Raeyn[Dot]Com

I’m not sure what went wrong when I was trying to take this picture, but I’m digging it. I did gratuitous amounts of drilling to make another prototype for a custom order in limbo… as in, still ‘negotiating’, but wanting to show that I can bust out the goods. Work was okay. Past that… stomach is playing up and being… Read more »

I’m nearly free of the heel flap, and all the mistakes I’ve made. Like… mistakes I should not have made. Having said that, another one of my friends is in a similar place on her sock knitting, and has also been having ridiculous errors, so I declare that it must be The Season of the Witch (if you don’t know… Read more »

I don’t know where my brain has scarpered off to, but it took my ability to follow a knitting pattern with it. I have made several rather hilarious errors, many of which have required multi-row froggings. But it’s fine, really. Outside of raising my voice slightly at Smaller for ignoring my request that she give me a few seconds, it… Read more »

I have had this spot by my lip for the past week, and it’s really, REALLY hard to stop myself picking at it. I’ve mainly managed to today, but it has been stupid difficult. I amused myself by avoiding fixing my knitting by instead drafting two more cross-stitch patterns today. I’m happy with the results, and hopefully other people will… Read more »

The weather has been very tempermental today. It started out a bit humid and gross, but a few rainfalls and clouds moving in, bit of temp drop… it’s just about lovely now. 🙂 Had a nice visit with mum; I missed last week, and thought I was going to only get a part-visit today. Smalls needs to go to the… Read more »

I had a random urge earlier to organise my sewing box. There’s a tray on the top, and then a large empty space that previously contained a tangle of various embroidery threads. Now they are bagged up by colour, and each bag labelled with contents (and translation to their colourways in DMC, as it’s DFN and Anchor in the box… Read more »

I was annoying Batman by holding him like a wee baby, and Z took a few pictures. You can see how much he suffers, ha ha. I can get away with it by and large, a few minutes here and there, and Z can do the same with Poison. Our cats definitely have slightly preferred humans. 🙂 I have, just… Read more »

Summer is having what I hope is its last gasp. We’ve got the a/c on, blinds closed, and it’s more or less tolerable inside. It’s supposed to relent after tomorrow, but I’ll believe it when it’s gone and done. Still, I look forward to getting desk space back in the near future (for the gap between now and December, at… Read more »

So. Yesterday, I took a compass. I drew a circle to my specifications. I started transcribing curve to cube. And then today, I felt myself compelled to start colouring. I actually finished, but I think I’ll keep that image a bit more hidden. *grins* I got it in my head earlier that I could monetise my efforts so far, and… Read more »

Smaller decided that she wanted to try her hand at cross-stitch. I found an easy pattern, talked her through bits… and well, I had to be available to constantly rethread her needle and verify she was going in the right place, but it was an excellent start! I ended up helping finish off the yellow section (she picked the colours)… Read more »