Good morning, CMK! ❤️🧶 We have officially reached DAY 21 of our 30 Days to ONE Anniversary Engagement Challenge! THREE WEEKS! 🎉🔥 We're getting into the home stretch now, and every qualifying day is bringing us closer to our October 17th celebration. 🔥 MY DAY 20 TOTAL — 115! Yesterday I finished with... 🔥 115 ACTIVITIES! ✅ Another 100+ day in the books! And considering everything happening around here right now, I'll happily take my 115. 😂 Now I need YOUR number: 👇 DAY 20 — _____ activities Whether you had 200, 115, exactly 100 or didn't quite make it, please give me your total anyway so I can keep tracking everyone's progress. ❤️ TODAY'S GRATITUDE — WHAT HAS CRAFTING TAUGHT YOU ABOUT YOURSELF? We've been talking a lot this month about the people and things we're thankful for. Today, I want you to think about something a little different. 🧶 What has crafting taught you about YOU? Maybe you've discovered... ❤️ You're more creative than you thought. 💪 You can figure things out even when they seem impossible at first. 😂 You have considerably LESS patience than you thought—especially when a stitch drops! 🧶 You actually CAN learn new things at any age. 💡 You're willing to experiment instead of always following the rules. ❤️ You love teaching and helping other people. 👏 You're capable of making things you once looked at and thought, “I could NEVER make that!” Or perhaps crafting has taught you something completely different. 🤔 THINK BACK TO WHEN YOU STARTED... There was probably a time when something you do without thinking today seemed incredibly difficult. Your first cast-on. Your first circular knitting machine. Your first panel. Your first complicated pattern. Your first project you were actually brave enough to show somebody. 😂 Sometimes we spend so much time looking at what we still don't know that we forget to look back and see how much we've already learned. And that's something worth being grateful for. ❤️ 👇 SO TODAY I WANT TWO THINGS: 1️⃣ Your Day 20 activity total

Good morning, CMK! We're checking in for Days 19 & 20 of our 30 Days to ONE Anniversary Engagement Challenge! 🎉🔥 And first, I need your weekend numbers! 🔥 MY SATURDAY TOTAL — 108! After not making my 100 on Friday, I was determined to get another qualifying day on the board Saturday. And I did! 🔥 Saturday — 108 activities! ✅ It wasn't one of my huge days, but you know what? 108 counts exactly the same as 208! 😂 Sunday, as usual, was my day off from the community for church, God and family, so that will be another one of my under-100 days. Now I need to know how YOU did! 👇 Please give me both of your totals: 🔥 Saturday / Day 18 — _____ activities ❤️ Sunday / Day 19 — _____ activities Remember, I want your numbers even if you didn't reach 100! ❤️ TODAY'S GRATITUDE QUESTION We've talked about people we're thankful for, but today I want to look at this from a different direction. 🧶 WHAT HAS CRAFTING GIVEN YOU THAT YOU NEVER EXPECTED? Think back to when you first picked up yarn, learned to knit or crochet, or bought your first circular knitting machine. Did you ever imagine where it might lead? Maybe crafting has given you... ❤️ Friendships you never would have made otherwise 🧶 A creative outlet that's completely yours 💪 Confidence to try things you never thought you could do 💰 A way to earn some extra money 🎁 A way to bless other people with handmade gifts 🤝 A community where you feel like you belong 🧠 New skills—and maybe a few you never expected to learn! 😂 Or simply an excuse to own an absolutely unreasonable amount of yarn! For me, crafting has become so much more than making things. It's led to businesses, teaching, designing, creating, craft shows, YouTube and, of course, this community and all of YOU. ❤️ I certainly couldn't have predicted all of that when I first learned to knit! 👇 SO I WANT THREE THINGS TODAY! 1️⃣ Your Saturday activity total 2️⃣ Your Sunday activity total 3️⃣ One thing crafting has brought into your life that you're grateful for And then we're heading into DAY 20! 🔥

A friend of mine gave me all of this beautiful yarn for my birthday and I love them all. I just hope they all run through my machine

Good morning, CMK! 🧶❤️ We're on Day 18 of our 30 Days to ONE Anniversary Engagement Challenge, and today I'm reporting something I know some of you have already had to report... I DIDN'T MAKE MY 100 YESTERDAY. And that's okay. I've done four days of craft shows this week, while still trying to keep everything else going, and I've been putting in 16+ hour days. Yesterday, there simply weren't enough hours left in me to get to 100. 😂 That's exactly why we built some flexibility into this challenge. We don't need 30 perfect days. For those of us who started on Day 1, we need 26 out of 30. So Friday will be one of my days under 100, and today I start again. 🔥 👇 NOW LET'S HEAR YOUR RESULTS! How did YOU do yesterday? 🔥 DAY 17 / Friday — _____ activities Whether you had 150, exactly 100, 73 or 10, share your number below. This challenge isn't about pretending every day went perfectly. It's about seeing what we can accomplish when we make a consistent effort to participate in our community. ❤️ TODAY'S GRATITUDE — WHO ENCOURAGED YOUR CREATIVITY? Since October is our month of Thankfulness & Gratitude, today I'd like to make this one a little more personal. Think about someone in your life who encouraged your crafting journey. Maybe they taught you to knit or crochet. Maybe they bought you your first supplies. Maybe they're the person who always admires what you make—even when YOU can see every mistake. 😂 Maybe they encouraged you to try something new, sell your creations, buy that knitting machine or simply keep creating. Who is that person for you? ❤️ FOR ME, IT WAS MY DAD. Yesterday marked 23 years since my Dad passed away, so I've been thinking about him a lot. My Dad always encouraged me to be creative, try new things and follow my passions. Looking at everything creativity has brought into my life, I can't help but be grateful that I had someone who encouraged that part of me instead of telling me to be more practical or stop dreaming so big. He's not here to see where that encouragement eventually led, but I'm very thankful he gave it. ❤️

I know it's not CKM, but I had to share with my community! I FINISHED it! My first crocheted blanket. My husband has already claimed it. I took the picture before blocking it.