The cooler months always find me longing to pick up my crochet hook and stitch the short days away. Sometimes I have large projects in mind, other times I’ll find something small to make. This year, I’ve decided to participate in the Stitchwell Season’s Feelings Make Along (it’s free!) hosted by Vickie Howell.
The Season’s Feelings Make Along offers an opportunity to track your feelings and make (crochet or knit) Granny Squares that will be connected into a scarf with the six yarn colors you’ve assigned to a set of six feelings.
Similar to a temperature blanket, but with emotions.
As soon as I decided to dive in, I raided my yarn stash and found five colors I thought could work well together. Then, I asked my eldest daughter if she had any sage green or turquoise in her stash. The beautiful blue in the center of the below photo is her contribution to this project.
Total cost: $0.
While participating in the make along projects (this is the second this year, my first) you also have access to patterns and how-to videos as well as workshops and Zoom meetings (think Stitch and Bitch).
There is also a corresponding forum that members can participate in that allows you to upload photos and communicate with other members about your project and comment on theirs. It’s similar to a simplified social media feed but only featuring kind people who are also passionate about mental health, self-care, and fiber arts.
Imagine that?!
The make along stretches from November to the end of January and offers plenty of flexibility to skip days or tailor your project to whatever works best for you. The goal is a no pressure project in community with others who are doing the same while we all navigate our way through the holidays (and all the feelings they bring).
I began my tracking on November 1st and have planned a ten week tracking system in my journal.
I’m enjoying checking in on my feelings and keeping track of them, even when a day comes through as largely sad/vulnerable in the middle of a joyful/peaceful/powerful week.
I’m planning to join my Granny Squares and make my border at the end with whichever color/feeling was most prominent throughout the ten week period.
Wanna join me? There’s still plenty of time, if you’re interested, and the mental health make alongs are always free!
How’s creativity manifesting in your life right now? Any works in progress (WIPs) or inspirations brewing as the seasons slowly shift around us? I’d love to hear all about what you’re up to! Please leave a comment below and/or a link to what you’re working on if you have one!
Happy Crafting!
Onward,
Melissa
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Gorgeous work! I also just love how you find these very specific online communities that inspire creativity and form bonds – you really make me think about how I could be using the internet differently 😉 I appreciate you taking us along for the ride.
Thank YOU for coming along for the ride! I long for the early days of the internet when we were making real friendships based on common interests instead of our current status of everyone being an armchair expert and requiring perfection on publication. I believe it was you who said once that we have to work to recreate the communities we wish to exist in online. I’m doing my best 🙂
I LOVE that idea and also the colors you chose! It will be a beautiful piece with such meaning. <3
Isn’t it a fun project?! I’m so glad to have found it and the wonderful fiber craft community!