Coeur de Loup

The past three months have seen a burst of creativity from me, so much so that I was rather too busy to talk about it here. But I'm taking time today to catch up on things I've been meaning to do, and so, here is a belated creativity update.

Click to embiggen this pivot table:


[Image Description: A pivot table, showing I was creative for nearly 100 hours from July through September. It's divided by category, and within those categories, by project. The categories are Crochet, Knitting, Smallweb, Writing, and Other.]

And folks, that's not everything! I didn't time myself on the FFXIV Write entries, which took at 30-60 minutes (or more!) a day while I was writing them.

I also didn't track the time spent updating the theme/layout of my Neocities site, where I host my Final Fantasy fan scripts. That took weeks of work. The bulk of the layout is done; I just need to do something about the Table of Contents popover on Mobile because it doesn't render properly. Might just hide it on mobile, dunno.

For crafting: I started some projects and abandoned them. Some are frogged already; some I intend to frog and start over. There's also some in the works that I do intend to finish someday, just, ahahahaha. I do have startitis at times!

Here's photos of some finishes I had!

[Image Description: A quick crocheted bracelet. It's orange in fingering weight yarn.]


[Image Description: A knitted amigurumi of Pascal, from Tangled. He's perched on the Knitting with Disney book, and you can only see his two right legs - which is good, because his left legs haven't been done yet, but from the angle you can't tell he's missing them.]


[Image Description: A white crocheted coaster. Round, with two triangles that form kitty ears.]


[Image Description: A quickly made fish coaster, in seafoam green cotton yarn.]


[Image Description: A trio of small knitted pumpkins: one orange, one white, one yellow.]


[Image Description: A crocheted tablet stand in flowery colored yarn. It's holding up a Kindle Fire tablet.]

Both smallweb September and the current round of communal_creators have been big boons to my creative output. I'm working on a fairly medium sized coding project now, more ambitious than my other sites. It's going well! I'm having fun! I sorta fell off it for a week with video games and crafting, and I feel a bit awkward about the former. Yes, downtime is important, but at the same time, I feel like I am not progressing if I just play games. I guess I've changed from the girl who got addicted to FFXI because of the feeling of progression there.

I also wrote a post in communal_creators, thinking aloud about what I consider to be creative (or, what "counts" for Communal Creators and Get Your Words Out). For most of the year, I didn't count journal writing for GYWO because it didn't feel like enough effort was put in for it to "count". But then I considered a master craftsman - they can do the basic stuff (and even not so basic stuff!) easily because of all the practice they've had. Am I not a craftsperson with journal writing? I think I am. So I'm going to start counting it. This should really increase the number of days I report for each month in GYWO.

About the hoodie - I meant to finish it by my birthday. Then I thought maybe by Halloween... no, Thanksgiving... okay, maybe around New Year? Folks there is so much to do on it! And I had a colossal mistake with it that required ripping out 8 rows, so I'm irritated and it's in timeout. I'm not sure I'll ever finish it. But I will try.

So that's been my last three months. Heckin' creative! Let's keep it up.