craft fear! it is a thing
I'm being crap at updating my journal with status of the October Project to Do All the Things. Today is no different! Instead I will tell you some random stuff Y/Y?
Firstly: This weekend at a craft fair I was cornered by a merkin designer. That's not a bad thing necessarily--people who design merkins need to make sales like everyone else--only I was in desperate need of a cup of coffee, and so lacked the brain cells to gracefully extricate myself from her sales pitch/clothed merkin demonstration. Which I really felt like I needed to do, because right behind me was our friend, one of those curious guys who asks a million super-specific, Charlie-Rose-style questions about everything. The thought of him grilling this woman about merkins--or worse, deciding I'm an expert and grilling me for the next hour, still without coffee, augh!
There should be a safe word you can use at craft fairs in situations like this--like when you get caught staring at someone's hand-crocheted vaginas and your slightly stunned expression is mistaken for interest. Or when your mom is five feet away and you'd rather not engage on the topic of latex underwear or whatever. Craft fairs, seriously, why such a minefield of social awkwardness?
(Also, I know--the safe word is "No thank you, I would not like to buy a decorative flap made of dominoes to hang in front of my crotch today." I'm just saying, there should be a simpler one. Like, "rosebud," or "othello." Also a good practice: getting plenty of caffeine before going to the craft fair.)
In other almost entirely unrelated and still completely random (!) crafty news, I am in love with this sweater:
I just bought the pattern, but I'm not letting myself buy yarn for it until I've reduced my surplus yarn pile and finished some other projects. (I started a scarf the other night using up random scraps of yarn. It looks great! I'll post photos later this week.) Anyway, ILU, sweater! Please wait for me!
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Firstly: This weekend at a craft fair I was cornered by a merkin designer. That's not a bad thing necessarily--people who design merkins need to make sales like everyone else--only I was in desperate need of a cup of coffee, and so lacked the brain cells to gracefully extricate myself from her sales pitch/clothed merkin demonstration. Which I really felt like I needed to do, because right behind me was our friend, one of those curious guys who asks a million super-specific, Charlie-Rose-style questions about everything. The thought of him grilling this woman about merkins--or worse, deciding I'm an expert and grilling me for the next hour, still without coffee, augh!
There should be a safe word you can use at craft fairs in situations like this--like when you get caught staring at someone's hand-crocheted vaginas and your slightly stunned expression is mistaken for interest. Or when your mom is five feet away and you'd rather not engage on the topic of latex underwear or whatever. Craft fairs, seriously, why such a minefield of social awkwardness?
(Also, I know--the safe word is "No thank you, I would not like to buy a decorative flap made of dominoes to hang in front of my crotch today." I'm just saying, there should be a simpler one. Like, "rosebud," or "othello." Also a good practice: getting plenty of caffeine before going to the craft fair.)
In other almost entirely unrelated and still completely random (!) crafty news, I am in love with this sweater:
I just bought the pattern, but I'm not letting myself buy yarn for it until I've reduced my surplus yarn pile and finished some other projects. (I started a scarf the other night using up random scraps of yarn. It looks great! I'll post photos later this week.) Anyway, ILU, sweater! Please wait for me!
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comments. Comment here or there.