Textileophile

 hi friends! It's, again, been almost a month since I last posted.  bad blogger, bad blogger! I've been up to things, making stuff, reading, playing video games.  The usual.  The Tour de Fleece started yesterday! V. hype! I suppose I'll start where I left off last time?  I was making a hexie bag for my friend, Amara.  Welp, I finished it and sent it off and she loves it! I'm.. I won't say that I'm done making these things, cause they're fantastic, but I was sort of making it to get through it, rather than enjoying the process particularly. The temporary aida cloth that I bought for the cross stitching was a pain in the ass to remove from the fabric.  It was painful and difficult.  If I do this again, which you know me, I probably will, I'm going to look up a better removable cloth. There was some knitting, and in fact I went to the local yarn store in Sacramento with Zac last weekend.  The shop is called Rumpelstiltskin's and it was fantastic.  I got