Fandom Snowflake: Challenge 8 Personal Win

[fuzzyred]

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.



At first I wasn't sure what to put for this one, and then I actually thought about 2021 and a few things came to me.

First (and this is one I almost forgot about), in January 2021, I participated in the Fresh Starts bingo fest on allbingo. Not only did I manage a blackout bingo on my first card, I started a second one and managed a decent amount of fills there too. All of what was written was original content, and I think they were all poems, but I think it's the most writing I've ever done and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I also used quite a variety of poetic forms, many I've never used before, so it was good to stretch my skills in that way too.

Second (this one I'm super proud of and was my first thought) I made a temperature blanket last summer. I crocheted one square for every day of June, July, and August, changing colours depending on how hot it was. I then stitched all the squares together and made a border using the last two days of August. I'm so happy with how it turned out! It was a lot of work, but I got it all done, and I did everything start to finish myself, with my sister consulting on colours to make sure everything played nice together. I have a fews posts with individual squares and patterns, but I am still aiming to make a giant post with the finished product, if anyone felt like seeing (or replicating) the whole process.

Third (on a personal front) I got a therapist this year after hemming and hawwing for quite awhile and it's helping. I managed to find a good one and she's given me some really good resources, so I'm glad I decided to take the step of seeking professional help to straighten out a few things in my head and gain some skills I've been missing.

Comments

[muccamukk]

That temperature blanket sounds amazing! I'd love to see pictures when you've put the final post together.

[fuzzyred]

I can let you know when I do. If I'm lucky (and don't procrastinate) I may be able to get it done by the end of this month or early next month.

In the meantime, square pattern 1 can be found here, with step by step pictures. The other square pattern is the next post.

[arthur_p_dent]

I’m glad you remembered about your poems. I just had to go back and re-read them all, and refresh my memory on which ones made the top five. =]

[fuzzyred]

:) I'm glad you found them worth rereading.