fred_mouse (
fred_mouse) wrote2025-05-10 10:37 pm
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[100days] Craft update
It is the tenth, and thus 10% of the way through the current project. I have finished two projects, and progressed several.
Finished
- Tie dye pillow case for Youngest
- Lap quilt (assembled from pieces their mother embroidered) for
chaosmanor
Good progress
- bathroom towel rail - bought stain (not the right one, too late now), three coats of stain, found the fittings.
- door mats - tie dyed the previously torn strips; have sewn many together; started ironing. There are still as many to sew together, and I regret deciding to iron them. The ironed sections are wound into a ball that is about 15cm in diameter.
- teach myself to draw - after the first two books were a bust, Drawing for the Absolute Beginner by Carole Massey is going okay. I hate this stage of the process, and each bit of sitting and drawing is a fight with myself to just sit and enjoy, and not try and rush through it to be done, but I think it is getting easier. I don't like the drawings I'm producing, and I still haven't any clue how to take the skills and use them elsewhere, but I have hopes that that will come with time. And there are more drawing books out there, I can just keep going (or go through this one multiple times until some of it starts to feel natural).
There are some other projects that are quite close to done, and if I could just sit and watch a movie, I might get the pink/white/brown blanket done (needs the ends sewn in), and the basket of hand sewing tasks dealt with, which would be another two done.
I'm being tempted to abandon task 'get CV up to date' now that I don't need it (assuming the next bit of hoop jumping works) but ah, that would be bad. It needs to have regular attention, and I know that, I just ... hate doing it.
