mocp catchup

More photos for the Month of Craft Photos project.

Day Ten: Your Craft Bag

Day Eleven: A WIP

Guys, look! Look how close that is to actually being a completed sweater body! It’s not the cardigan in three weeks I was expecting, but I finished a huge chunk of the knitting for this sweater while I was away for work, which is super exciting. I’m working on the sleeves now, which definitely go faster (78 stitches is WAY fewer than 300), hoping to get this done so I can move on to other things.

Day Twelve: A Crafty Gift

Socks that Laura gave me for my birthday last year. The gift of handknit socks is a truly excellent one, and I love these (and wear them) an awful lot.

Day Thirteen: Inspiration Indoors

For this, I took a photo of my project notebook. I am a person who always has a notebook with them (usually one of these), and I tend to go through a new one every few months or so. Because of this, I have a separate one that I use to keep track of my crafting projects and ideas.

It’s got graph paper inside to make charting/sketching easier, and is nice to have because I have something I can go back to when I want to recall ideas I had, or exactly what I did with a particular sweater size modification, or what my gauge was for something.

more mocp and a sweater update

More Month of Craft Photos, and a sweater update.

Day Four: Inspiration Outdoors

I spent a long time trying to figure out what I wanted to do for this prompt, and ended up settling on the idea of architecture. I find that when I look away from the obvious inspiration of “other people’s crafts,” the things I’m drawn to most are often old-fashioned and structural – suits of armor in museums, castles with detailed stonework, older architecture with lots of little decorative details.

Which I guess, in a way, is still “other people’s crafts.”

Day Five: Notions

My second set of darning needles. Until I bought this set, I didn’t realize they actually came in sizes – I was totally shocked when I opened the package and these tiny needles fell out.

Now that I have them, though, I’m finding them incredibly useful. While working on my Paulie cardigan, I’ve been testing out the Russian join rather than my usual methods for weaving in ends, and the tiniest needle is perfect for doing that with fingering-weight yarn.

Speaking of my cardigan, a progress photo. It’s actually even longer than this, now – I’m up to eleven stripes on the body, and I think when it’s finished it’ll have either eleven or twelve. I cannot wait to try on the finished body and start thinking about sleeves.

month of craft photos

I’m not a big person for photo-a-day challenges, but one of the bloggers I read, Andi, has started a Month of Craft Photos challenge for February, and I’ve decided to play along.

(In a very low-commitment sort of way. I’m not going to be able to take or post a picture every single day in February, but I plan to take a photo for every prompt in the challenge, and post them in batches when I can. The point of this for me is fun and a little thinking outside the box with my photography.)

Day One: You in Action

It is really, really hard to take action photos of yourself while you’re knitting. I was hoping for something that looked a bit more in motion than the picture I finally decided on – I was actively knitting while I took this, but the picture feels a bit posed.

Day Two: Craft Tools

As much as I like to flirt with other mediums, my go-to crafting tools are definitely knitting needles. This is how I “organize” my ever-expanding circular needle collection – note the euphemistic quotation marks; my system is one step up from a Big Bucket ‘O’ Needles – in their packages, tucked into the front of a binder.