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NaKniCroMo Week 3: This or That

I skipped a few days again. I didn’t really have interesting answers for them anyway.

Day 15: Knit or Crochet?

Knit. I can and do crochet occasionally, but I like the look of knitted fabric better.

Day 16: Watch or Listen?

Well, technically it’s listen, but I’m usually listening to the tv or YouTube videos, without really watching.

Day 17: Pattern or Freehand?

Pattern. Free hand would require either too much planning or too much trial and error for me. Probably both.

Day 18: WIP Wednesday

Omg progress!

I also had an urge to cast on something more eleborate last weekend. I didn’t, but I did wind some yarn. This is promising!

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NaKniCroMo Week 2: Favorites!

Gonna do theses past few days in a batch. So:

Day 8: Favorite yarn in my stash

I love all my yarns equally.

Ok, that’s a lie. I love some more then others, obviously. But I love yarn, all yarn, and I have enough fancy and indie stuff that are really hard to choose between. Ultimately though, yarn is potential, and my favorite yarns in my stash is the one paired with a perfect project waiting to be made.

Day 9: Favorite Tool

Whichever gets the job done...? Apparently, don’t get attached to my tools. Huh.

Day 10 Favorite Finished Project

Weirdly, I think it’s this very simple NORO scarf. Complicated, “look what I can do” projects are awesome WIPs, but this is the one I keep looking at now that it’s finished. I love how the colors ended up, i love how useful it was this winter, I love how I have not a single complaint about the finished object. Things don’t often come out exectly how I hoped they would, and this absolutely did.

Day 11: WIP Wednesday!

One done. I am literally 7 rows and some ends away from a pair of socks. So why aren’t I knitting? Who even knows.

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NaKniCroMo Day 7: Crafting Assistants

Yeah, I skipped day 6. It happens.

Introducing the incomparable crafting assistant, Charlie. Known for being the least helpful a crafting assistant could possibly be. He enjoys munching on string and playing with circulars. Occasionally he might agree to to model, especially if he happens to be asleep. He is, however, a very good, very loving little monster.

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NaKniCroMo Day 5: Dang, Other People Have Hobbies

All I have is knitting, a complete inability to focus, and a switch.

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NaKniCroMo2020 Day 4: WIP Wednesday

The socks that could’ve been done are not yet done.

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NaKniCroMo2020 Day 3: Craft Corner

I am my own craft corner.

For reasons of cat (he’s munched on a project or two in the past), I keep all my projects in projects bag even at home. These travel with me from room to room, and so my craft corner is wherever I choose to park myself for the evening.

My stash has a dedicated drawer in my dresser, but has long since overflowed to every other closed storage in my bedroom. I do have vague plans for an actual craft room eventually, but for now it’s just a dusty storage room. Maybe someday.

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NaKniCroMo2020 Day 2: Share Your Goal

Can’t really commit to anything any more specific then “knit”. If I could do even a row a day, I’ll be pretty much satisfied.

Since I’ve only recently discovered the joys of plain socks knit two at a time, im gonna line up a few of those as possible things to knit, just so I won’t have to think too hard about what to do next. For now, these are:

I am really only a few rows away from finishing the rainbow socks, so I should probably do that. I was completely in love and obsessed with them for about a week before things happened and I lost the will to knit. Yarn is a beautiful Rustic Rainbow from Rock and String Creations.

After that I will probably wind the blue set and see what pretty sock they might make. It was a mystery sock club yarn from The Fibre Fox.

I doesn’t come through too well in the photo, but all of these yarns are sparkly.

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NaKniCroMo2020 Day 1: Introduce yourself

Hi all, my name is Noa, I am a 31 years old, a programmer, and a big ball of anxieties. I am a knitter, an occasional crocheter, and sometimes I think about embroidery. I am also pretty boring.

Last year I was really excited about this, with detailed goals and pretty pictures. This year... I’m in somewhat of a different place, um, emotionally? I am actually having a hard time getting myself to knit at all lately.

I’m gonna try to do this thing, because it was fun and because doing things is good and because maybe I could muster up some motivation. Wish me luck?

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NaKniCroMo Day 31: How Did You Do?

Well, let’s go back to the my goals post and see.

“First, and most importantly, my goal is to finish as many as I can of the pictured projects.”

Two and a bit out of 4. Not great, but not bad:

Paradise Apples was first, and my favorite.

Pepperberry Love was knit entirely this month, from skein to useful wardrobe item.

Leighton House Handwarmers had an annoying ribbing that got me stuck for ages.

And

Star Wars Sweater did not get to participate. Maybe next year.

“I won’t finish all of them, but as long as I finish at least one, knit on at least one of these every day, and not get distracted by other things, I’ll consider this a success.”

Done, done and done. I guess I succeeded.

I had some non project goals, of course:

Organize the stash was somewhat done. I have a drawer and a shoe case full of yarn. Plus some mess still hiding in the closet, I guess.

Fix up the living room. I’ll spare you pictures of the mess. Not At All done.

Next week i can go back to knitting whatever I want! Hurray! Gonna knit on my birds and bicycles sweater, which will not be finished any time soon but is exactly what I want to knit right now.

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NaKniCroMo Day 30: Final Thoughts

Well, my goal was to finish things, and I did finish two projects this month, and setting a goal likely did help me pull through some of the more tedious parts. But the first one was exactly what I wanted to work on the time, anyway. Some projects just need the right frame of mind, I guess?

I have restarted the ribbing on this goddamn mitten, like, six times. I have wished for nothing more than to knit in something fun and non demanding. I won’t finish it by tomorrow, obviously, so it didn’t even do any good.

I need to figure out a better system, because I do want to finish stuff occasionally. But by the end of the month I really missed my project freedom. Something to consider for NaKniCroMo 2020?

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NaKniCroMo Day 27: WIP Wednesday

Finished the cowl on Sunday. Wore it on Monday. There were many unweaved ends hidden inside, because weaving ends is for April :p.

I then proceeded to come home Monday evening feeling spectacularly crappy and did very little knitting since. The two-color ribbing on this mitt is not helping, either. I really wish I included my pigeons sweater in this month’s allowed knitting - it would have made a much better sick knitting.

This second mitt will not be finished this month. At least I have one warm hand. And a warm neck.

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NaKniCroMo Day 20: WIP Wednesday

So I’ve pretty much given up on the photo challenge, but I am still keeping up with my goals so WIP Wednesday is still on. This week I’ve been working on a cowl, and it’s unfortunately only half finished after a week of knitting, so not much hope for finishing more than 2 projects this month. Then again, there are two more weekends ahead, so maybe.

I have done exactly none of the non-knitting goals I’ve set, and have yet to feel the urge to rectify that. Ah, well.

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NaKniCroMo Day 13: WIP Wednesday

I pretty much skipped this entire week because I was tired. It happens. Though I should find another excuse to show off my cat sometime.

As of this WIP Wednesday I am done with the shawl (let’s just say weaving ends and blocking is for April, ok?) and casting on the cowl, which is honestly more progress then I was expecting! Woo!

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NaKniCroMo Day 6: WIP Wednesday!

I skipped yesterday, because, as I may have mentioned, I am a very boring person. But never mind that, because today! is! WIP Wednesday!!!

And I am almost done with the my shawl’s second wing.

There is still the border to do, but if I finish the wing now I’ll have the whole weekend to work on it, which means I might actually finish this with enough spare time to do at least one other project this month.

Also, look at it! I love this shawl.

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NaKniCroMo Day 4: Tools of the Trade

I have a lot of stuff in different places, mostly because I lose them or forget where I put them or that I even had them to begin with. I Have several sets of interchangeables, both wood and metal, and I use them for almost everything because otherwise I’d lose a needle mid-project all the time. I have several little bags of knitting notions all around. Mostly, I have a mess.

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NaKniCroMo Day 3: Your Craft Corner

Yeah, I don’t have one. I’m working on it - I have all the furniture needed for a cosy living room with an armchair just for knitting, waiting for me get off my ass and put it all together. I have vague plans for a crafts room. But all that requires that I somehow gather some energy and motivation, which isn’t really happening.

So, for now, I have this. A warm bed and a cuddly kitty.

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NaKniCroMo Day 2: Meet the Maker

Hello. C’est moi. My name is Noa, I’m 30 years old, programmer by day and a really boring person by night. I love knitting and I also sometimes crochet, and I rather dislike talking about myself.