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100 Day Challenge

8/4/2017

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Currently, I’m working on making patterns for many of the items I’ve made.  I absolutely love having an idea, finding the perfect yarn, and putting this idea into an actual garment or accessory.  Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as much fun to translate stitches into words as it is to knit and crochet yarn into garments. Putting my stitchy-thoughts into intelligible words is surprisingly challenging and, thus, something I’d rather procrastinate about.  But I’d really like to share some of my patterns so I must get to it.  I realized I needed something to keep me stitching, but wouldn’t be too intense so as to keep me from my pattern-writing. (Below is the Betsa Poncho.  This is one of the patterns I need to get to work on.)


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The solution came from Elise Blaha Cripe.  Elise has a podcast called Elise Gets Crafty.  I appreciate her sharing her creative process and enjoy her thoughtful interviews.  (You should really give her a listen.)  In episode 101, “On the 100 Day Project”, Elise and designer Allie Lehman discussed the challenges they set for themselves (Elise did 100 days of pep talks and Allie did 100 days of paintings) and how they felt during and after the completion of the challenge.  While I enjoyed hearing about their 100 Day Projects, I wasn’t motivated to start one myself.  However, Elise and Allie discuss their challenges further in podcasts number 119 and 125.  Both felt the experience was sufficiently rewarding to commit themselves to another 100 Day Project.  They also discussed how they limited their projects to prevent them from being overwhelming.  This intrigued me and after thinking about how to keep myself motivated, I decided to start an 100 days of crafting challenge for myself.  This way, I’d be able to keep crafting and stay active on social media, but not take too much time away from my pattern-translations and additional obligations.  You can read more about the project on Elise's blog here.  


So, my challenge is to engage in 100 days of Creating.  I will make something every single day for the next 100 days.  The projects will be small, allowing me to look at new patterns and learn new skills, but not occupy my entire day.  I started today, August 5 and will end on November 12.


So, here is my first project.  I made a few flowers.  Do you like them? Which is your favorite?
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Rosa
8/5/2017 05:32:18 pm

I like the purple starflower with the fuzzy gold petals!

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Eva Landeo
8/5/2017 07:04:45 pm

Hahaha! That is Eva Luz Perez's favorite too!

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