Monthly Archives: December 2019

Being free to return to knitting my socks, I instead dived into sorting my second sack of beads. Being 8/0s, I’m almost done with the lot, even if the weight is similar or maybe a bit more. Right now I’m sorting through the six (!!!) translucent shades. Having said that, sorting them hasn’t been too dire since I made a… Read more »

Yeah so, it’s raining. There’s a lot of raining. The forecasts don’t put it anywhere near cold enough to snow this far south — but there’s gonna be even more rain. Yay. ¬¬ At least it wasn’t so bad when I was doing my Post Office run. Last night, on the other hand? Torrential to the point of ‘wahey, where’s… Read more »

I spotted these sad little hanging baskets on our way out of the movie theatre this afternoon. I’m pretty sure that they are actual flowers to look so sad, but yeah. Sad. Less sad was the whole getting to see the new Star Wars before anyone else we knew, hee hee. I won’t say anything besides that, but if anyone wants… Read more »

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 »