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Colours definitely not true to life, but done and dusted!

I swear I have to reinvent the wheel every time with French knots. I need three hands!

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tag games! i love these.

tagged by: @ellanarose, @disgruntled-lifeform, and @indrid-hot, for which i'm very grateful.

currently reading: i spent many years reading constantly for work (i'm an editor--maybe at some point i should do an intro post) and sometimes have a hard time reading for pleasure, so i often find myself picking through several books at a time.

so i'm reading women's work: the first 20,000 years by elizabeth wayland barber, which is interesting but also frustrating--it was written in the early 90s, and you can tell. she has some real specific (and gross) ideas about gender, beauty, and labour that show up in the text, which makes reading it a lot less enjoyable. she's also surprisingly quick to tell us that ancient people would have thought about things, which is obviously unknowable, and i don't love that, either.

it's interesting enough that i'm still reading, but it's a little slow.

i'm also reading new ways to kill your mother: writers and their families by colm tóibín, and rereading connie willis's the doomsday book, which is my favourite book ever in the world.

favourite colour: blue, with green and purple as very close seconds.

last song: we had the local classical station on in the car on the way home from sheep and wool yesterday (post forthcoming, omg), but i couldn't tell you the exact song, mostly because we were too busy talking about wool!

last movie: we don't watch a ton of movies because i have commitment issues and get a little stressed out by having to commit to two hours of something, so the last movie we watched was the d&d movie. i recently found out that my wife has never seen ever after, though, so i think that's likely to be the next.

sweet/spicy/savory: it's savoury, spicy, sweet for me, though i have to be careful with spicy because i get wicked bad reflux. i'm largely indifferent to sweet, though--i'll eat it if it's there, but would much rather have fancy cheese than fancy chocolate.

currently working on: haha. 😅 ok well. orange jumper for my terrible child, socks for my wife, a shawl for my wife, a little honeycomb brioche cowl that i might rip out (again) because i think i'd like it more at a looser gauge, and some tea towels (on the loom). shockingly, i'm mostly between spinning projects, because i wanted my bobbins free in case i came home from sheep and wool and needed to start spinning immediately. there's one bobbin that has maybe five grams of some lovely gold/red rambouillet on it, but i think that is i'm not planning to ply it, I'm spinning too thin, so i think that's getting pulled out, and I'll either respin it and enough twist that i can ply it, or toss that bit and start over, spinning it thicker this time. and i'm probably about to start seven more projects because if who i an as a person.

tagging: @binchickencrafts, @bronzeagecrafts, @cottonkhaleesi, @yarnandink, and @knittingferns, but only if you want to

#smartest raccoon i know #tag games

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Second snail is bigger and less interested in exploring everything but absolutely still a curious lil thing, shell’s too big for them but that’s ok they’ll grow into it eventually.

Pretty sure I have enough left over for one more (cutting the yarn chicken pretty close to the wire though!) Watch this space. 🐌

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Washcloth tester with mercerised Egyptian cotton that I originally bought for the socks and realised what a silly idea that was.

Forgot how much illusion knitting is a “trust the process” thing. This tester was good; my vision is sound, the pattern I’m cribbing off is for a baby blanket in three panels so after gluing two copies of the chart together in order to get a whole star and cropping everything to the vague dimensions I wanted, it looks fab.

Will say I still think I should go down another needle size or two to get the vertical gauge spot-on and to make these potential washcloths more recognisably washcloth-y and next time I won’t miss out the bit of third star that goes in the blank space either.

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Back at it but more pastel this time 🌈

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Trying out one of my new Christmas present tension rings and suddenly the way everyone else crochets (mine usually looks like a left handed knitter is trying to crochet) is much easier to do!

Also starting to understand why all those tik tok crocheters can craft at the speed of light now.

From the original pile of colours (22) we’re now down to 8 to finish this thing off, not bad!

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It blocked well enough, I’ll just have to live with having miscalculated and made the wrong size.

It’s cute! It’s warm and squishy! It knit up surprisingly fast! I will definitely make this pattern again!

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