn, girl!
Sez the woman who posted the incredible superheroes blanket! Mine just tricks you into thinking it's complicated with geometry. Yours is basically crocheted rocket science.
The pattern was kind of a cheater - just a chart that you counted out the number of stitches for each color. But now maybe I'll say that I'm basically a rocket scientist...a NASA crafter
1. Finish baby niece's quilt. I'm 80% done but baby is 2 weeks old and I just couldn't get it done before.
2. Start my baby quilt.
3. I've decided recently I'm going to sew my own flannel baby wipes after buying a 12-pack online and seeing how friggin' simple they are!
Also, in awe of all you knitters! I've tried to knit so many times and it's just not for me....the counting, I just can't seem to do the counting.
I'm going to be attempting to get crafty today decorating my daughters room who will be one next week. Clearly it's time lol
Going to get canvas and wing it on something for her. Would love to do the nursery but he's bunking with my other son so not much to do
We are still in the process of painting the furniture a slate grey, my sister gave me her crib set and it was cherry wood colored.
So far I've made some pillows, a cloud mobile with glass suncatcher beads, some wall art, a bow/headband holder and painted white some branches and a ceramic owl I found. I might make a vinyl wall cling using my trusty cricut (I used that to make the wall art)
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I can't wait to hang them though.
I can't wait to hang them though.
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They turned out great! Getting the sharp angle in my "L" done was a royal pain. Mine are 12" letters and at first I worried they wouldn't be big enough, but now I'm happy that they aren't any bigger because they'd probably have made a trip out the window.