#a tangled skein

[piplupod]

got a little lost in the sauce 😔

#i tried to wind the messed up skein into a ball but it ... did not work DBHDKSL #the skein is super tangled bc i messed it all up #at some point i was like... pulling the project through the middle of the skein 😭 #anyways im gonna attempt to unwind Everything and then wind it into a ball #less rushed this time fhdkdl #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[antiv3nom]

they should make a rolling-up-a-ball-of-yarn that is not the most frustrating task of my entire fucking life

#random ramblings #RAHHHHH ITS SO ANNOYING #THIS SKEIN ONLY HAD ENDS COMING FROM THE CENTER #SO ITS GETTING SO TANGLED

[brooklynislandgirl]

[FMK: Reimagined.] Three people, but no names. Someone you've stolen for. Someone you've hurt to help. And someone you'd murder yourself before letting anyone else do it. //Tall dark stranger with a bone condition not matching her vodka shots but probably enabling them... they need to stop meeting like this.//

Three of a Kind || Accepting {{ tagging: @riggsanity & @mynameisanakin & @lokitheliesmith for reasonsTM }}

The question is almost too softly spoken, and if Beth were inclined, she could have pretended not to have heard it. She doesn't do that often but it is something she's employed to distance herself in the past. This is not the first time she has met her mysterious friend, and likely it will not be the last. But what memories does her friend dredge up? "One of the people I miss most, mostly due to being cross country from one another. We used to play all kinds of board and card games. The goal wasn't to win or lose, but to make the other person laugh an' we used to cheat each other elaborately. I really should write or call him sometime. Maybe even give back those little plastic hotels I still have in my undergarment drawer. Not to mention the fact that I've eaten more than half of the fries he ever ordered, even when he got enough to share. And the shirts I took. And the beers he smuggled out of my fridge that I took back late at night while we watched the tide roll back out under the moonlight." She would swear on this mounting bar tab that her Texas still has at least one of her deeds tucked in his boot or in those curls. She wonders where Martin is. If he's found himself like he needed to so that he wouldn't be swallowed up by his own grief. Some of the light that she'd always held onto had dimmed the day he'd left and she's all the poorer for it. "One I've hurt to help is my..." apprentice. The waif of a youth that turned up on her doorstep those few years ago, rattling bones and death in every wet, congested breath. All she has to do is close her eyes and those blue eyes, the golden waves cutting across his sharp bones, he is alive and thriving and smiling at her shyly. It had taken every ounce of her will power to eventually let him go so he could find his place amongst the Traditions. Where she champions Life, he is the other side of the coin and she couldn't teach him how to be a Thanatoic. "Friend. He's a recovering addict, and he was really sick when he sought my help. There were days where death might have been a mercy, and the curses that rolled off his tongue in that bayou accent of his...I can't even begin to repeat. But I know that transformation was emotionally, physically, an' spiritually excruciating." She's quiet for a time. Maybe this friend was only going to have two memories from her before they hit last call. Maybe because the third answer is the hardest. For so long it would have been so easy to contemplate patricide. That she'd be the recipient of the Admiral's last undeserved breath. But that would be breaking her own kapu imposed by Teanoi; take no pleasure in killing. and if Beth were being honest? It might be the happiest moment of her existence.

But that puts her in mind of the other road she doesn't ever stop to consider. She'd once used all of her considerable talents and power to make the arduous journey to xer not-quite-native homeland in search for a bloom that would ease xer misery. She'd done it for love. And perhaps this is why she'd been turned back by that realm's all-seeing Guardian. If she could not heal xer one way, then Beth could only offer the second, perhaps lesser choice.

What was it that was said? Only you could kill your God? "The third...they say...has an adder's tongue, quicksilver and honey in xer lies. They say...Xe is the source of primordial chaos. Nets and spiders and wyrding. But I see xem as... fire and family, of ephemera and stories. Xe is a harbinger of change, of transformation." Of love, hers being enduring, asking nothing of xer but to be. "If xe has to die? Wishes it after everything? Then I can only resign myself to being xer handmaiden in that, too."

#Mahalo!Slinky <3 <3 <3 #Down til the Dark|Riggs and Beth #Like A Memory in Motion|Anakin and Beth #With a Tangled Skein|Loki and Beth #death tw #addiction tw #grief tw

[tenth-sentence]

She was on to something here.

"Incarnations of Immortality: With a Tangled Skein" - Piers Anthony

#book quote #incarnations of immortality #with a tangled skein #piers anthony #on to something

[punemy-spotted]

To the person who wound this ball of yarn: what the actual FUCK.

#yarn #crochet #fiber art #the center pull is tangled #the side pull is tangled #i have never seen a ball of yarn so full of knots in my life #why would you do this to anyone #i have spent hours cutting and frankensteining this skein of yarn together because I cannot use it otherwise

[countthelions]

Adding some blues and greens to this beautiful shawl 💚

#it's looking so!! good aa!!! #pattern wise ive got two more repeats of the colorful brioche #but imma knit until I run out of the mini skeins so might end up with a lil mini section up top #I'm reading cowboy books while knitting today #the first one was a sweet fella named hawk who got tangled up in a right mess of revenge #who full on did the 'I'm washing me and my clothes' meme at one point #and my current read is a marshal solving a murder that's just become TWO and iTS REAL GOOD #knitting #shawl knitting #cinnabar by andrea mowry #knitblr #lionknits

[gengarpng]

Started winding bobbins for my thread hoard and lord this shit sucks.

#every other skein tangles and it BITES #Life posting

[malapertmarquess]

It’s a bloody good thing I don’t crochet for money; I’ve spent 3.5 hours over two nights just trying to untangle and wind a full skein of yarn...

#personal #I have yet to figure out how to wind a twisted skein into a ball without getting it hopelessly tangled in the process #I really hope my brother likes this hat I'm making him

[criticallyacclaimedstranger]

I failed at winding two skeins of yarn tonight and tbh that was more upsetting than infected cauliflower-headed people on TV.

#how is it that some skeins are just IMPOSSIBLE #i tried by hand #i tried with my tools #third skein went okay #spen the entire episode detangling the second #first one is still tangled #and i have two more skeins to fuck up #le sigh

[botchallthethings]

Good: my swatch looks excellent. Extremely pleased with my color choice and design and colorwork in the round with large, evenly sized yarn balls is far more pleasant than my previous experiences have been with flat knitting or a tiny, wildly splitty ball paired with a normal ball.

Bad: my swatch is a full inch+ too small (about 3 cm)

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I have no experience knowing how to size up. That seems a pretty sizable difference? I guess I also tend towards knitting pretty tightly. But how many needles to size up? I suppose I could use the larger set I have and see if that’s too big, and then if it is, go to a craft store and get a goldilocks pair.

#the good news is that while the yarn in the store all seemed way softer and infinitely beyond my spinning capacity #balled up it's really not that different in texture and thickness #from my homespun that is #so the difference is not as stark as i imagined #though the fineness of individual strands certainly is #as well as the number of them #(can't imagine doing more than two ply for the forseeable future #also now i finally get why yarn swifts are a thing #because when working with store-wound skeins ball winding was a cinch #but with the hanks that fancy yarn comes in? gotta tension that stuff out if you want a chance of tangle-less winding #and let's just say using my knees got tiring

[whats-in-a-sentence]

She knew she had a long and satisfying role ahead of her as Lachesis.

"Incarnations of Immortality: With a Tangled Skein" - Piers Anthony

#book quotes #incarnations of immortality #with a tangled skein #piers anthony #job satisfaction #fate #lachesis #i am begging piers anthony to learn how to write women #or just learn how to write in general #pain.jpg #was the real villain satan or the fact a middle aged woman didnt look like a bikini model

[piplupod]

take a grocery storage crate found by a dumpster and a bit of duct tape to fix 'er up, and BOOM ! yarn storage !!!

#i cleaned the crate off dont worry fjdksl wiped it all down w some cleaner and rags #i still have yarn to store but that all the proper skeins! the rest is mainly balls of yarn that I untangled and wound myself #when the thrift store was open they gave me this big plastic bag of a tangled mess of yarn fhfkdl #it was honestly rly fun to spend a couple hours untangling it and winding everything into balls !! #but those don't store so nicely like the skeins do so 🤔 they might just have to sit in a box or smth hmmm #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[brooklynislandgirl]

@lokitheliesmith​

Birthdays are a time of celebration, as is the point when the old year dies and the new one begins. Somehow it all seems perfectly natural that this should be the way of Loki’s birthday. And while she’d offered tokens of affection for Jól, which she most likely mangles the pronunciation of, she’s always felt bad for kids born so close to the holidays that their own day gets swallowed up by it. And as always, Beth spent a lot of time considering what gift might be appropriate, and fretting over every choice she makes. This year she has decided to go with something simple, almost traditional. New boots for a new journey. A new cloak-pin in hopes that it brings warmth regardless of where they travel. An emerald ring whose setting is more modern, dating back to nearly a hundred years before, but whose stones have been in the family for far longer. And lastly perhaps the most questionable one. A relatively uncomplicated bangle, suitable to almost any presentation Loki cares to give. But the wood...the wood of it could easily be drawn from Beth’s blood, from her bones. The kapu Koa wood native to her islands. Rare outside of the mainland, and once believed to be worthy of only gods and their human descendants. She doesn’t make a fuss about the presentation, either, but leaving them wrapped besides xer other things, along with a little note expressing her joy to have xer as a friend and companion, for another year that she will cherish like the last.

#lokitheliesmith #The Subtle Knife|Loki Friggjarson #With a Tangled Skein|Loki and Beth #Birthday wishes a little late because I can't figure out for the life of me how to submit to your blog at the moment

[tenth-sentence]

Niobe consulted with Chronos, who remembered the future.

"Incarnations of Immortality: With a Tangled Skein" - Piers Anthony

#book quote #incarnations of immortality #with a tangled skein #piers anthony #consultation #fate #clotho #time #chronos #future #memory

[smudgekip]

it's all fun and games until the yarn tangles...

#kip talks #i'm very upset #i was working just fine until the center of the skein pulled out and knotted #now the whole thing is fucked #i had to cut it and i really fucking didnt want to #i've been tangling and untangling for 3 hours #this is going to fucking haunt me all night #i just wanted to be creative #why does the universe hate me

[elgaberino-mcoc]

spreadsheet cleanup SIBYL DVORAK (aka Gypsy Moth aka Skein)

ComicVine: 97 total issues Fandom: 54 unique appearances 0 variants apparently 0 video games

Psychokinetic tangler mutant, member: Night Shift, Thunderbolts, Femizons, Masters of Evil

medium priority for @MCOCwishlist 

- Other Gabe

#Sibyl Dvorak #Gypsy Moth #Skein #Night Shift #Femizons #Masters of Evil #fabric #textile #telekinesis #tangle #constrict #suffocate #mcoc class mutant #female #villain #spreadsheet cleanup #ToBrF2 #Super Drama