Textileophile

I've been crafting a lot in the week and a half since I posted last.  Most of  the things I did I actually foreshadowed in my last post.  Socks, spinning, finishing stuff.  So, let's get on it. In finishing stuff, I finished my sweater! And then knitting attacked. I don't know if you can tell.  You, a person who also has shoulders.  But there's something not quite right about the shape of this sweater.  It's got a long narrow top.  and most people aren't shaped like that.  In fact, I didn't even notice until I was all the way to the end of this, but the picture on the pattern showcases what's wrong with the sweater. As written, the collar area is gapey.  It's terrible.  Here, I tried it on for you: Look how stupid that looks.  Stupid designer. A friend on discord took a few ganders at it and said instead of ripping it out (my first choice) that I should take out the top 3 or so repeats of the raglan shaping and put the collar in there. And I did a fe

I feel like I am going to look back at this time in my life and feel a sense of nostalgia for it.  Life is good here.  The routine is good.  I don't really like Zac being on rotating shifts for the foreseeable future, but the money is good and it's mostly 8 hour shifts anyway, so he's getting a lot of down time even if it's not days off. Yeah, you heard that right, the day shift supervisor position is likely off the table for now.  They are just simply too understaffed.  Welp.  It makes for good job security, that's for sure. As for stuff going on in my life, I've been overseeing the backyard landscaping, and womp womp, poop on me, I don't have a picture.  But it's not done yet anyway.  It's somewhere in between.  Today the pergola went up! The rest of the yard is plants and mostly mulch, but we're having a pad of concrete poured for a shed.  That's happening early next week.  Then.  Then I promise to get a few photos! And for the thing you a

 I debated not posting at all, but it has been a month and I don't want to leave anyone hanging. And I'm probably about to say something like "I don't have an enormous amount to share" but what I really mean is "I didn't take very many pictures of the things I have to share"-- also, my focus has shifted a lot in the last few weeks and it's really difficult to encapsulate it all in a single blog post.  And that makes me want to not even start, but that just makes it more difficult for future me.  I do try to be nice to future me, she's nice.  she thinks fondly of past me, which is current me. Moving on. I haven't worked on my cross stitch really at all in the past month.  It's there, haunting me.  But I don't really miss it.  The season of vanilla knitting and reading is upon me and I am powerless to stop it.  I wouldn't want to.  This is one of the best seasons. I suppose I have to start from the beginning.  about a month ago