4-2-1

I'm not keeping to my daily blog post.  I'm also not keeping to my plan to create every day.  And that is the subject of the journal page I just made.

1-2-1

I think this is called a scrumble.  Something like that.  I'd gotten a book that showed how to mix knitting and crochet in a freeform manner and I checked out a website for one of the authors.  This is not a brand new book and it seems the author's followers haven't done any blogging about work in two or three years, but the idea is interesting.  Probably not something I'm going to dive into for a month, but I gave it a try.  Probably too open-ended for my style of crafting.  What do you think?

1-1-31

I've been too busy at work to do...anything else, it seems.  However, I managed to get the shrug finished.  So month two will start tomorrow.

1-1-27

I haven't really been creating anything much.  Last week I worked entirely too many hours and they were very hard hours, so I still feel entirely drained even this late on Sunday night.  I can't keep this up much longer.
Anyway, I did manage to make a page for my Psalm journal.  Last night, I think.  Today I frogged 2/3 of the black shrug I've been crocheting and got back on track with the help of a cheat sheet on the edges and what to do when turning.  You certainly don't need to see another photo of that project, so here's the journal page.

1-1-22

Despite having a dreadful day at work, I managed to do two rows on my crocheted shrug at lunchtime.  And just now, after a 13-hour workday, I managed to put on quite a few more rows.

1-1-21

So I didn't really have much time after a 12-hour plus workday last night to create much, but I did get my new journaling bible and started marking the reading I'm at in John.

1-1-20

While it seems like I didn't do any crafts yesterday, it is an illusion.  I simply forgot to post what I was working on.  I'd gotten two glittery black yarns on sale and had started making a shrug with the glittery-ier one.  The pattern was tough, I don't love crochet and the width was too narrow.  I ended up frogging it and then, because I couldn't come up with anything better to do, I started again with a slightly different pattern and a longer chain.  Voila.

1-1-19

I need a little something to wear with my little black dresses.  There was interesting glittery black yarn on sale at Michaels.  I got two kinds.  This is my first attempt at a shrug.  Too small.  And I still like knitting better than crochet.  Gonna frog this shortly.

1-1-18

I've wanted to try art journaling for a while but was held back by two things.  First, it is daunting to create something from nothing at all-that blank page staring at you.  Second, I have nothing profound to say and so the idea of decorating my lame words seemed... stupid.  Then the solution dawned on me.  What are the best written words ever???  And of the Bible, the Psalms are the most personal and emotional, so that's where I started.  I recently came across Psalm 119 and despite the cute acrostic-ness, it is a very profound set of words.  I debated a while over which translation to use and settled on The Message, at least for now.  The most "regular language" version I have.  I don't think I would recommend it for anyone's only Bible, but I picked it up cheap at Goodwill and for the Psalms, in my "art journal", I think the language is right.

1-1-17

I know-I said I was going to set aside the grey grannies for a while, but I didn't have much time after rehearsal tonight to start something new, so I got to thinking about them.  I thought about using the flat braid join in a slightly different way and tested it out on my smallest square.  Using white.  Two things I don't like about it.  The white is actually too bright when I'd hoped it would be unobtrusive.  Second, the 3-chain is too long and will leave too much open space for the way I'm planning to join them.  See for yourself...

1-1-16

I'm stuck.  I don't know if I want to do any more on this afghan, either now or ever.  I can't figure out how to join these.  Neat rows? Big aisles between? Funky offsetting?  I can't even decide on the finished item.  Lap quilt? Wall hanging?  Wheelchair afghan?
Grrrrr....