Days 5 & 6 – 30 Day Challenge – Knit, Crochet & Tarot

Knit –

Day 5: How long did it take from the time your learned how to knit, to finish your first project? – Good question. If you’re talking when I first learned – whenever I figured out how to use the crochet hook to bind off. If you’re talking about when I taught myself to cast on – I don’t remember, but not long, I can promise you.

Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve knit? – The last one. As in, I like them all

Crochet –

Day 5: How long did it take from the time your learned how to crochet, to finish your first project? Good question, it was too long ago.

Day 6: What is your favorite piece that you’ve crocheted? – Same as above. Tho I’m pretty fond of the blanket I made for my parents (Rosa’s afghan on Ravelry, in my projects page). It now sits on one of the couches in my living room. So I see it every day.

Tarot –

5. When and where did you give your first reading? Probably to myself. Or a friend. Again, it was a long time ago. When I got back into it, right here in my house, for myself. On my living room floor.

6. What was the first spread you learned? Celtic Cross.

Challenges not (completely) forgotten

I was so busy on the 5th that I sorta forgot to post the challenges.  I will again double up later today.  I was up way too late last night, must avoid that tonight.  So I will go now.  Did I mention I’m also using my phone at the moment?  I am.  Night all.

Day 4 -30 Day Knit, Crochet and Tarot Challenges

Yet another installment of the 3 30 Day Challenges I’m participating in.

Knit – How did you learn how to knit? – Knitting deserves to come first in this set. I learned to knit when I was 11, after I watched my grandma knitting and asked her to teach me. Over time (after I reached adulthood and tried to knit without her casting on first), I realized the problem I had in her never teaching me to cast on. I had to do that myself, about 5 or so years ago.

Crochet – How did you learn how to crochet? – Knitting came first because, in reality, this came second. After asking grandma to teach me to knit, I saw a crochet hook in her stuff (you need them when you knit, ya know. A lot of it is just for casting off, ending your work, whatever.), and decided to pick it up and “play” with it. I pretty much taught myself to crochet, and once I was sick of making scarves and blankets all the time (about 12 years ago or so), I decided it was time to teach myself to read a pattern. Wow, the world opened right up after that.

Tarot – How long have you been reading the Tarot? – I read tarot for about 5 years before I got rid of my decks. It’s about 5 or 6 months since I got back into it.

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Day 3 – Knit, Crochet & Tarot Challenges

Yup, if I’m going to do all 3 challenges, I might as well do them all in the same post!

Day 3: Do you have any other WIPs (works in progress)?

Knitting – Yes & no – I have another project that I got frustrated with and quit working on, but if I’m going to finish it, I’m going to have to frog it and take it apart. Also, I have a possible yarnbombing project that I could finish. As soon as I find the right yarn, I may be doing the commissioned Wingspan on a different set of circular needles.

Crochet – Yes. I’ve got a larger version of the baby blanket I’m working on, in reclaimed yarn from a blanket of mine that got a hole in it, and I want to get the crocheted necklace I found on Ravelry figured out, or another version thereof. Or maybe I should just do my own?

3. Do you have more than one deck that you use, and, if so, do you have a favorite? If not, why do you like the deck you have chosen?

Tarot - No. Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, I no longer have the other decks I once had. Though I would LOVE to have another Rider-Waite deck (hint hint to anyone that cares). I use the Winged Spirit Tarot as I had the strongest connection with that one of the 3 I used to have, and I have a thing for angels.

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30 Days of Tarot – Days 1 & 2

30 Days of Tarot – Days 1 & 2
Ooooh loooooook….they have it in tarot too. Since it’s already Day 2, I’ll just do both in this past….

1. What introduced you to/got you involved in Tarot? – Since I had started on an alternate spiritual path (from Christianity), about when I was 18 – didn’t delve into it much until I was in my 20’s, trying to figure out who what and where – but I needed a “divination tool” – not like someone said I did, but I wanted one. And I was drawn to the tarot. I deviated from the alternate path back onto Christianity, and now I’m sorta back onto the alternate one – I don’t really consider it an alternate path, I just no longer prefer to define myself as any one thing, my beliefs come from a lot of different directions, Christianity is justRi one of them. And you’d think it would have to be a big one, b/c I was after all raised Lutheran. :-\

2. What was your first deck and why/how did you get it? – Pretty sure it was my old Rider-Waite deck – I had 3 by the time I was “born again”, all of which I tossed – Rider-Waite, Winged Spirit Tarot and a Native American deck. I want the ones I don’t have back….:-(

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30 Days of Knitting and Crochet – Day 2

30 Days of Knitting AND Crochet! – Day 2
Knitting – What is currently on your needles? – Currently what’s on my needles is Wingspan on Ravelry (the second will take you to my profile.)

Start of Wingspan

Crochet – What is currently on your hook? Gentle Breeze, a Leisure Arts pattern, my favorite baby blanket pattern & not the first I’ve done for this person, who requested it for a friend.

Start of Gentle Breeze

Also on my mind, getting the crocheted necklace I want to make figured out, I’ve got an order for Wingspan for someone I met at a Halloween party (order made when I raved about the pattern), and trees I have to embellish and hopefully find a way to sell. I love when crafting is the first thing on my mind when I get up in the morning!

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30 Days of Crochet AND Knitting

Double whammy for you, my friends – I will do the 30 Days for both Knitting and Crochet – since I do both! Here goes!

Day 1: What was your first finished project?

Crochet – A name blanket (oddly enough) – which I only call it that b/c I put my name in it! So, was it the first colorwork too? It had many different panels, that I did in many different directions – it was 20+ years ago, so I don’t have any pictures from then, but it is entirely possible that I could take some, b/c I’m pretty sure I still have it! Somewhere :-\

Knitting – It would definitely have to be a scarf. I wouldn’t have any pictures of that, either. :-\ But it was much more recent, as I may have known how to make the stitches since I taught myself to crochet, but I never really was that interested in getting it right until about 5 years ago. When I finally taught myself to cast on.

I won’t be doing another one, for the 2nd, right now – it’s just after midnight, so I have all day to catch up!

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