Okay, maybe some crochet

Afghan small

The perfect vacation project...

...hand-dyed wool in the colours of the landscape that surrounds me...

...a pattern I designed myself when the internet let me down...

...good company and good conversation to crochet to...

...all combined in a finished result that I love more with every few hexagons I add.

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Time maelstrom

I keep beginning posts, and things whirl away from me and they never get finished and posted. I need to tell you about:

  • books (reading)
  • books (made)
  • books (selling)
  • layouts
  • my course next year
  • my summer project
  • and maybe some crochet...

See you later!

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My freedom: quirks

Shimelle challenged us today to blog about our quirks - those things we love and find inspiring that other people just don't seem to get.

It occurred to me that the thing that most people in my 'real' life don't get is the very thing that brings most of us together in my internet neighbourhoods.

Making stuff.
Kel's cat sleeps
Most of the people I meet on a day to day basis just don't think that making stuff is fun, cool or even normal. I find it very hard to explain that I spent the weekend with a bunch of people playing with art stuff. Most people I know just wouldn't get why I've spent the last two days working my fingers off working on another one of these. But you do, right?

Yep, that's us, we're quirky!

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