Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

August temperature gauge cross stitch

Updated from here. 

Temperatures ranged from 86 to 107. Just wait until next month....

July temperature gauge cross stitch

Continued from here.

So far hottest has been 104, FYI.

 

June temperature cross stitch

 

Continued from here. Happily, June didn't make me have to redo anything. Note the streak of 100+ days at the end of the second spiral? Oyyyy. 

In other lack of news, I finally finished the raglan bit on the sweater. Yaaaaay.

May temperature cross stitch

Continued from here.

While I did not end up taking out ALL of May, I ended up taking out and redoing the last 10 days or so and having to fudge it, because SOMEHOW they were jamming up against the other spiral a bit. I can't figure out how that got off, but I made some fudge-y adjustments to line things up again once I started June. HOPEFULLY that won't bite me in the butt in the next spiral, but we'll see.

In other news: still making the world's longest hem, and grumbling that raglan sweaters SEEM like they should be easy, so why is it so damn easy to get off on them and I have to pull them out, restart, and WRITE DOWN EVERY SINGLE TIME WHAT I HAVE IN EACH SECTION?!?! 

Temperature cross stitch, April

Continued from here.

This is April, which took me like 2 months to do because it turns out that lining up the next spiral is really, really hard. Like I had to pull out April entirely and re-start it all over level of pain in the butt. (And I may have to do the same for May, darn it. That somehow got off too, hence a lack of photo now.)

As per the last few months, there's like a 40 degree temperature difference in the month, for fuck's sake, 60's (blue) to 90's (orange). 

In other news, my current projects are:

(a) the Encanto blouse, which needs more embroidery, I haven't gotten to that so much.

(b)  the Encanto skirt, now working on the vastly complicated multilayered hem, OY

(c) a Spencer (think Jane Austen cropped) jacket as my portable project.

(d) a dog sweater, which needs to be customized a bit once I get the attention of the person I'm making it for again. 

Temperature cross stitch

I bought this. I'm doing the highest temperature per day for 2022 here.

Here is January. Temperatures in the 50's are purple, blue are 60's. The one light green in there is 70! Thanks, global warming! 

February: ranging from 50's in purple to 70's in green shades.

March: ranges from 50's in purple to 80's! in dark green/yellow. Again, thanks, global warming! It gets really  crazy at the end of March in the temperature changes.

This pattern also has "stars" in it, which I did in silver for winter. 

Ravellenic Games 2020/1

This year I made the Embla Vest, with added Games challenge of only using yarn from my stash. You can tell, huh? Used about 4-5 balls of stash: the green yarn from Hawaii, blue/dark blue yarn, this "tweed" yarn they don't make any more, and two balls of Bernat Pop that I used for the ends of the stripey sleeves.

Size made: medium, but I ended up having to do some customizations:

(a) Added something like 5-6 extra rows to the sides to completely cover the Tits o' Doom, which are otherwise their usual Renaissance selves, bulging with plenty.

(b) Tapered the sleeves for a better fit. Added sleeves in the first place because it seemed sweater-y.

(c) Left off the hood because I'm never wearing it, most likely.

(d) Used leftover yarn to crochet the laces.

Hopefully it all ties together?

Also note that I finally got my hair done so it doesn't suck any more!

 

Shitpost Sampler 2021

This year's stichalong.

Sure beats last year's disappointment. "Yeah" isn't too exciting, but it looking like a palindrome and pretty pink flowers helps. 

Christmas cross stitch for Mom

I had the same problem for Christmas as I did for Mother's Day of not wanting to have to go to the post office to mail anything.

So I ordered this off Etsy and made two of the three trees. I ordered a set of two picture frames and and them mailed to her house, and then I'm going to mail her these in a regular envelope. 

Hamiltie 2

So this ended up burning up in a fire. It's a good thing I still had the yarn/supplies around to make another. Not to mention that I still had all my notes and whatnot around the house. Moral of the story: keep that stuff for future reference. And at least that time I knew what I was doing :P