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Today has been primarily about chilling out and knitting. I’ve got the body of a monkey toy made and stuffed, and have made a bit more progress on my scrap blanket. Well, and I’ve been playing Pokémon again too, since Z has. Of course, my version of ‘play’ seems to be ‘in the same battle for many hours trying to… Read more »

One of the things that Z got me for Christmas was a ‘Sonic Spork’ — which is to say, a spork done up like a sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who. So what’s the first thing I do with it? I had a random itch on my head, so I used the spork to stab it. I wasn’t going to ever… Read more »

… is me getting tonnes of books, obviously. >__> Well okay, really it’s about making a nice day for the kids, and they certainly had that. And y’all, they are such amazing people. They were up early, but didn’t get us up. They didn’t hurry us once we were down (though Smalls did go fetch my breakfast to expedite things… Read more »

After a few false starts (better known as bits going amiss and having to be remade), I finished Mrs. Claus this morning. I decided that, besides which kit I’m am going to do next (results of which are already spoken for by Littler), I’ve decided to get a start on my ultimate scrap blanket. Basically, all the odds and ends… Read more »

I can report that Santa was finished last night, and came out well good! This catastrophic mess you see before you is the inside of Mrs. Claus. Because it requires use of intarsia, I’ve got a couple of strands hanging out in addition to all the random ends. Mess aside, I think there’s a good chance that I can get… Read more »

Yus, all of Santa’s assorted parts have now been knit, which means I’m starting the sewing up process. I guess that means there is a real chance that I’ll complete it tonight, which is nice. Having said that, there’s also fiddly touches to embroider on, and that’s not my strong point. Still, if I don’t try, I won’t get better,… Read more »

Yes, of course, it’s a picture of me. It’s always a picture of me. *chuckles* But I think that it does a good job of catching my ‘mood’, better known as ‘completely exhausted and in pain’. I’ve been feeling it really badly all week, but today has been especially rough after it took literal hours for my brain and to… Read more »

As today was the girls’ first day off of school, I taught them how to do paper chains. I also incidentally finally got Smalls to get her head around how to use the tape dispenser, so that was a lovely bonus. *chuckles* But yeah, I ended up spending most of my morning either dispensing tape, or teaching childings how to… Read more »

Oh okay, that’s exaggerating. Slightly. But it’s pretty freaking awesome when one reaches into the centre of their skein of wool, and manages to get the inside end on the first go and on its own, rather than part of a clump. It certainly made winding it into a cake an easier task; now what remains is doing gauge squares… Read more »

Most of the time, doing little toys is a nice. This time, I did a dumb and tried to do it on my tiny circular. Toy shaping requires a lot of increases and decreases, and I did myself no favours trying to do it in limited space. I can’t seem to find any other 3mm needles, even though I’m sure… Read more »