All Crafts All the Time

rafting time!

Interspersed with photos of making mantı with the grandparents! <3

I've made mantı on my own for two years in a row, and with my sister and a friend (and made it many times before with my grandmother and other relatives); this was my first time making it with my mother!

Don't laugh. I tried espresso with a lemon twist, after watching Beverly Hills Cop yet again.

It was quite tasty!

Yum!

More piña colada cookies!

Starting a new hat! In black and silver...

Birthday cake!

Sewing time!

Paper dolls

...the first hat, in blue and yellow...

Finished sewing! Four lovely cushions.

I finished the shawl I started in June!

Diorama of a forest!

Complete with dinosaurs!

Trying some more Gaillac wines, because of reading Peter May!

Earrings made by a friend's daughter.

Pins! You can keep changing what's clipped to them!

Aren't they adorable?

I can't stop wearing them!

...the original pattern is of a dragonfly...

...I'm pretending it's a moth, and the colours (blue and yellow for Barbados and black and silver for New Zealand Aotearoa) and the moths are related to the story Synchronicity by Claire Gregory...

...hat models!

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Crafts of 2022 Roundup

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!

Druid's Moon is out now!

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:

Tales from the Shaking Hand by Ryan Bevan

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

The Revenge!

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What kinds of crafts do you enjoy?