aking and baking and knitting and crafts, oh my!Here's the 2021 roundup, with a few goals that I actually met.
And I don't necessarily need the playing cards for the Dark Matter: Artificial anthology (mentioned in the post), because I have cards for Druid's Moon!
I wrote eight crafting posts in 2022:
January: Crafting in 2021 roundup and some new knitting
February: Knitting a Gryffindor scarf during the Olympics (and Tom Daley!)
April: Blogging from A to Z April Challenge!
June: All the crafts: Baking, knitting, painting, sewing, picking strawberries and making bookmarks!
August: Knitting on vacation: Scarborough and Barcelona (and some Easter eggs for Druid's Moon!)
November: All the crafts, part 2: candle making, paper airplane folding, board game crafting, baking, and Lego building (featuring settings from my novels!). Plus a really good drawing tip from Nathan Pyle!
I also did some of the formatting for this book:
December: Queen Elizabeth knitting and my latest family tree of characters (now so detailed, it requires two parts!)
As for goals in 2023:
Knitting: One friend has requested a shawl; I'd like to try something fancy (before next Christmas!). I'd like to try yet another complicated Kate Davies pattern. And finish the blanket/wrap I started last year!
Baking: This has been going well, so I don't really have any particular goals in mind. Maybe to try to take more artistic photos of my results!
Photos: I have one goal (keep up with printing family photos in albums!) and two aspirations (sort out all the fan art and other artist creations I want and see what I can afford; and finish sorting all the photos on older posts on The Girdle of Melian)
Crochet and sewing: I might try to get better at these. We'll see!
The latest crafting photos:
I wrote eight crafting posts in 2022:
January: Crafting in 2021 roundup and some new knitting
February: Knitting a Gryffindor scarf during the Olympics (and Tom Daley!)
April: Blogging from A to Z April Challenge!
June: All the crafts: Baking, knitting, painting, sewing, picking strawberries and making bookmarks!
August: Knitting on vacation: Scarborough and Barcelona (and some Easter eggs for Druid's Moon!)
November: All the crafts, part 2: candle making, paper airplane folding, board game crafting, baking, and Lego building (featuring settings from my novels!). Plus a really good drawing tip from Nathan Pyle!
I also did some of the formatting for this book:
December: Queen Elizabeth knitting and my latest family tree of characters (now so detailed, it requires two parts!)
As for goals in 2023:
Knitting: One friend has requested a shawl; I'd like to try something fancy (before next Christmas!). I'd like to try yet another complicated Kate Davies pattern. And finish the blanket/wrap I started last year!
Baking: This has been going well, so I don't really have any particular goals in mind. Maybe to try to take more artistic photos of my results!
Photos: I have one goal (keep up with printing family photos in albums!) and two aspirations (sort out all the fan art and other artist creations I want and see what I can afford; and finish sorting all the photos on older posts on The Girdle of Melian)
Crochet and sewing: I might try to get better at these. We'll see!
The latest crafting photos:
Bagels from Montreal!
Ginger-nut biscuits
Recipe from Outlander Kitchen
Baking piña colada cookies!
With a helper!
Yum! Inspired by the story Piña coladas by faeeebaeee
piña coladas — an ofmd analog media / social media au pic.twitter.com/lErQRkB21V
— 🌿 lottie dottie bo-bottie 🌿 piña coladas smau 📟 (@faeeebaeee) June 19, 2022
Creations made By Thye
Christmas!
Lutins!
Puzzle!
Biscotti and other goodies made by a friend
I knit a scarf!
A Lego pirate ship
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What kinds of crafts do you enjoy?
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