Today is the last day of August and thus the official end of the FiberTudes 31 Day Fiber Challenge. The point was to do something fiber-related (and of course that is yarn/thread/paper not edible fiber!) for 20 minutes a day every day in August. I had to plead The Sick Chick Exemption* a few days so I’ve got three days left to do, but for the record, what I did was:
(*The Sick Chick Exemption: For any day of a challenge where you are too ill to sit upright for more than three hours, you can skip that day — as if it didn’t exist, since for you it didn’t! — and add the day to the end of the designated time. Please feel free to borrow this concept as needed and quote me as giving you permission 😉 )
- design for sekrit embroidered & felted laptop case
- Setting up studio & yarn stash
- crochet starting dishcloth
- design costume for the 29th (never made it, alas, maybe for Halloween!)
- yarn shopping & general Hobby Lobby raiding 🙂
- design conventioneers neck pouch thingy (sewing design)
- quilt/fabric shopping esp for SCA dresses
- research corn yarn, patterns, etc
- pick out fabrics & style for bulletin board
- organizing bead stash
- sketched bracelet designs for shrink plastic awareness styles
- design bracelet, watch crochet videos & more crocheting on dishcloth
- loom knit on afghan
- more crocheting on dishcloth, boy I am slow (hindered by kitten, as usual!)
- The Sick Chick Exemption
- The Sick Chick Exemption
- Finish washcloth, yaaay! May add trim to it later though
- play with beads, sketch more bracelet designs
- loom knit on afghan
- art supply shopping & watch band design
- start crochet ATC
- finish crochet ATC
- prep (gesso) pages for art journal
- practice single crochet, fail miserably, make Zentangle ATC instead
- more knitting on afghan (I am sick of this one now!!)
- The Sick Chick Exemption
- Start loom knitting hat
- Finish knitting hat and headband (6+ hrs)
- Loom knit armwarmers, spool knit collar and earrings (6+ hrs)
- watch quilting videos, drool muchly, learn muchly
- read up on how thread is made (research for upcoming project)
So as you can see, I still have three days to go to complete that challenge, but I do have some FO’s to show off and some nearly completed items to finish, so there may be *gasp* PICTURES on this blog in the near future. (Unless you wanna see pictures of my now 10 month old kitten, in which case I can oblige almost immediately 😉 ) Quite frankly, I am amazed at how much I got done this month, as it was fairly challenging, health-wise.
I’ll give you the final tallies after I finish my last three days! 🙂
But to the ladies of FiberTudes, I salute you and thank you for this challenge and can’t wait for the lace-along to start sometime in September! 🙂
Congratulations! You rocked the 31 days! Way to go!
Thank you! I still have three days to catch up on but since I think I’m starting another challenge tomorrow I may double-count 😉
Wow thanks for joining my September Challenge. I don’t think I would be able to do back to back challenges! Can’t wait to see what everyone does!
I’m not very good at posting my work but we’ll see how I do 🙂 I’m just trying to get in the habit of doing something every day — I hope to tackle NaNoWriMo for the first time this year so I need some daily discipline!!