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Today has been a Monkey’s Paw sort of day. I got in some beads that I wanted… but also knocked over half a dozen of the pots of beads I was sorting, one at a time across the day. I’ve managed to catch and repot most of them, but sitll… rude. Then there was the matter of the new dryer… Read more »

We were down at the church for Small’s class performance. This year, it was carol singing. I can’t claim to have any particular experience in that realm, but I did my best to sing loudly and decently. I’ve not really managed much in the way of productivity otherwise. My work focus was non-existent, but I’m not gonna beat myself up… Read more »

For my knitting science, I decided to do a provisional cast-on. The thing that I’m fiddling with has a join between cast-on and cast-off edges, so I wanted to have live stitches to graft with. It’s inadvertently festive, because green wool happened to be the nearest bit of scrap that I could use. Beyond that, yes, the sort continues. I… Read more »

I continue my sorting thingie. I still don’t have quite the number of pots out as colours (one pot has both gold and brown), but it’s moving in the right direction. I’m also accidentally shooting beads all over my desk, so that’s going to be fun finding out where they got to. I’m also knitting something that, provisionally, I plan… Read more »

With the election results being what, sadly, I figured would be the case, the time intervening has been about keeping mind and heart and soul quiet and still. Which basically amounts to light knitting, and sorting some 11,000+ beads by colour. And they’re small beads, which means I need to use tweezers to pick them up. My arms are a… Read more »

While I have zero faith that today’s election is going to make anything less of a shitshow here, I still went and did my part. That was exhausting in its own way, since yanno, as said, shitshow. Add in the fact that Smaller’s class had their nativity play as well, and I am deep-in-the-bone exhausted now. I keep randomly letting… Read more »

Probably a surprise to nobody, I finished the knitting on the jumper this afternoon. Now I have the job of weaving in 1,000 pieces of rainbow spaghetti. Sigh? Sigh. It shouldn’t be too bad once I get properly stuck into it. I’m already making some decent headway down the body, thanks to the internet helping me find the right method… Read more »

My knitting goal for the day was to get the first rainbow on the second sleeve done… job done! It certainly encourages me to try and get as much done as possible, time permitting. For this exact second, I’m scratching a hole through my leg. I managed to gouge my ankle with the side of a fingernail the other day,… Read more »

… and it’s pleasing how much a difference having the best tool for the job makes. While I don’t expect to get the second sleeve completed quite as quickly, it leaves me optimistic that I can get it done sooner rather than later. And in fit-checking, Smaller is very happy, so hooray for that. Beyond that, been nursing a headache…. Read more »

My new needle came in fairly early, which means I’ve been able to resume making some progress on my knitting. I’ve not buckled down like I ‘should’, but that’s fine. I am not under any obligation to be constantly and consistently productive. That goes double when I am trying to make sure that I am resting and waiting for this… Read more »